| BORDERLAND MISSIONS |
| ABOUT US |
We believe the only 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.
We believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to
music in our worship.
We believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our services are designed
with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us how
He should be worshipped.
We believe worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives
as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We believe in the inspiration and the preservation of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and
New Testaments, in the Majority Text, is the inerrant, inspired, infallible Word of God and
that it is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.
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 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 in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to
the earth. He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no
end. 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 Believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are
valid for today if they are exercised within the Scriptural guidelines. 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 that church government should be simplistic rather than a complex
bureaucracy, and we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead, rather than on fleshly promotion.
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 DO NOT EMBRACE: (1) The belief that true Christians can be demon possessed; (2)
5-point Calvinism (i.e., a fatalistic Calvinistic view that leaves no room for free will;
specifically, we reject the belief that Christ's atonement was limited. Instead we believe
that He died for all people, and we reject the assertion that God's wooing grace cannot
be resisted or that He has elect some people to go to hell; instead we believe that
anyone who wills to come to Christ may do so, (3) Positive confession, the faith
movement belief that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to
mans will, (4) human prophecy that supercedes the Scriptures, (5) the incorporation of
humanistic and secular psychology and philosophy into biblical teachings, and (6) the
overemphasis of the spiritual gifts, experiential signs and wonders to the exclusion of
Biblical teaching.
IN OUR SERVICES, we focus on a personal relationship with God through worship,
prayer, and the teaching of the Word of God in a verse by verse format. We seek to teach
the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to the believer's life,
leading that person to a greater maturity in Jesus Christ. We teach both expositorally and
topically.
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.
We believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to
music in our worship.
We believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our services are designed
with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us how
He should be worshipped.
We believe worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives
as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We believe in the inspiration and the preservation of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and
New Testaments, in the Majority Text, is the inerrant, inspired, infallible Word of God and
that it is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy
Spirit.
We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.
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 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 in the personal, visible, and pre-millennial second coming of Jesus Christ to
the earth. He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no
end. 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 Believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are
valid for today if they are exercised within the Scriptural guidelines. 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 that church government should be simplistic rather than a complex
bureaucracy, and we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead, rather than on fleshly promotion.
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 DO NOT EMBRACE: (1) The belief that true Christians can be demon possessed; (2)
5-point Calvinism (i.e., a fatalistic Calvinistic view that leaves no room for free will;
specifically, we reject the belief that Christ's atonement was limited. Instead we believe
that He died for all people, and we reject the assertion that God's wooing grace cannot
be resisted or that He has elect some people to go to hell; instead we believe that
anyone who wills to come to Christ may do so, (3) Positive confession, the faith
movement belief that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to
mans will, (4) human prophecy that supercedes the Scriptures, (5) the incorporation of
humanistic and secular psychology and philosophy into biblical teachings, and (6) the
overemphasis of the spiritual gifts, experiential signs and wonders to the exclusion of
Biblical teaching.
IN OUR SERVICES, we focus on a personal relationship with God through worship,
prayer, and the teaching of the Word of God in a verse by verse format. We seek to teach
the Word of God in such a way that its message can be applied to the believer's life,
leading that person to a greater maturity in Jesus Christ. We teach both expositorally and
topically.
| "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15). |
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