LIFE ARK PRAYER CENTER MINISTRIES

JESUS IS THE ANSWER  




 

 

STATEMENT OF FAITH

 

We believe the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired and only infallibleWord of God. They are to interpreted according to their context and purpose and inreverent obedience to the Lord. 2 Tim. 3:16, 17 and 2 Pet. 1:19.

We believe in one God, Creator of all things, immortal, invisible, existing eternally in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. He is perfect in love and righteous in all His ways. Gen. 1:1, 1 Tim. 1:17, 6:16, 1 Pet.1:2 and John 1:1.

We believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, who is true God and trueman. He was born of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Holy Spirit. He suffered death in our place to pardon our sins. By His stripes we are healed. His blood is the means of the atonement between God and humanity once for all time. He conquered death, rose bodily and ascended to the right hand of the Heavenly Father where He intercedes for us. Through His blood we are eternally secure. Jesus Christ will return at a time appointed by the Heavenly Father to receive to Himself His blood bought church that it may be with Him forever. Anyone who repents from his/her sins and receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and believes He rose from the dead will be saved and have eternal life. John 1:1-14, Luke 1:39, 2 Cor. 4:4, 1 Pet. 1:24, Romans 10:13, 14:24, 8:34, John 3:16 and Heb. 10:4.

We believe the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead who at the moment of salvation seals and indwells the believer and that the Holy Spirit gives power to every believer to live a sanctified (Holy) ;life. He gives His gifts to each believer according to His will for the edification, exhortation, comfort and benefit of the body of Christ. It is the will of God that every believer be filled with the Holy Spirit. Eph. 1:13, 4:30, 1 Cor. 6:19, 12:7, 1 Tim. 3:5, Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:38, 39.

We believe God by His Word and for His glory freely created man and woman in His own Image as the crown of creation so that they could have fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, they rebelled against God. They thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners in thought, word, and deed. Everyone who by faith receives Jesus is born anew of the Holy Spirit and thereby becomes a child of God. Gen. 1:26-28, Ps. 51:5, Gen. 3-4, Rom. 5:12, 3:9-18, John 1:12 and John 3:3.

We believe the church is a growing organism which consists of all believers who have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The church is the body of Christ. Jesus is the head. The church Praises and Worships God and preaches the gospel and makes disciples of all nations. Eph. 1:22, 2:21, 22, Col. 1:18, 1 Cor. 12:12-26, and Matt. 28:18-20.will be

We believe in water baptism as a command to the church symbolizing to the world one has died with Jesus and has been raised with Him to a new life. Matt. 28:19, Rom. 6:3, 4 and Pet. 3:21.

We believe in the observance of the Lord’s Supper as an ordinance of the church symbolizing the broken body and shed blood of Jesus Christ as the New Covenant between God and believers. Luke 22:19 and 1 Cor. 11:17-34.