OUR BELIEFS

Our Beliefs

We believe in:

1. The Trinity – God has revealed Himself in three persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
2. The Divinity of Jesus – He is the full expression of God in bodily form; He is both fully God and fully man.
3. The person and work of the Holy Spirit – He empowers believers for witness in the world and therefore validates the faithful preaching of God’s word with signs and wonders and various gifts of the Spirit.
4. The inspiration of Scripture – All Scripture is God-breathed.
5. The finished work of Jesus on the Cross as the only grounds of salvation for all men, regardless of whether they are Jews or Gentiles; This salvation work is appropriated by faith alone.
6. The physical and visible return of Jesus to the Mount of Olives.
7. The local church is the biblical Body of Christ and all believers in Jesus are required to assemble at one of these.

Biblical Israel Beliefs

1. We believe the Bible attests to God’s unique and enduring calling and election of the Jewish people as an instrument of world redemption, which is still relevant and active today in the restoration of Israel in their ancient homeland.
2. We believe that this modern-day restoration of Israel is evidence of God’s faithfulness to His eternal covenant made with Abraham.
3. Our stand with the Jewish people, therefore, is founded upon the eternal covenants of God as described in God’s word (Genesis 12; 15, etc.) and not upon ‘End Time’ prophecies.
4. We do recognize, however, that we live in a season of fulfillment and restoration for Israel that has been unfolding over modern times and had been foretold by many biblical prophets (e.g., Ezekiel 36:22ff).
5. We do not embrace the notion that different covenants can each lead to salvation; Rather, we rather believe that there is only one way to God through His son Jesus Christ and the New Covenant which he established.
6. We offer our support to the Jewish people irrespective of their spiritual standing (Romans 3:28), yet we also recognize the significance of the local and growing Body of Messiah in the Land of Israel.
7. We honor and emphasize the Hebraic roots of our Christian faith grounded in the Old Testament, even while we strongly caution Gentile Christians against coming under the law or believing in salvation by works.
8. We stand uncompromisingly with the divine destiny of the Jewish people back in their Land, but we also recognize the unique and biblical calling of the Arab nations around Israel in His salvation plan for all the peoples living in the Middle East.