Fruitful Living Christian Center Core Beliefs

THE SCRIPTURES are the infallible and authoritative Word of God, without error, given for the purpose of directing man to salvation.

• GOD THE FATHER is the creator of heaven and earth and the sustainer of all things.  There is but one God, infinite, eternal and perfect in holiness, truth and love.
• GOD THE SON, JESUS was supernaturally conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and was without sin.  He was the supreme sacrifice for the sin of all mankind through His vicarious death on the cross.  He arose from the dead in His own glorified body, and appeared too many, ascended into Heaven and will return to earth in power and glory.  He is now the Head of His Body, the Church.
• GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment: unites man to Jesus Christ in faith; brings about the new birth; baptizes and dwells within the believer enabling him to grow in sanctification and righteousness, and become God’s gift to the Church.  The filling of the Holy Spirit is available to all who believe in Jesus Christ, and will totally surrender their lives to the complete perfect will of God.

• MAN was created in the image and likeness of God.  Through the original sin of Adam mankind has fallen from God and become sinful in nature.  He is totally incapable of returning to God in himself and is lost and without hope, apart from the salvation of Jesus Christ.
• SALVATION is the gift of God through the grace and faith of Jesus Christ.  There is no other name, except Jesus Christ, by which man may be saved.  By turning from sin to repentance and trusting in Christ and His vicarious death, man is born again into eternal life by the Holy Spirit.

THE ORDINANCES OF THE CHURCH

• BAPTISM IN WATER the ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the Scriptures.  All who repent and believe on Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized.  Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life.
• HOLY COMMUNION the Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements -  bread and the fruit of the vine – is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ a memorial of His suffering and death and a prophecy of His second coming and is enjoined on all believers “till He come!”
• THE INITIAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST the baptism of believers in the Holy Ghost is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance.  The speaking in tongues in this instance is the same in essence as the gift of tongues, but different in purpose and use.

• DIVINE HEALING divine healing is on integral part of the gospel.  Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the Atonement, and is the privilege of all believers.