DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

Our Beliefs

God the Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, that He convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, that He regenerates the sinner by the Word of God, that He permanently indwells the Church and the body of each believer (baptism of the Holy Spirit), that He seals, enlightens, instructs, and guides every born-again person, and that He is efficient power for godly living, Christian service, and Spiritual worship. We define the baptism of the Holy Spirit as the act of God whereby the Holy Spirit indwells the body of the believer upon salvation and brings the believer into the family of God. (John 16:7-15; John 3:5-7; 1 Peter 1:23; Ephesians 4:30; John 14:17, 26; 1 Corinthians 12:13)

 

The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ

We believe that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and a substitution sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood. We believe that He arose bodily from the dead on the third day in the same body in which He suffered and died. We also believe that our Lord ascended into Heaven; that He is now seated at the right hand of the Father and is our High Priest and Divine Advocate with the Father. We believe that by His finished work procured for every believer Eternal Redemption, Eternal Salvation, and Everlasting Life. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4; Romans 5:9; Mark 16:19; John 3:16; John 20:27; Hebrews 5:9; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 9:12; 1 John 2:1)

 

The Second Coming

We believe in the Blessed Hope, the personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulational, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, which is known as the Rapture of the Church. We also believe in the personal, visible, and glorious return of Christ to earth with His Saints at the end of the Great Tribulation. This phase of His coming is known as the Revelation of Jesus Christ. When He returns to earth with His Saints, we believe that Jesus Christ will establish His Millennial Kingdom and will reign for one thousand years. (Titus 2:13; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; John 14:3; Revelation 19:11-21; Revelation 20:1-6)

 

The Creation and Fall of Man

We believe that man was created by the direct act of God in the image of God. We believe that man sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, are totally depraved and for those who reach moral responsibility become sinners in thought, word, and deed, and that they must be born again to be accepted of God. (Romans 3:10; Romans 3:23; Romans 5:12; John 3:1-21)

 

The Nature of the Church

We believe that the Church of Jesus Christ is composed solely of born-again people who have been called out from among the Jews and Gentiles to become the Body and Bride of our Lord. Christ glorified in Heaven is its Head and the Holy Spirit on earth is the active agent of the God-head who ever seeks to bring about within its ranks obedience to the Christ; and its chief purpose of existence is to evangelize the world and to complete itself through the winning of lost souls to Christ. (Acts 1:8; Acts 2; Acts 15:14; Mark 16:15; Romans 1:16; Ephesians 5:23-24; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13)

 

The Resurrection of the Dead

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just at the Rapture, (1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 15:51-57) and of the unjust at the end of time. (Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:28-29)

 

The Eternal State of the Saved and Lost

We believe in a Heaven and Hell: Heaven, the place of eternal, conscious joy for all who receive Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. Hell, the place of eternal, conscious punishment in the Lake of Fire for all who reject Jesus Christ and those dying in their sin. (John 14:1-6; John 8:24; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 16:11; Philippians 1:21, 23; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:10-15)

 

The Personality of Satan

We believe that Satan is a personal being, a fallen angel, prince of demons, the god of this age, the great enticer and deceiver, the adversary of Christ and His people, the accuser of the brethren, whose end is the Lake of Fire. (2 Corinthians 4:3-4; 1 Peter 5:8; Matthew 25:41; John 8:44; Revelation 12:9-10; Revelation 20:10)

 

Separation and Sanctification

We believe that the Scriptures teach non-conformity to the world for every believer; that born-again people should be separated from the world unto Christ, that it is clearly commanded of God to all believers to live their lives of separation from all worldly and sinful practices and to be holy as He is holy. We believe that positional sanctification occurs at the moment of regeneration and that practical sanctification is to be progressive throughout the entire life span of a believer here on earth. God’s provision for holy living is in the resurrection and ascension of Christ; the indwelling person and power of the Holy Spirit and the believers yielding to Him; and by the powerful Word of God. (Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 10:1, 14; Colossians 3:1-4; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17; Titus 2:14; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:16-23; John 17:17; Hebrews 4:12)

 

Ordinances

We believe that two ordinances are significant above any other that Christians are commanded to observe, namely, water baptism and the Lord’s Supper. While recognizing that water baptism has no saving merit, it is our conviction that after one is saved, baptism is the next step in order to portray to the world the believer’s union with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. It is our conviction that the scriptural method of water baptism is immersion. We believe that Jesus Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper to commemorate his death till he come. We further believe that water baptism by immersion is observed but once, and is a sign of identification, and a testimony to newness of life, but the Lord’s Supper is commemorative and is to be observed often as a memorial of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:9-13; 1 Corinthians 11:23-33)

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The Holy Scriptures

We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God, His only revelation to man, inerrant in the original writings and that it is therefore the supreme and final authority in all matters of doctrine, faith, and life. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

 

The Trinity

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-eternal, co-existent, and of one essence.

 

God the Father

We believe that God the Father is Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and is Spirit.

 

God the Son

We believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh and ever existed with the Father and the Holy Spirit. In His Incarnation He was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is True God and True Man.

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Rev. John O. Delozier, Jr.

Senior Pastor

Lighthouse Fellowship

GOD’S GIFT OF SALVATION IS FOR YOU

Salvation is a supernatural miracle. Salvation is “not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord” (Zechariah 4:6). You can experience this miracle by believing in and acting on the following, God’s plan of salvation.

 

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). “For the wages of sin is death…” (Romans 6:23). Sin brings eternal death, Hell, and separation from God.

 

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Jesus Christ willingly died on the cross as payment for our sins, but He rose from the grave, conquering death and sin. “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12). “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9). “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13).

 

God has promised salvation and eternal life in Heaven for those who believe in and live for Jesus Christ. “I go to prepare a place for you…[and] I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” (John 14:2-3).

 

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