THIS WE BELIEVE
Bible Doctrine
Twenty-two statements describing the biblical doctrine of Family Community Church.
FAMILY COMMUNITY CHURCH
This We Believe
Our Bible Doctrine
- 01
The Holy Trinity of the Godhead. One God manifested through three persons: Father (Yahweh), Son (Yeshua), and Holy Spirit.
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The Biblical Creation. The Omniscient El-Shaddai (Almighty) spoke the world into existence and created mankind from the dust.
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The closed Canon of the (66) Books of the Holy Bible is absolutely inerrant, unadulterated, and authoritative in its original autograph.
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The Absolute authority of the Holy Bible in the local church governs over any other document.
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The Incarnate Word of God became flesh in the person of Jesus the Christ.
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The divine conception (seed of the Holy Spirit), virgin birth, and sinless life and character of Jesus, and His authority over all.
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The exemplary life, expiatory death, bodily resurrection, glorious ascension, and imminent return of Jesus for His Bride, the Church.
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That eternal salvation comes by regeneration, through faith alone, by confession of the person of Jesus Christ through Holy Spirit baptism.
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The ordinance of water baptism by immersion as an outward sign of Spirit baptism, which produces an inward work of God’s grace and peace.
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The ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, in memory of His vicarious death, burial, and resurrection.
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The Holy Spirit’s gifts are to be operative in the lives of the saints (holy ones) under the control of the Holy Spirit, only as He gives gifts to His body.
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Worshiping Jehovah/Elohim is the focus on keeping the Sabbath Day (Saturday) holy (day of rest)! Jesus came to be the saints’ rest. “The Lord’s Day” is Sunday. We worship and rest in Him.
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The divinely appointed Bishop/Pastor has been given full biblical authority over the local parish church.
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The Bible authorizes male clergy leadership only over His Church; females are not to rule over males in the home or the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I Tim. 3:1 · Eph. 5:23 · I Tim. 2:12–13 · I Cor. 11:8–9 · I Pet. 3:1
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God visits and rules His local church through His divinely-appointed Bishops/Pastors; not a Board of Directors, Moderator, Board of Trustees, or Board of Deacons, or any other group or document. It is the Bishop/Pastor who gives direction from God’s Holy Word to the church body.
I Tim. 2:7 · Acts 20:28 · Heb. 13:7 · Heb. 13:17 · I Pet. 5:1–3
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We embrace the autonomy of the local church, as was the practice in the first and second century believers, in all its affairs; and not controlled by any associations, and/or conventions.
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We hold to the sanctity of human life as a gift from God, and we reject abortion. Life and death are in God’s hands.
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We reject euthanasia (mercy killing) for any reason.
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The Bible order of the family consists of marriage between a male and female only, for propagation of the human race – no matter what the culture does; the Holy Church is not governed by culture, but by the Holy Bible.
Gen. 1:26–27 · Gen. 2:18 · Rom. 12:2 · Matt. 19:4–6 · Acts 5:29
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The Bible teaches that the husband is the spiritual head of his wife, and both are to submit to each other within the marriage union. Furthermore, only heterosexual relationships represent biblical marriage between a husband and a wife (male and female).
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Homosexual practice is sinfully perverted as taught in the Holy Bible. The divine norm for marriage is monogamy, and this has been the norm for marriage since creation.
Gen. 1:27 · Gen. 2:24 · Lev. 18:22 · Lev. 20:13 · Rom. 1:26–17
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We reject the so-called “Bible Codes” philosophy, for the Word of God is not hidden.
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