01/10/23 // What Does This Church Believe // Neal Garratt

This is an abreviated copy of Neal's notes. Please do see look at the full copy available in the links at the bottom.

What Does our Church Believe?

We are part of New Frontiers  which was started by Terry Virgo and was part of the growing Charismatic Movement in the UK during the 1970’s and 1980’s. The emphasis was on the word and the spirit and the gifts of the Spirit being manifest in meetings and daily life – New frontiers grew and now has nearly 2000 churches globally.

Interview with Terry Virgo giving the history of New Frontiers from the beginnings to the present day and is worth a listen for everyone!
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Link to the Evangelical Alliance’s Statement of Faith, which we agree with:
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What is our vision statement?

We are a worshipping community who love Jesus and serve his mission. To build a church from which we will have multisite congregations.

What is our purpose Statement?

We exist to worship God and encounter his presence, committed to advancing his Kingdom through local Church communities, caught up in mission, here, and to the nations.

So what do we Believe?

We believe in The Bible as God’s authoritative word to everyone.
We believe in the Trinity – Father son and Holy Spirit
We believe in Salvation through Jesus alone
We believe we are born to worship God
We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as distinct from salvation
We believe in Baptism in Water on confession of your faith
We believe in the gifts of the Spirit as vital in our Church life and recognise the five fold ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers in the Church today.
We believe in the Virgin birth
We believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
We believe in the Priesthood of all believers
We believe in The Church as a local body of God’s people to bring justice and mercy in the local area to help the poor and those in need.
We believe in local and international mission.
We believe that Jesus is coming again to create a new Heaven and New Earth.

This list is not exhaustive by any means but gives a good idea of what we stand for!  So just to expand some of these for you

The Bible - is God’s word to us. We want to be transformed by God’s word not just informed- it is life to us

The trinity – One true God who lives eternally in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The same in substance, equal in power and glory.

God the Father – One true God -Sovereign – Creator, Sustainer of life, he rules, reigns redeems and will eventually judge the world. Multi- faceted God – Jehovah – I AM

Jehovah Jireh – The Lord will provide
Jehovah Rophe – The Lord is our healer
Jehovah Nissi – The Lord is our banner
Jehovah M’Kaddesh – The Lord who sanctifies
Jehovah Shalom – The Lord is our peace
Jehovah Tsidkenu – The Lord is our righteousness
Jehovah Rohi – The Lord is our Shepherd

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Interview with Terry Virgo:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-profile/id1188653078?i=1000621163085

Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith:
https://www.eauk.org/about-us/how-we-work/basis-of-faith

Full copy of these notes:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L-37aVUcG5Fqp-2l_2lDNTfoTCU1qcl-/view?usp=drive_link

Whiteboard MindMap:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15mdB1nUD58EKcyP