What We Believe
Assemblies of God Statement of Fundamental Truths
2 Timothy 3:15-17
1 Thessalonians 2:13
2 Peter 1:21
Deuteronomy 6:4
Isaiah 43:10-11
Matthew 28:19
Luke 3:22
His virgin birth,
Matthew 1:23
Luke 1:31
Luke 1:35
His sinless life,
Hebrews 7:26
1 Peter 2:22
His miracles,
Acts 2:22
Acts 10:38
His substitutionary work on the cross,
1 Corinthians 15:3
2 Corinthians 5:21
His bodily resurrection from the dead,
Matthew 28:6
Luke 24:39
1 Corinthians 15:4
His exaltation to the right hand of God.
Acts 1:9
Acts 1:11
Acts 2:33
Philippians 2:9-11
Hebrews 1:3
Genesis 1:26-27
Genesis 2:17
Genesis 3:6
Romans 5:12-19
Conditions to Salvation
Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life.
Luke 24:47
John 3:3
Romans 10:13-15
Ephesians 2:8
Titus 2:11
Titus 3:5-7
The Evidence of Salvation
The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit.
Romans 8:16
The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.
Ephesians 4:24
Titus 2:12
The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on Christ as Saviour and Lord are to be baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.
Matthew 28:19
Mark 16:16
Acts 10:47-48
Romans 6:4
Holy Communion
The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements –bread and the fruit of the vine– is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4), a memorial of his suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers ”till He come!”
Luke 24:49
Acts 1:4
Acts 1:8
1 Corinthians 12:1-31
This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth.
Acts 8:12-17
Acts 10:44-46
Acts 11:14-16
Acts 15:7-9
With the baptism in the Holy Spirit come such experiences as:
an overflowing fullness of the Spirit, John 7:37-39, Acts 4:8
a deepened reverence for God, Acts 2:43, Hebrews 12:28
an intensified consecration to God and dedication to His work, Acts 2:42
and a more active love for Christ, for His Word and for the lost, Mark 16:20
Acts 2:4
The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues, but is different in purpose and use.
1 Corinthians 12:4-10
1 Corinthians 12:28
Romans 12:1-2
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Hebrews 13:12
The Scriptures teach a life of ”holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.”
Hebrews 12:14
By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command: ”Be ye holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15-16
Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 6:1-11
Romans 6:13
Romans 8:1-2
Romans 8:13
Galatians 2:20
Philippians 2:12-13
1 Peter 1:5
Ephesians 1:22-23
Ephesians 2:22
Hebrews 12:23
1. Evangelization of the world.
Mark 16:15-20
2. Worship of God.
John 4:23-24
3. Building a body of saints being perfected in the image of His Son.
Ephesians 4:11-16
Isaiah 53:4-5
Matthew 8:16-17
James 5:14-16
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Romans 8:23
Titus 2:13
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Zechariah 14:5
Matthew 24:27
Matthew 24:30
Revelation 1:7
Revelation 19:11-14
Revelation 20:1-6
Matthew 25:46
Mark 9:43-48
Revelation 19:20
Revelation 20:11-15
Revelation 21:8
2 Peter 3:13
Revelation 21
Revelation 22