Agape Chapel Ministries
Our
Confession of the Christian Faith.
We
believe and confess our Lord God, eternal infinite, immeasurable,
incomprehensible, and invisible, one in substance, and three in person, Father,
Son and Holy Spirit, who by his almighty power and wisdom, creator of all
things, and all things are created by him for him and in him all things
consist. He created man after his own image and man’s chief end is to
glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. In his fatherly providence, he also governs,
maintain and preserve according to the purpose of his will. (Isa 40:28; Ps 145:3; Rom
We believe Adam was the federal head of all
humanity, when Adam sinned and in him death came to all and all died, we are
all descendents of our father Adam and his transgression, we were dead in
trespasses and sins. We became the children of perdition, and fell into the
yoke of sin and damnation. God was not obligated to save us from sin and
damnation. But God in his mercy made a covenant in heaven as he provided us a
Savior Lord Jesus Christ giving us the grace.
We believe and confess Jesus Christ the only Lord
and Savior, who being equal with God, made himself of
no reputation, but took on him the form of a servant and became man, in all
things he was like us, except sin, in him there is mercy and forgiveness.
We believe our Lord Jesus, the Prophet, Priest and
King, the head and Savior of his church, the heir of all things and Judge of
the world, through all eternity the elect of God, to be his seed and in time,
they are redeemed, called, justified, sanctified and glorified.
We believe when the fullness of time came, he was
conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary (according
to the flesh) and preached in earth the gospel of salvation, then at the end he
was condemned without guilt under Pontius Pilate to be crucified on the cross
between two thieves as a notorious trespasser, Christ Jesus took upon him the punishment
on our behalf he delivered us from the curse of the law.
We believe because of his great mercy without any
compulsion, Jesus Christ offered up himself as the only sacrifice to purge the
sins of the elect and to reconcile us to God, being God could not die but he
suffered his humanity to be punished with the most cruel death, the just and
holy God who punishes sin poured out his fierce anger and severe judgment upon
Jesus, He fully satisfied the justice of God by his sacrifice.
We believe Christ Jesus rose from the grave on the
third day and death was conquered through his bodily resurrection. By his death,
sin was taken away, so our righteousness was restored by his resurrection.
We believe after forty days on earth Christ Jesus
ascended into heaven, seated at the right hand of the Father, making
intercession towards God the Father for us.
We believe, when all things are fulfilled, which
God has spoken by all the prophets, since the world began, Lord Jesus will
return in the same visible form, in which he ascended, with an unspeakable
majesty, power, he will separate the Lambs from the Goats, the elect from
reprobate, so that none whether he alive then, or dead before shall escape his
judgment. He will provide the elect the everlasting inheritance kingdom
prepared for them prepared from the foundation of the world.
We believe and confess the Holy Spirit, God
equal with the Father and the Son, who regenerates and sanctifies us, rules and
guides us into all truth, persuading most assuredly in our consciences that we
be the children of God.
We believe in the universal church, which is
invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect that have been, are, or
shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head of the church. There is no
other head of the church but the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe the word of God contained in the Old
and the New Testament. We do not believe the books of Apocrypha being of divine
inspiration, are no part of the canon of the Scripture, and therefore are of no
authority in the
We believe in the communion of the saints. All
believers are saints, they are united to Jesus Christ their Head, by his
Spirit, and by faith, have fellowship with him in his graces, sufferings,
death, resurrection, and glory: and, being united to one another in love, they
have communion in each other's gifts and graces, and mutual edification.
We believe the holy sacraments to be immersion
water Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We being strangers of God by original sin
are received into his family and congregation with full assurance.
We believe in Ecclesiastical discipline in
admonition and correction of faults in promoting holiness in the church.
We believe in Heaven and Hell. At the resurrection, souls and the bodies shall rise again; the believers come forth unto the resurrection of life and the wicked who are raised to judgment. The unbelievers shall be damned to unquenchable fire and the believers will receive the Kingdom prepared from the beginning of the world where they will see God face to face in heaven.
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