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BIBLE-BASED.
The Assemblies of God Fellowship is a Bible movement. Our
founding leaders placed the doctrine concerning the Bible
first in our Statement of Fundamental Truths. God's Word is
foundational to everything we believe, preach, teach and practice.
Though heaven and earth will pass away, God's Word will live
forever. The unchanging instrument of the Holy Spirit and
our infallible guide—God's inspired Word is the seed
of the world harvest, bread for the spiritually hungry and
the light that proclaims God's grace and deliverance to a
world that is lost and bound in the darkness of sin.
SPIRIT-EMPOWERED.
We depend on God's divine power because our mission depends
on miracles. As Pentecostals, we know that just preaching
and publishing the message is not enough. Hearts must be opened.
Lives must be changed. The Church must be established. These
can only be established by God himself. The Holy Spirit imparts
spiritual gifts and abilities to God's messengers. And the
same Holy Spirit that inspired God's Holy Word illumines its
truth to the minds of hearers and opens their hearts to respond
to its message. We totally rely on the Holy Spirit to give
life to the message we preach and to cause growth from the
seed we sow. The Spirit convinces of sin, brings assurance
of sins forgiven, imparts peace through understanding, and
guides into all truth. A Pentecostal mission acknowledges
and depends on the Holy Spirit to empower our message so it
can bear the fruit God has promised.
CHRIST-CENTERED. The
focus of the Pentecostal message is Jesus Christ. John the
Baptist proclaimed him the Lamb of God who takes away the
sin of the world! Jesus… God who became man, showing
us the character of our Creator and Heavenly Father, is the
Redeemer of lost humanity the Savior of the whole world. He
offered up His life to redeem sinful mankind. Only through
Him do we have peace with God. After a sinless life, He rose
from death that whoever believes in Him could have everlasting
life. He is preparing a place for us and He has promised to
come again for us so we can be with Him for eternity. Missionary
Richard Bernhard Johnson saw more than 1.8 million come forward
for salvation in crusades in Brazil. When asked what he believed
accounted for the great numbers who responded he replied,
I always exalt Jesus Christ! Our message to this lost, sinful
world is like that of the missionary apostle Paul, none other
than Christ, and Him crucified.”
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