What we believe.

 

Hope Mission Centre is an interdenominational church and this is our Statement of Faith.

  • 1.

    We believe that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. It is the inerrant Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16)

  • 2.

    We believe that Jesus came into this world as a man, was born of a virgin, and was conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe that Jesus was born without the inherited sin of Adam and during His entire life, committed no sin. Jesus was the eternal Father made visible, apart from whom there is no God. (John 10:30; Isaiah 9:6; Luke 2:11; Revelation 1:8)

  • 3.

    We believe in the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.

  • 4.

    We believe in the personal salvation of believers through the confession of sins, recognising that Jesus Christ is the substitute for our sins through His shed blood. It is by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ and His shed blood, that we become an heir of God. (Romans 10:9,10; 1 John 1:9; Ephesians 2:8,9)

  • 5.

    We believe that after receiving salvation through Jesus Christ, you should be baptised as commanded by the Lord Jesus. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matt 28:19)“He who believes and is baptised will be saved…” (Mark 16:16)

  • 6.

    We believe in the Great Commission – to minister God’s saving grace and reach out to every person (Mark 16:15) in obedience to God’s command to take the gospel into all the world.

  • 7.

    We believe in the second coming – the imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ for His Church (His Bride).

  • 8.

    We believe that there is a heaven and a hell. Heaven is a place of eternal rest for the righteous (those who have accepted Jesus Christ as atonement for their sins) and hell is a place of eternal damnation for the unrighteous (those who do not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour).