New Hope Assembly of God Beliefs

As an Assembly of God church, we agree to the 16 fundamental truths as found on the national website. 

https://ag.org/Beliefs/Statement-of-Fundamental-Truths

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete inspired Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct & is incapable of error. ·  2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
• In His second coming, rapture, & millenial reign

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him power

Mankind

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation & our only hope of being redeemed is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

• Christ voluntarily suffered a sacrificial death to pay the penalty for our sins
• We must have true repentance toward God (acknowledging our sin & turning away from it) & faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• We are saved by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• When we come to know God through faith, we come into relationship with Him & become His heirs, given the hope of eternal life.
• Our journey begins when we place our faith & trust in Him, with Him transforming us into the image of the Lord, our creator.