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What We Believe

Our doctrinal position is scriptural only. Our church is based on the early New Testament Church model. We hold the home-church to be the ideal and model of scripture ... what Christ always meant the church to be. We regard the home-church model as the ONLY model of praise and worship that God ordained, specifically because it afforded intimacy, communication, fellowship, and body ministry on a one-to-one basis, with all of its members ministering according to their level of faith and knowledge of the Word, permitting EACH to be continually built up and formed according to His image and likeness according to His vehicle, the church and its ministries... strictly by the leading of His Spirit. We believe that the church is a spiritual entity only (Eph.1:22,23) and that it must be free from denominational doctrines of men and control to operate in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. We further hold that a believer cannot be both man-led and Spirit-led. We therefore reject the Constantinian church model of many catholic, protestant, and orthodox churches and their doctrines and modes of ministry and operation, although we acknowledge those born-again believers who tragically still remain in them, as our Christian brothers and sisters whom we love in Christ. We pray, as our church and ministry ideal of the raising of THE REMNANT, the church of the past and end time which the Holy Spirit has been continually raising, that they will come to obey the fullness of the scriptural command "Be ye separate...", and come out from the worldly man-churches; that they will become REMNANT people who WILL NOT walk in compromise with the doctrines, ways, or styles of men, and who WILL walk FAITHFULLY in the doctrine of Christ: salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, through the Word alone, by Christ alone. We hold this to be the only true and unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The School of Ministry, therefore, does not embrace the non-Biblical' concept of teaching the Word of God and teaching body ministry according to the Bible school or seminary models, methods and ways of mankind. We believe that the ONLY way ordained to instruct believers is through the study of the Word of God with the Holy Spirit, as Teacher (John 14:26; 1 John 2:27). We further hold to the Biblical principle that the ONLY scriptural way to train others for ministry is through discipleship with commissioning and ordination by the laying-on-of-hands, only, as led by the Holy Spirit and established by a multitude of witnesses. Although we understand the need for Biblical scholarship and receive the concept of its validity, we also acknowledge and hold the position that the college or seminary model is clearly NOT the model ordained by scripture, that it is the invention of man, and that completion of such programs with their degrees and recognitions are NOT an indication that a person should be ordained or hold a pulpit ministry. We believe that this can ONLY be determined by the anointing of the Holy Spirit on His life, as evidenced by their faith walk, their fruits of ministry, and the multitude of witnesses. The scripture says that believers are called, anointed, and appointed to ministry and church offices. We stand by this, and this alone, as the only valid model for training believers for ministry. We believer that this will be the only model for the REMNANT church in the end time.

Our doctrinal statement can be summarized as follows: we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior of the World, Yeshua Immanuel, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Rose of Sharon, Son of God, as Messiah the Prince of Peace, One with the Father and the Holy Spirit; that His Coming and Second Coming was foretold by the Old Testament prophets; that He was born of the Virgin Mary, that He died for our sins and that we are justified, purified, and sanctified through His propitiation by His precious shed Blood. We believe that He resurrected from the dead by the power of the Holy Spirit and that by His stripes we were healed. We believe that at Calvary , we entered into His death and burial with Him (Romans 6), and that through His resurrection, we are raised with Him into newness of life. We believe in the New Covenant in His Blood, the rapture of the church, the resurrection of the faithful dead and of the wicked dead, and in His imminent return for the judgment of unbelievers. We hold to the Biblical doctrines of the coming Millennial Age and the Perfect Age to follow, with its new heavens and new earth. We believe that the Bible is the unalterable, indisputable, inerrant and inspired Word of God, and that it is a divine revelation from God to man.

The School of Ministry models its training programs on the early church method of discipleship under those known by a multitude of witnesses to be called, anointed, and appointed by the Holy Spirit. We recognize the scriptural ideal for the period of study for those seeking body ministries, to be a period of three years of study. We hold to the fact that the Holy Spirit alone will teach, and that those who hold anointing of the Spirit through offices of the church (pastors, prophets, teachers, apostles, and evangelists) , are used by the Spirit of God as undershepards to share revelations of the Word of God with those whom He has placed under them. We believe that the Holy Spirit will always teach directly from the Word of God, or through others who are empty vessels for His use; that it is NOT ability or education that God uses, but AVAILABILITY. That is evident through the choosing of the 12 apostles by Christ, as noted in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus did not call 12 Bible scholars or 12 Pharisees to be his disciples, he called 12 common men. Are YOU available? God WILL use you in some capacity in carrying out His divine plan. Every Christian gets a ministry (Jer. 29:11).

WE BELIEVE the Bible to be Spirit-scribed, and therefore, the inerrant and infallible Word of God.

WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is the true Son of God, One with the Father and the Holy Spirit; in all that was spoken of Him by the prophets, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and Blood Atonement on our behalf, in His bodily resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His present-day ministry on our behalf as our High Priest and only Mediator between God and man, and that He is the same, yesterday, today, and forever.

WE BELIEVE in bringing the Great Commission, the Gospel, to all nations, discipling them in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

WE BELIEVE that for true salvation for lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary through the born-again experience, by which we become a New Creation in Christ; that we are kept by the Holy Spirit by our continued response to His Grace.... His love-favor-power to us which we cannot earn or deserve.

WE BELIEVE that sanctification and overcoming is through the Blood of Jesus; that it is a continual process in our soul-life as a work of the Holy Spirit.

WE BELIEVE in water baptism by immersion as the testimony before God and man of our salvation, as the seal of our salvation, bearing witness to our immersion into Christ's death, burial, and Resurrection for us, and in our new life in Him.

WE BELIEVE in the taking of the Bread and Wine as the testimony of the Lord's Covenant-keeping with us, and of our response to this Grace from Him, commemorating His Death and Resurrection until He comes again.

WE BELIEVE in the necessity of the Baptism-in-the-Holy Spirit and manifestation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as essential for the fullness of power to know Him; for witnessing, the faithwalk, and for the demonstration of the Kingdom here and now.

WE BELIEVE that salvation, healing, and deliverance, as well as circumcision of the heart were all obtained for us by the finished work of the Cross through Christ's Blood Atonement on our behalf; that salvation includes all of these, that they are taken possession of by our faith and faith-confession in Him, the High Priest of our confession, received as a free gift by His Grace to us, through our trust (faith) in Him.

WE BELIEVE in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; in the existence of both heaven and hell; that the truly repentant believer who trusts on Christ receives eternal life in Him, a life which begins in the present on this earth, and that the repentant unbeliever will spend an eternity of eternal damnation, as promised by the Scriptures.

WE BELIEVE in the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of Israel , for the judgment of unbelievers upon the earth, and for the coming restoration of the nations who have done well toward Israel .

WE BELIEVE in the Remnant as the one and only true church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true Bride of Christ, the "called out ones", the Philadelphia church of the Book of the Revelation; those who walk by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, by the Word and Spirit, alone. We believe that the Remnant is distinguished from all others, in Scripture, by their desire to walk without compromise, totally rejecting the traditions, ways, and doctrines of men, and seeking His Righteousness alone in compliance with the Lord's command in Matthew 6:33; that they are distinguished from others not as being special, or exclusive, nor by their perfection, but only by their desire, their desire not to compromise and to seek Him alone in all things, being obedient to His command.

WE BELIEVE in the impending Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ upon the earth.

E BELIEVE in the coming Perfect (Edenic) Age at the end of the Millennium, when God will establish a new heaven and a new earth.

 

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