Statement of Faith
Three Fold Focus of Evangkelio Ra Kristus:
1. To provide sound Biblical teaching so that believers may learn and grow unto spiritual maturity.
Translation (Palauan language)
Ng ngerchelel a Evangkelio ra Kristus lolsisechakl a meral klemerang losisechakl el tuobed el ngara Chedaol Llechukl el mora Kristiano meng suub el mo medengei meng mukeroul el mo mesisiich e ungil Kristiano.
2. To provide an environment for believers to function as “salt and light” to their fellow believers, community and the world.
Translation (Palauan language)
Ng ngerchelel a Evangkelio ra Kristus losisecheklii a Kristiano el mo meduch meng mo ungil el “Sar e Llomes” el morar Kristiano e direk el mora buai el lekiei er ngii ma belulechad el rokir.
3. To proclaim the glory of Jesus Christ, our Savior and leading them to personal relationship with the Creator of the Universe through Him.
Translation (Palauan language)
Ng direk el ngerchelel a Evangkelio ra Kristus losisecheklii a Kristiano meng mo meduch loldanges e mengebkall ra Kristus Jesus ra bek el sils ra klengar er ngii e direk el choitikiketerir a rechad el mora klemerang e ungil deleuill lobengkel Omebelel a Eanged ma Utem loeak ngii el Kristus Jesus.
The First Purpose: Kot el Moktek
Is through consistent presentation of the gospel exegetical, categorical bible teaching so that every believer can come to understand the “mind of Christ” (I Co. 2:16). Our goal is to nurture believers unto Spiritual maturity, promote personal relationship with the Godhead and one another, to teach believers to operate out of the grace provided by the Holy Spirit and bible doctrine and foster the capacity for victory in every test of life by faith in God’s provision.
The Second Purpose: Ongerul Moktek
Is attained through training believers to recognize and function in their own Spiritual gift, to encourage them to gifted service both within and outside the church body. We encourage church-supported ministries as well as individual believers initiatives. These ministries include physical assistance and Spiritual edification to other believers and evangelism of unbelievers in the community and throughout the world.
The Third Purpose: Ongedel Moktek
Is fulfilled as the church is built up and fulfills it earthly mission. Christ is glorified through His Word, as it is taught and as it is applied in believers’ lives. He is glorified as His love and grace is manifested through the Church as His ambassadors here on earth. He is gloried as we proclaim His victory over sin and death won on the cross and evidenced by His resurrection. He is glorified and we teach the gospel of salvation to a lost world which is received through faith alone in Christ alone.
Is through consistent presentation of the gospel exegetical, categorical bible teaching so that every believer can come to understand the “mind of Christ” (I Co. 2:16). Our goal is to nurture believers unto Spiritual maturity, promote personal relationship with the Godhead and one another, to teach believers to operate out of the grace provided by the Holy Spirit and bible doctrine and foster the capacity for victory in every test of life by faith in God’s provision.
The Second Purpose: Ongerul Moktek
Is attained through training believers to recognize and function in their own Spiritual gift, to encourage them to gifted service both within and outside the church body. We encourage church-supported ministries as well as individual believers initiatives. These ministries include physical assistance and Spiritual edification to other believers and evangelism of unbelievers in the community and throughout the world.
The Third Purpose: Ongedel Moktek
Is fulfilled as the church is built up and fulfills it earthly mission. Christ is glorified through His Word, as it is taught and as it is applied in believers’ lives. He is glorified as His love and grace is manifested through the Church as His ambassadors here on earth. He is gloried as we proclaim His victory over sin and death won on the cross and evidenced by His resurrection. He is glorified and we teach the gospel of salvation to a lost world which is received through faith alone in Christ alone.
Biblical Basis for our Statement of Faith:
The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Bible, comprised of the Old and New Testaments, to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative of Word of God (Matthew 5:18; II Timothy 3: 16-17). In faith we hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, God-breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice (II Timothy 3:16-17). While still using the individual writing styles of the human authors, the Holy Spirit perfectly guided them to ensure they wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission (II Peter 1:21).
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, existing in three persons, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit eternal being, identical in nature, equal in power, and glory, each having the same attributes and perfections. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Nehemiah 9:6; Isaiah 44:6; John 10:30; 13:31-32; 14:1-2; 6-7; 9-13; 16-21; 17:1-26; II Corinthians 13:14.
Sovereignty Of God
We believe that God, existing as Father, Son, Holy Spirit, is sovereign and exercise supreme and absolute rule over all creation as a part of and consistent with the essence and attribute of deity. (I Chronicles 29:11-12; Daniel 4:35: Psalm 24:1; Ephesians 1:11; I Timothy 6:15) but that He allows His creatures great freedom of volition, particularly about what they think of Jesus Christs and their obedience to His will (Genesis 2:16-17; John 3:16,36; Romans 5:8-10; 16:24-25; I Timothy 2:4-6).
God The Father
We believe that God the Father, although equal in essence to the other members of the Godhead, is the primary planner and first among equals of the Trinity; that He is the One who judged the sins of the world on Jesus Christ on the cross; that He is the object of our prayer directives; that we are to seek an intimate relationship with Him as exemplified by Jesus during His earthly ministry (Mathew 27:46,54; Luke 11:2:23-46; John 6:35-46; 8:42, 4954; 10:38; 11:41; 12:49-50; 14: 9-31; 15; 16; 17)
God The Son
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, being the only visible member of the Godhead, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man; that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the cross as the substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of the entire world; that our redemption is made sure to us by His literal resurrection from the death; that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in Heaven, still as undiminished deity and true humanity in His resurrection body, exalted at the right hand of God the Father, where as our High Priest He serves as representative intercessor and advocate for His people. (John 1:12, 14,29,34; Luke 1:35; Romans 3:24-25; 8:34; I Peter 2:24; Hebrews 9:24; I John 2:1-2).
God The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Godhead, has the most active role with believers during the Church Age, in that He convicts the world of sin, indwells every Christian believers from the very moment of salvation in this present age, baptizes them into the body of Christ, seals them unto the day of redemption, and offers spiritual power for them to walk in dependence on Him (Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:12-13; Galatians 5:16-18, 22-23; Ephesians 1:13-14; 5:18)
About Humanity
We believe that humanity came into existence by direct creation of God and that humanity is uniquely made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). We believe that all humanity, because of Adam’s fall, has inherited a sinful nature, that all human beings choose so sin (Romans 3:23), and that all sin is exceedingly offensive to God (Romans 6:23). Humanity is utterly unable to remedy this fallen state (Ephesians 2:1-5,12).
The Salvation
We believe that salvation is a gift from God’s grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ’s death fully accomplished justification through faith and redemption from sin. Christ died in our place (Romans 5: 8-9) and bore our sins in His own body (I Peter 2:24). On the third day after His death, Jesus physically rose again, demonstrating His victory over sin and death (Romans 14:9).
We believe that salvation is received by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Good works and obedience are results of salvation, not requirements for salvation. Due to the greatness, sufficiency, and perfection of Christ’s sacrifice, all those who have truly received Christ as Savior are eternally secure in salvation, kept by God’s power, secured and sealed in Christ forever (John 6:37-40); 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; Ephesians 1:13-14; I Peter 1:5; Jude 24). Just as salvation cannot be earned by good works, neither does it need good works to be maintained or sustained. Good works and changed lives are the inevitable results of salvation (James 2).
The Church/Ecclesiology/Ecclesia
We believe that the Church, the body of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all believers of this present age (I Corinthians 12:12-14; II Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27). We believe in the ordinances of believer’s water baptism by immersion as a testimony to Christ and identification with Him, and the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of Christ’s death and shed blood (Mathew 28:19-20; 2:41-42; 18:8; I Corinthians 11:23-26). Through the church, believers are to be taught to obey the Lord and to testify concerning their faith in Christ as Savior and to honor Him by holy living. We believe in the Great Commission as the primary mission of the Church. It is the obligation of all believers to witness, by word and life, to the truths of God’s Word. The gospel of the grace of God is to be preached to all the world (Mathew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; II Corinthians 5:19-20).
Things To Come/Eschatology
We believe in the blessed hope (Titus 2:13), the personal and imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture His saints (I Thessalonians 4:13-18). We believe in the visible and bodily return of Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His promised millennial kingdom (Zech 14:4-11; I Thessalonians 3:13; Revelation 3:10, 19:11-16, 20:1-6). We believe in the physical resurrection of all human beings—the saints to everlasting joy and bliss on the New Earth, and the wicked to eternal punishment in the lake of fire (Mathew 25:46; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).
We believe that the souls of believers are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where they await their resurrection when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; II Thessalonians 4:16-17). We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until their resurrection when, with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire to suffer everlasting punishment (Mathew 25: 41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15).
Church Missions/Missiology
The Lord Jesus Christ commanded all believers through His Body, the Church, to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to disciple men in every tribe, language, and people-group of every nation. The fulfillment of that Great Commission requires that all believers submit their worldly and personal ambitions to a total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” (Galatians 2:20). (Matthew 28:19-20) (Acts 1:8).
Evangkelio ra Kristus’ primary goal is to be faithful to God’s mandate He gave to the Apostles to introduce as many people as possible to Our Triune God that they may receive His free gift of eternal life through repentance/saving faith.
"Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - John 14:6