- 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 been truly worshipping Him.
- We believe in all the
fundamental doctrines of the evangelical Protestant
church. For example, We believe in the inerrancy of
Scripture andÄì that the Bible, both Old and New
Testaments, is the inspired, infallible Word of
God.
- We believe that God is
eternally existent in three separate persons:
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
- We believe that God the father
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 vicarious death on the
Cross, was bodily resurrected, ascended back to the
right hand of God the Father, and ever lives to
make intercession for us. 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 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 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 await the pre-tribulation
rapture of the church, and We believe that the
second coming of Christ with His saints to rule on
the earth will be personal, pre-millennial, and
visible. This motivates us to fervent prayer, holy
living, heartfelt worship, committed service,
diligent study of God's Word, regular fellowship,
participation in believer's baptism by immersion,
and in Holy Communion.
- We seek to teach the Word of
God in such a way that its message can be applied
to an individual's life, leading that person to
greater maturity in Christ.
Statement of Faith
Toutle Christian
Fellowship has been formed as a fellowship of
believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our
supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to
His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not
a denominational church, nor are we opposed to
denominations as such, only to their over-emphasis of
the doctrinal differences that have led to the
division of the Body of Christ.