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| Written by <a href="http://www.gracepentecostal.org/index.php/component/jevents/day.listevents/2010/02/22/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/cache/components/com_comprofiler/plugin/user/plug_cbcaptcha/modules/mod_s5_live_search/images/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=62&Itemid=138">Reverend Derek Godfrey</a> |
| Friday, 09 October 2009 18:35 |
Our MissionThe mission of Walking In Faith is a simple, yet very important one. The harvest is ripe, but the laborers are few. Therefore, we are inter-denominational and multi-cultural in our mission, seeking unity between the various true Christian and Messianic faiths. However, we seek to avoid the dangers and pitfalls of the post-modern, humanistic (all paths lead to God) Ecumenical Movement that has sprung up in recent years and the faulty (and false) doctrines that the movement seeks to force upon sincere, but unsuspecting people. We seek to unify the present-day community of believers, whether Jew or Gentile, breaking down the middle wall of partition and restoring the only true Church, the ekklesia (congregation, body of believers - i.e. “the church”) of the First Century that Yeshua HaMaschia (Jesus Christ) began when He walked on this Earth. This restoration includes a necessary return to our Jewish roots and the necessity to view all of scripture (Both Tanakh (Old Testament) and B’rit Chadashah (New Testament)) from its proper Hebraic (cultural and historic) perspective, rather than the Hellinistic/Greco-Roman viewpoint that modern Christianity espouses. The First Century church met in small groups and went from house to house breaking bread in fellowship, yet they were not separate from other groups…there was only one “church” composed of many smaller congregations. There were no denominations or non-profit (government regulated or government controlled) corporations with a multitude of different theologies and doctrinal statements. We desire to restore this First Century way of “doing church” (within the confines prescribed by the Evangelical Protestant Church), as much as is humanly possible in the 21st Century. We also seek to abolish Pharisaic Theology and Doctrine and the unscriptural Traditions of Men that accompany them. We desire to be true and faithful to the church that Yeshua (Jesus) envisioned. A church without spot or wrinkle, a church of holiness, obedient to the only one, true and living God…the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob…the God of Yisrael (Israel), Yahweh (YHVH). Again, this is a Trinitarian ministry and is not affiliated with, nor condones, the teachings of the Oneness Apostolic or United Pentecostal Church denominations (sometimes referred to as Unitarian or Jesus-only). Although we believe some of their doctrines to be unscriptural, we still believe them to be sincere followers of Yeshua with good intentions, but we cannot in good faith accept certain faulty doctrines of theirs. We are saved by grace, through faith in the shed blood of Yeshua alone.
Not even baptism is necessary to receive salvation, as some of these groups often teach. As for the formula for baptism, Yeshua commanded it to be done “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost”. When the Apostles “baptized in Jesus Name”, they were doing so in the authority given to them by Yeshua and in THE CHARACTER OF Yeshua, not by literally saying “I baptize you in Jesus’ Name”. However, we see no problem with combining the two formulas and using both phrases together. This ministry is affiliated with the General Conference of the Evangelical Protestant Church and we do all things with a Trinitarian, Evangelical, and Pentecostal philosophy based on a Hebraic Messianic understanding. Our Mission Statement
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