I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and
earth,
And in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord;
who was conceived by
the Holy Ghost,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
The
third day He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven,
and
sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall
come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost,
the holy Catholic Church, the
communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the
body, and the life everlasting.
Also we acknowledge five offices of apostles, prophets,
evangelists, pastors and teachers, as is written in Ephesians 4:11,
"It was
he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists,
and some to be pastors and teachers.(NIV)"
We believe in the 9 spiritual
gifts (including speaking in tongues, healing, and prophecy) of 1 Corinthians
12, and we practice them.
We believe that church is the Body of Christ,
and when we become a child of God by believing Jesus, we become also a part of
the Universal Chruch to which all the true Christians belong; and a part of the
body of each individual churches.
As for the Holy Communion, in this
service we treat the bread and wine not as a symbol but as Blood and Body of
Christ.
We do not celebrate Christmas in our church because there is no
records of celebrating the nativity in the Bible; and because it (December 25th)
is not historically the actual date of Jesus' birth. Also because it is a
succession of a pagan festival of "the Unconquerable Sun (Sol Invictus)."
However, since it has a traditional significance in the present days, we use
this occasion for the purpose of evagelical
meetings.
