What Do We Believe?

Our church fellowship is both conservative and evangelical. We are

conservative in that the historical truths of God's Word are fully

and openly embraced. The Bible is understood to be God's revelation to

mankind and is accepted as fully inspired by him. God's full weight of

power and authority stand behind his Word. As such, the Bible is

looked to as completely sufficient to guide us in what we should believe

for teaching and in how we are to live our lives in a manner that pleases

the Lord. We are evangelical in the sense that we are convinced of

God's desire to give salvation to anyone who will embrace Jesus Christ

as their Lord and Savior. Also, we seek to be involved with the

Lord's work in helping others to know him.

First Assembly of God is pentecostal as well. That is, we believe that

the same gifts from the Holy Spirit, which began being poured out in

Acts chapter two, are still available to Christians in the 21st Century.

We believe, teach and seek to practice the truth that it is God's will for

all his people to be completely filled with his Holy Spirit. This adds a

beneficial dynamic to the lives of individual Christians, enabling the

local body of believers to worship and minister to others in ways that

would not be possible otherwise.

For a more comphrensive explanation of our beliefs just click on the

AG Beliefs link below. Discussions on a number of our other views,

such as gambling, abortion and homosexuality can be found by clicking

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