© 2006-
1334 15th Street SE
DeMotte, IN 46310
(219) 987-
© 2006-
1334 15th Street SE
DeMotte, IN 46310
(219) 987-
We believe the true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ’s Agape love, which is greater than any differences we possess and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.
We believe worship of God should be:
Spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
Inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to music in our worship.
Instructional. Therefore, our services are designed with great emphasis upon the anointed teaching and preaching of the Word of God.
Fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God and God’s revealed Word to man.
We believe that there is only one true and living God who has chosen to reveal Himself in three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins through His blood by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
We believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ committed two ordinances for obedient observance in the local church: 1) Baptism and 2) The Lord’s Supper. Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Baptism does not constitute salvation, but is a public profession of faith that a person has already experienced salvation. The Scriptures teach that Jesus gave the elements of Communion as symbols of the sacrifice of His body and blood as atonement for the sins of the world. These two ordinances are to be observed as administered by God’s family until the return of Christ.
We believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to those who ask and that they are valid for today. After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.
We believe in the personal, visible, and pre-
© 2006-
1334 15th Street SE
DeMotte, IN 46310
(219) 987-