The Holy Spirit draws seekers to Jesus Christ, and empowers believers for personal growth and service to the church and soceity. Jesus desires to immerse the believer in the fullness of the Holy Spirit and comes upon believers as they accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord. When believers respond, the Holy Spirit empowers them to become an effective Christian witness. We are to seek the gifts of the Holy Spirit as He distributes them to each of us.
The Church is the Body of Christ and Christ is the head of the Church. He is the one that continues to build the Church both universally and locally. Each believer is called by God to be an integral part of a local Church family.
Our affliation is with the United Church of Christ Denomination and the Penn Northeast Conference of the United Church of Christ here Pennsylvania. We are also a "Faithful and Welcoming" congregation of the United Church of Christ. We stand up for the Biblical Scriptures which state marriage is between "one man and one woman" only. Go to websites to find out more about this at......www.southernconrenew.org and www.faithfuland welcoming.org.
That Baptism, whether it be by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring has a significance for the adult believer, as well as for the infant and the infant's parents. For adult believers it is a symbol of the death and burial of their old manner of living and a resurrection to their new manner of living in Jesus Christ. For the infant, it is a declaration by the parents of a sign and seal of the covenant of God that a child has been born into a Christian home, and that the parents and the church, with the help of God, will teach and guide that child in the ways of the Lord. With the hope that at the proper time, the child too will come to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
The Lord's Supper represents Christ's broken body and shed blood, His sacrifice for the sins of all humanity. It symbolizes the meaning of Christ's death until He returns. It is expressed by the taking of bread and wine and should be preceded by a time of personal cleansing through self-examination and confessions of sins. It's available to everyone who has accepted Christ as Savior.
The Scriptures calls all believers to the ministry as revealed in and by the Lord Jesus Christ, who instructed believers to love their neighbors as themselves. That ministry has a three fold purpose of service, evangelization, and edification of the Body of Christ.
The Scriptures teach that man dies once and after that he is judged. Every person will appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ. All who have accepted Christ, their names being found in the Lamb's Book of Life, will reign in eternal fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Those whose names are not found there will be consigned to everlasting punishment in hell, the lake of fire, along with satan and his followers.
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The Old and New Testaments of the Bible are inspired of God, without error and they are the supreme and final authority in the faith and life of a believer.
In one God eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That man was created in the image of God and sinned against God which resulted in spiritual death and separation from God. God's saving grace is what enables us to have life again and is of God and not our human effort.
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary while she was still a virgin. He is true God and true man. Jesus offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for our sins by dying on the Cross. All who believe in Him, and accepts His saving grace through repentance and faith, will be saved and have eternal life. Jesus rose from the dead and is our only mediator to God.
