Staff Opening
Revised 3/19
Introduction
Fellowship is a traditional GARBC church ready to grow and engage the culture in which we find ourselves. Urban Des Moines is a mix of ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and viewpoints. The ideal candidate is committed to the Word of God and ready to explore, learn, and lead as the church seeks to go deeper in our relationships with one another and wider in our community outreach.
Position Title
Pastoral Assistant
Overview
This staff member will be an assistant to the pastor working primarily to coordinate, problem-solve, communicate, and lead to further the effectiveness of our Great-Commission Goal.
Primary Roles
Required Qualifications
Due to the nature of the position, only Men will be considered
Is this an Pastor/Elder position?
The calling of a Pastor is recognized by a man through the stirring of the Spirit and confirmed by the wisdom of the local church and its leaders. The qualifications for that office are described in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. The work of shepherding can take many different forms although it always involves direct leadership and example (1 Tim. 4:12, Heb. 13:17). Applicants already recognized as a Pastor through ordination would be welcome to join our team in the role of "Associate Pastor." Men not yet ordained are also welcome to apply and would find this ministry post to be an effective place to gain valuable practical skills and experiences that will shape and prepare the man for effective ministry and potential ordination.
Nature of Work
The position is flexible based on the current needs of the Pastor and the abilities of the Assistant. The following list is not exhaustive:
Hours/Pay
In order to complete the necessary tasks, we seek a minimum of 25 hours per week. This would allow time for the assistant to add outside employment and/or pursue schooling.
If the candidate has more availability, we are happy to expand the role of the assistant up to 40 hours per week.
We can offer $16/ hour in compensation without other benefits.
We have a special arrangement with an apartment complex in our city which is owned by a Christian family. The assistant (and family) would have the option to live in a 2-bedroom apartment for free while engaging in evangelism and ministry work at the complex (this provision takes the place of a more traditional "benefits package"). This work would complement and overlap with the assistant’s ministry at the church. Applicants are welcome to apply even if they are not certain or interested in the apartment complex option.
Questions about the compensation package are welcomed during an interview.
Fellowship is a traditional GARBC church ready to grow and engage the culture in which we find ourselves. Urban Des Moines is a mix of ethnicities, socio-economic backgrounds, and viewpoints. The ideal candidate is committed to the Word of God and ready to explore, learn, and lead as the church seeks to go deeper in our relationships with one another and wider in our community outreach.
Position Title
Pastoral Assistant
Overview
This staff member will be an assistant to the pastor working primarily to coordinate, problem-solve, communicate, and lead to further the effectiveness of our Great-Commission Goal.
Primary Roles
- Shepherd - Work alongside our current pastor to minister the Word of God to the hearts of the people at Fellowship and our surrounding community. Visitation, counseling, discipleship, neighborhood engagement, teaching, and preaching.
- Administration –Supervising and organizing the details of property, planning, and record-keeping so that the Pastor can focus on shepherding and overall vision.
- Communications –Handling communication in-person and via email, phone, web, and print for a wide range of specific needs.
Required Qualifications
Due to the nature of the position, only Men will be considered
- In agreement with our Doctrinal Statement
- Committed to personal holiness and possessing an honorable reputation
- Excellent “people skills” – effective in communication with people of all ages
- Track record of problem-solving
- 2 years (or more) of college completed in any field (theological training preferred)
- Proficient in grammar and writing
- Competent with Microsoft office/social media/basic computer hardware
- Self-motivated
- Ministry-minded
- Willing to work closely with a young, energetic, first-time pastor.
Is this an Pastor/Elder position?
The calling of a Pastor is recognized by a man through the stirring of the Spirit and confirmed by the wisdom of the local church and its leaders. The qualifications for that office are described in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1. The work of shepherding can take many different forms although it always involves direct leadership and example (1 Tim. 4:12, Heb. 13:17). Applicants already recognized as a Pastor through ordination would be welcome to join our team in the role of "Associate Pastor." Men not yet ordained are also welcome to apply and would find this ministry post to be an effective place to gain valuable practical skills and experiences that will shape and prepare the man for effective ministry and potential ordination.
Nature of Work
The position is flexible based on the current needs of the Pastor and the abilities of the Assistant. The following list is not exhaustive:
- Preaching/Teaching - learn and practice the rewarding work of expositional preaching
- Discipleship – training an individual or group
- Evangelism – make contacts in the community and engaging in personal evangelism
- Coordination - evangelism opportunities, fellowship events, new move-in visits, special worship services
- Record Keeping – attendance, receipts
- Communication – calling volunteers, confirming appointments, creating budget overview reports, visitor follow-up, recruiting volunteers for events
- Technology – website updating, brochure authoring and design, video editing, software updates, answering routine email, ensuring high-quality results in all materials printed, projected, or published
- Clerical – printing handouts, tidying ministry spaces, organizing and cataloguing resources, troubleshooting machines, updating the calendar
- Overseeing church property – alert maintenance of problems, coordinate with contractors as needed (pest, trash, church volunteers, etc.), report to deacons on property issues
- Music (if gifted) –song leading, instrumental accompaniment, choir, service planning
Hours/Pay
In order to complete the necessary tasks, we seek a minimum of 25 hours per week. This would allow time for the assistant to add outside employment and/or pursue schooling.
If the candidate has more availability, we are happy to expand the role of the assistant up to 40 hours per week.
We can offer $16/ hour in compensation without other benefits.
We have a special arrangement with an apartment complex in our city which is owned by a Christian family. The assistant (and family) would have the option to live in a 2-bedroom apartment for free while engaging in evangelism and ministry work at the complex (this provision takes the place of a more traditional "benefits package"). This work would complement and overlap with the assistant’s ministry at the church. Applicants are welcome to apply even if they are not certain or interested in the apartment complex option.
Questions about the compensation package are welcomed during an interview.
Articles of faith
ARTICLES OF FAITH of Fellowship Baptist Church
1. OF THE SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Holy Bible as originally written was verbally and plenarily inspired and therefore is infallible and without error in all matters of which it speaks. We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian unity and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried.
2 Tim. 3:15, 17; 2 Peter 1:19-21
2. OF THE TRUE GOD
We believe there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressively glorious in holiness and worthy of all possible honor, confidence and love; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons – The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
Ex. 20:2, 3; 1 Cor. 8:6; Rev. 4:11; 1 John 5:7
3. OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person; equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil one until God’s purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the Truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the agent in the New Birth; that He seals, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies, and helps the believer.
John 16:8-11, 3:5-6; Acts 11:16, 5:30-32; Gen. 1:1-3; Mark 1:8; Eph. 5:18; Luke 1:35, 24-40; Romans 8:14, 16, 26-27
4. OF THE DEVIL, OR SATAN.
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, that he is the unholy god of this age, and the author of all the powers of darkness, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire.
Matt. 4:1-3; 2 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 20:10; John 8:44; 1 John 2:8
5. OF THE CREATION
We believe the Genesis account of creation and believe that man came by direct creation of God and not evolution.
Gen. 1 & 2; Col. 1:16-17; John 1:3
Statement on Marriage and Sexuality:
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning, and that is an exclusive union which joins one man and one woman in a binding one-flesh relationship as taught in the creation account in the Bible.
We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, attempts to change gender, or disagreement with biological gender are all forms of sexual immorality and therefore are sinful and offensive to God. All persons who are employed or serve as volunteers in this church must agree to and abide by this statement on Marriage. We believe that every person must be treated with compassion, kindness, respect, and dignity. We believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake any sin.
6. OF THE FALL OF MAN
We believe that man was created in perfection under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless and happy state in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not only by constraint, but of choice; and therefore under just condemnation without defense or excuse.
Gen. 3:1-6, 24; Rom. 5:10-19, 1:18, 32.
7. OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH
We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner; born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can ever be born of woman, and that He is both God, and God in the flesh.
Gen. 3:15; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:35; John 1:14; Col. 2:9; 2 Cor. 5:19
8. OF THE ATONEMENT FOR SIN
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God, who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full and
vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner’s place, the just dying for the unjust; Christ, the Lord, bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection. He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, and a compassionate, all-sufficient Savior.
Eph. 2:8; Acts 15:11; Rom. 3:24; John 3:15; Matt. 18:11; Phil. 2:7; Heb. 2:14; Isa. 53:4-7; Rom. 3:25; 1 John 4:10; 1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24, 3:18
9. OF GRACE IN THE NEW CREATION
We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again; that the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus; that it is instantaneous and not a process; that in the new birth, the one dead in trespasses and in sins is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God; that the new creation is brought about in a manner above our comprehension, solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the gospel; that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith and newness of life.
John 3:5, 8; 2 Cor. 5:17, 19, 21; 1 John 3:6-7; Acts 16: 30, 33; 2 Peter 1:4; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:1; Col. 2:13
10. OF JUSTIFICATION
We believe that the great Gospel blessing which Christ secures for all who believe in Him is justification.
11. OF FAITH AND SALVATION
We believe that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation and wherever there is true faith, there is true repentance.
Matt. 13:3-9; Acts 16:31; 1 Cor. 15:1-4
12. OF THE LOCAL CHURCH
We believe that a local church is a congregation of immersed believers, associated by covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word; that its officers are pastors and deacons whose qualifications, claims, and duties are clearly defined in the Scriptures; we believe the true mission of the Church is the faithful witnessing of Christ to all men as we have opportunity. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government, free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that the one and only superintendent is Christ, through the Holy Spirit; that it is Scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel; that each local church is the sole judge of the measure and method of its cooperation; on all matters of membership, of policy, of government, of discipline, of benevolence, the will of the local church is final.
Acts 2:41-43, 20:17-28, 15:13-18; 1 Cor. 11:2;Eph. 1:22-23, 4:11, 5:23-24; 1 Tim. 3:17; Col. 1:18
13. OF BAPTISM AND THE LORD’s SUPPER
We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a saved one in water to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, which faith has its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; that it is pre-requisite to the privileges of a church relation. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is the commemoration of His death until He comes, and should be preceded always by solemn self-examination.
Acts 8:36-39; John 3:23; Rom. 6:3-5; Matt. 3:16; Col. 2:12; 1 Cor. 11:23-28
14. OF THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
We believe that all who are truly born of the Spirit of God are kept by God the Father for Jesus Christ.
Jude 1; 1 Peter 1:5
15. OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that only by faith are we justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, sanctified by the Spirit of our God, and truly righteous in His esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the curse; and this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting happiness of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost.
Gen. 18:23; Rom. 6:17-18, 23, 7:6; 1 John 5:19; Prov. 14:32; Luke 6:25; Matt. 25: 34-41; John 8:21
16. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; that all officials in authority are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed, except in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the coming Prince of the Kings of the earth.
Rom. 13:17; 2 Sam. 23:3; Ex. 18:21-22; Acts 23:5; Matt. 22:21; Acts 5:20, 4:19-20; Dan. 3:17-18
17. OF THE RESURRECTION, PERSONAL VISIBLE PRE-MILLENNIAL RETURN OF CHRIST, AND RELATED EVENTS
A. We believe in the bodily resurrection. Matt. 28:6-7; Luke 24:39; John 20:27; 1 Cor. 15:4; Luke 24:2-5
B. The Ascension. Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:51; Mk. 16:19; Rev. 3:21; Heb. 12:2
C. The High Priesthood. Heb. 8:6, 2:17, 5:9-10; 1 Tim. 2:5; 1 Jn. 2:1
D. The Second Coming. John 14:3; Acts 1:11, 1 Thess. 4:16, James 5:8; Heb. 9:28
E. The bodily resurrection of the righteous dead. 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:42-52
F. The change of the living in Christ. 1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Phil. 3: 20-21
G. The Throne of David. Luke 1:32; Isa. 9:6-7; Acts 2:29-30.
H. The Millennial Reign. Luke 1:32; Isa. 9:6-7; Acts 2:29-30; Psa. 72:8; Rev. 20:6, 14
18. OF THE DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE
A. We believe that the Scriptures divide time into seven unequal periods of time which we
call dispensations. Eph. 3:2-5
B. We believe that each of these periods in history are marked off by some change in God’s
method of dealing with mankind or a portion of mankind.
C. We believe that in the study of dispensations, it is of utmost importance to remember that
God had only one plan of salvation, but various ways of dealing with man regarding
that plan.
D. We believe that there are seven dispensations characterized as follows:
1. Innocence Creation of Adam to the fall.
2. Conscience Fall of Adam to the flood.
3. Human Government Flood to the Tower of Babel.
4. Promise Call of Abraham to the Exodus.
5. Law Mount Sinai to the Cross
6. Grace or Church Age Calvary to Tribulation period.
7. Kingdom Second Coming to Great White Throne.
E. We believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, which is His Body. Rev. 3:10
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1. OF THE SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Holy Bible as originally written was verbally and plenarily inspired and therefore is infallible and without error in all matters of which it speaks. We believe the Bible to be the true center of Christian unity and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried.
2 Tim. 3:15, 17; 2 Peter 1:19-21
2. OF THE TRUE GOD
We believe there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressively glorious in holiness and worthy of all possible honor, confidence and love; that in the unity of the Godhead there are three persons – The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
Ex. 20:2, 3; 1 Cor. 8:6; Rev. 4:11; 1 John 5:7
3. OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person; equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the evil one until God’s purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the Truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the agent in the New Birth; that He seals, guides, teaches, witnesses to, sanctifies, and helps the believer.
John 16:8-11, 3:5-6; Acts 11:16, 5:30-32; Gen. 1:1-3; Mark 1:8; Eph. 5:18; Luke 1:35, 24-40; Romans 8:14, 16, 26-27
4. OF THE DEVIL, OR SATAN.
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan, that he is the unholy god of this age, and the author of all the powers of darkness, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire.
Matt. 4:1-3; 2 Cor. 4:4; Rev. 20:10; John 8:44; 1 John 2:8
5. OF THE CREATION
We believe the Genesis account of creation and believe that man came by direct creation of God and not evolution.
Gen. 1 & 2; Col. 1:16-17; John 1:3
Statement on Marriage and Sexuality:
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning, and that is an exclusive union which joins one man and one woman in a binding one-flesh relationship as taught in the creation account in the Bible.
We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe that adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, attempts to change gender, or disagreement with biological gender are all forms of sexual immorality and therefore are sinful and offensive to God. All persons who are employed or serve as volunteers in this church must agree to and abide by this statement on Marriage. We believe that every person must be treated with compassion, kindness, respect, and dignity. We believe that God offers redemption and restoration to all who confess and forsake any sin.
6. OF THE FALL OF MAN
We believe that man was created in perfection under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless and happy state in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners, not only by constraint, but of choice; and therefore under just condemnation without defense or excuse.
Gen. 3:1-6, 24; Rom. 5:10-19, 1:18, 32.
7. OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH
We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit in a miraculous manner; born of Mary, a virgin, as no other man was ever born or can ever be born of woman, and that He is both God, and God in the flesh.
Gen. 3:15; Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18-25; Luke 1:35; John 1:14; Col. 2:9; 2 Cor. 5:19
8. OF THE ATONEMENT FOR SIN
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God, who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full and
vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner’s place, the just dying for the unjust; Christ, the Lord, bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in Heaven, and uniting in His wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection. He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, and a compassionate, all-sufficient Savior.
Eph. 2:8; Acts 15:11; Rom. 3:24; John 3:15; Matt. 18:11; Phil. 2:7; Heb. 2:14; Isa. 53:4-7; Rom. 3:25; 1 John 4:10; 1 Cor. 15:3; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24, 3:18
9. OF GRACE IN THE NEW CREATION
We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again; that the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus; that it is instantaneous and not a process; that in the new birth, the one dead in trespasses and in sins is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God; that the new creation is brought about in a manner above our comprehension, solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the gospel; that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith and newness of life.
John 3:5, 8; 2 Cor. 5:17, 19, 21; 1 John 3:6-7; Acts 16: 30, 33; 2 Peter 1:4; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:1; Col. 2:13
10. OF JUSTIFICATION
We believe that the great Gospel blessing which Christ secures for all who believe in Him is justification.
- That justification includes the pardon of sin and the gift of eternal life on principles of righteousness.
- That it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer’s blood, His righteousness is credited to us.
11. OF FAITH AND SALVATION
We believe that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only condition of salvation and wherever there is true faith, there is true repentance.
Matt. 13:3-9; Acts 16:31; 1 Cor. 15:1-4
12. OF THE LOCAL CHURCH
We believe that a local church is a congregation of immersed believers, associated by covenant of faith and fellowship of the Gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by His laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word; that its officers are pastors and deacons whose qualifications, claims, and duties are clearly defined in the Scriptures; we believe the true mission of the Church is the faithful witnessing of Christ to all men as we have opportunity. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government, free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that the one and only superintendent is Christ, through the Holy Spirit; that it is Scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel; that each local church is the sole judge of the measure and method of its cooperation; on all matters of membership, of policy, of government, of discipline, of benevolence, the will of the local church is final.
Acts 2:41-43, 20:17-28, 15:13-18; 1 Cor. 11:2;Eph. 1:22-23, 4:11, 5:23-24; 1 Tim. 3:17; Col. 1:18
13. OF BAPTISM AND THE LORD’s SUPPER
We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a saved one in water to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, which faith has its effect in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; that it is pre-requisite to the privileges of a church relation. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is the commemoration of His death until He comes, and should be preceded always by solemn self-examination.
Acts 8:36-39; John 3:23; Rom. 6:3-5; Matt. 3:16; Col. 2:12; 1 Cor. 11:23-28
14. OF THE ASSURANCE OF SALVATION
We believe that all who are truly born of the Spirit of God are kept by God the Father for Jesus Christ.
Jude 1; 1 Peter 1:5
15. OF THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that only by faith are we justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, sanctified by the Spirit of our God, and truly righteous in His esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the curse; and this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting happiness of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost.
Gen. 18:23; Rom. 6:17-18, 23, 7:6; 1 John 5:19; Prov. 14:32; Luke 6:25; Matt. 25: 34-41; John 8:21
16. OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; that all officials in authority are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed, except in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the coming Prince of the Kings of the earth.
Rom. 13:17; 2 Sam. 23:3; Ex. 18:21-22; Acts 23:5; Matt. 22:21; Acts 5:20, 4:19-20; Dan. 3:17-18
17. OF THE RESURRECTION, PERSONAL VISIBLE PRE-MILLENNIAL RETURN OF CHRIST, AND RELATED EVENTS
A. We believe in the bodily resurrection. Matt. 28:6-7; Luke 24:39; John 20:27; 1 Cor. 15:4; Luke 24:2-5
B. The Ascension. Acts 1:9-11; Luke 24:51; Mk. 16:19; Rev. 3:21; Heb. 12:2
C. The High Priesthood. Heb. 8:6, 2:17, 5:9-10; 1 Tim. 2:5; 1 Jn. 2:1
D. The Second Coming. John 14:3; Acts 1:11, 1 Thess. 4:16, James 5:8; Heb. 9:28
E. The bodily resurrection of the righteous dead. 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:42-52
F. The change of the living in Christ. 1 Cor. 15:51-53; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Phil. 3: 20-21
G. The Throne of David. Luke 1:32; Isa. 9:6-7; Acts 2:29-30.
H. The Millennial Reign. Luke 1:32; Isa. 9:6-7; Acts 2:29-30; Psa. 72:8; Rev. 20:6, 14
18. OF THE DISPENSATIONAL APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE
A. We believe that the Scriptures divide time into seven unequal periods of time which we
call dispensations. Eph. 3:2-5
B. We believe that each of these periods in history are marked off by some change in God’s
method of dealing with mankind or a portion of mankind.
C. We believe that in the study of dispensations, it is of utmost importance to remember that
God had only one plan of salvation, but various ways of dealing with man regarding
that plan.
D. We believe that there are seven dispensations characterized as follows:
1. Innocence Creation of Adam to the fall.
2. Conscience Fall of Adam to the flood.
3. Human Government Flood to the Tower of Babel.
4. Promise Call of Abraham to the Exodus.
5. Law Mount Sinai to the Cross
6. Grace or Church Age Calvary to Tribulation period.
7. Kingdom Second Coming to Great White Throne.
E. We believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, which is His Body. Rev. 3:10
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