Purpose and Mission
1. The purpose of Restoration Fellowship of Pagosa Springs is to worship God in spirit and in truth and glorify Him by proclaiming and representing Jesus Christ as the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6; Philippians 2:16);
2. To bring about restoration of the Great Commandment and the Great Commission as God intends it to be for this generation (John 13:34, Matthew 28:19-20);
3. To help restore back to the Church (the body of Christ) those truths that have been forgotten, neglected, resisted or stolen (Acts 3:17-21);
4. To carry on the commission of Jesus Christ to preach the gospel to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to set the captives free, to heal the sick, to proclaim that now is the time to act (Luke 4:18-19).
Statement of Faith
1. We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as being verbally inspired by God and completely inerrant in the original writings and of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
Matthew 5:17-18 II Timothy 3:16
Luke 24:27, 44 II Peter 1:21
John 10:35
2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:18-19 Acts 5:3-4
Mark 12:29 Hebrews 1:1-4
John 6:27 II Corinthians 13:14
3. We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man.
Matthew 1:16, 20-25 John 11:35
Luke 2:40, 52 Philippians 2:5-8
Luke 7:48
4. We believe that man was created in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also that spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought, word and deed.
Genesis 1:26 Psalm 51:5
Genesis 2:17 Romans 3:10-19
Genesis 6:5 Romans 8:6-7
Psalm 14:1-3 Ephesians 2:1-3
5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in, trust in and rely upon Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
John 1:29 Romans 3:25-26
John 3:16 II Corinthians 5:21
6. We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His ascension into Heaven, and His present life for us as High Priest and Advocate.
John 20:20 Hebrews 7:25
Acts 1:9-11 I John 2:1
7. We believe in "that blessed hope," the personal and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. (The church’s official position is the pre-millennial return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, but this is not a condition of membership.)
John 14:1-3 I Thessalonians 4:13-18
I Corinthians 15:51-57 Revelation 20:4-6
8. We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God and are transformed into a totally new creation in Christ Jesus. We believe that they can have assurance of that relationship, the transformation and of having eternal life.
John 1:12 Romans 8:28-39
John 10:28-30 Titus 3:5
Acts 16:31 Luke 24
9. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the justified and of the unjustified; the everlasting blessedness of the saved; and everlasting conscious punishment of the lost.
Luke 16:19-26 II Thessalonians 1:7-9
John 5:25-29 Revelation 20:11-15
10. We believe that the Holy Spirit has endowed upon the Body of Christ all the spiritual gifts for the manifest work of God’s presence, power, holiness and glory to advance the gospel of His Kingdom.
Acts 1:8 Romans 12:3-9
I Corinthians 12:1-11 Ephesians 4:7-13
11. We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to anoint believers with power for service and for holiness, to work the full gospel in His Kingdom. One may receive many fillings of the Spirit of God to manifest His power, presence, holiness and glory. The evidence will be according to the Word of God.
Acts 1:8 Acts 11:15-17
Acts 2:1-4 Acts 19:4-7
Acts 2:42-43 Galatians 5:16-26
Acts 8:14-17 Ephesians 5:17-18
Acts 10:44-48
12. We believe that Divine Healing is the manifest power of Christ to heal the sick in answer to the prayer of faith.
James 5:14-16 Isaiah 53:5
Mark 16:18 I Peter 2:24
Matthew 8:17
13. We believe in the ministry of Deliverance of demonic spirits in accordance with the teaching practice of Jesus to advance His Kingdom and set the captives free.
Matthew 10:1, 8 Luke 4:18-19
Mark 16:17 Luke 9:1-2
14. We believe that water baptism demonstrates our identity with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is the outward demonstration of a person’s faith in Jesus that brings a person to repentance and conversion to Christ.
Matthew 28:19-20 Colossians 2:8-15
Acts 8:38 Romans 6:1-4
Acts 16:31-34
15. We believe that all the promises of God are "Yes" and "Amen" in Christ Jesus and that we can enjoy the benefits of His promises directly, to the degree that we are able to receive them by faith.
II Corinthians 1:19-20 Hebrews 11:1
Hebrews 6:11-15
COVENANT OF FELLOWSHIP
By the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit, we covenant to make it our goal:
1. To walk together in Christian love.
2. To exercise Christian care and watchfulness over one another.
3. To pray with and for one another, sharing our burdens, sorrows and joys.
4. To be thoughtful and courteous to one another, to be slow to anger, and to be quick to forgive and to seek forgiveness. We're to comfort those we forgive.
5. To guard the spiritual and scriptural purity, peace and prosperity of the Church and its growth in scriptural knowledge and godliness.
6. To assist, as the Lord enables, in the work of the Church and to promote its usefulness as a witness to the saving grace of God in Christ Jesus.
7. To contribute, as the Lord directs, to the financial support of the Church, the relief of the needy and the evangelization of all people.
8. To love and to pray for all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.
9. To engage individual and/or family devotions where possible.
10. To bring up such children as may be entrusted to our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
11. To walk circumspectly in the world, to provide things honest in the sight of all men, to be faithful in engagements, exemplary in deportment, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts.
12. To endeavor by example, by word and by prayer to win others to an acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. "But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin." (I John 1:7).
13. To be filled with the Holy Spirit and to walk in the Spirit at all times.
14. To carry out the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-30; Mark 16:15-18).
Adopted 2006
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