What We Believe
At The R.O.C.K. we believe that before people can align themselves with any group or organization in life, the very first thing they need to know is what the group is about. Critical questions to answer are:
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What do they stand for?
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What do they value?
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What is the direction for the group?
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What does it believe or teach?
Every vision should have a framework of beliefs from which it operates. Below are the biblical beliefs of The R.O.C.K.!
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We believe in the inspired and inerrant Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16, 2 Peter 1:21).
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We believe in original sin (Genesis 3:1-24, Psalm 51:5, Romans 3:23; 5:12).
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We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost - One God in three Persons (Genesis 1:1, 26, Matthew 3, 1 Corinthians 12:4-6).
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We believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior who inaugurated the Kingdom in his Personhood and provided access to the Kingdom through His death (Ephesians 2:18, Luke 4:43).
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We believe that every man must be born again in order to see or enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:3-7).
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We believe Satan is the god of this world system and Jesus ushered in the future of the Kingdom in the now by exercising power and authority over the works of Satan and that same power is available for believers today (2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 4:17, Luke 11:20).
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We believe that every Kingdom believer is called to engage in spiritual warfare, for our battle is not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6:12, 2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
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We believe Jesus is the eternal son of God who was fully God and fully man and redeemed mankind from its sin through perfect obedience, death on the cross and the physical resurrection from the dead (John 1:1-3, 14, 1 John 5:11-12, Luke 24:1-7).
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We believe the church is the embassy of the Kingdom, God’s representative upon the earth, and through it men and women come to know Christ the King and Christ will return in the cloud for His bride, the church which is the Body of Christ (Matthew 16:18, Ephesians 1:22, Colossians 1:18, Ephesians 5:27).
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We believe that every believer is to be empowered by the Holy Spirit and His gifts, to engage in evangelism and discipleship (Acts 1:8, Matthew 28:19-20).
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We believe that the church should gather as a worshipping community on a regular basis as a public witness to Christ (Hebrews 10:25, Acts 2:46).
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We believe in divine order which involves marriage between a man and a woman, and God ordains apostolic leadership in the church (Genesis 1:28; 3:1-24, Hebrews 13:4, 17, Ephesians 4:11).