“Harvest Bible Church, has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational church, nor are we opposed to denominations as such, only to those who over-emphasize the doctrinal differences to the point of causing division in the Body of Christ.”
Statement of Faith
A Statement of Faith is a written declaration of the church’s position on matters that pertain to the essentials of historical Christianity. The following statements comprise Harvest Bible Church’ Statement of Faith:
We Believe In:
The Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that all believers need to be filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live a godly life and to be bold in our witness for the Lord. (Romans 8:13-14, 1 Corinthians 3:16, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, Ephesians 5:18)
Spiritual Unity
We believe in the spiritual unity of all genuine believers in the Lord Jesus Christ which is manifested by the spiritual gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit’s presence through His love. (I Corinthians 12:12-13, Galatians 5:22-23, Ephesians 4:8-12)
God's Plan for Israel
We believe that the nation of Israel has a special place in God’s plan, and that all of the promises of God to Israel will be fulfilled both now and in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in His millennium. (Genesis 12:3, Psalm 122:1)
The Sanctity of Marriage
We believe marriage is a sacred covenantal union between a man and a woman that limits sexual relations to monogamous, heterosexual marriage. (Genesis 2:24)
Marriage is a sacred and profound event that shall be entered into only where the proposed covenantal union is in compliance with the Word of God. (Genesis 4:1)
Marriage between men and women of the same sex is contrary to the Word of God and is a sin before God. (Romans 1:21-27)
Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We Reject:
Demon Possession In Believers
We Reject the belief that true Christians can be demon possessed and are helpless against the craft and wiles of the Devil.
Limited Atonement
We Reject any philosophy or theology which denies that human freewill can be exercised in the receiving of Christ’s free gift of salvation; specifically, we reject the belief that Jesus’ atonement was limited in its extent, instead, we believe that He died for all unrighteous people and that any perceived limitation rests in one’s free rejection of Christ’s finished work of atonement, and we reject the assertion that God’s wooing grace cannot be resisted or that He has elected some people to go to hell; instead we believe that anyone who wills to come to Christ may do so freely as a result of the Holy Spirit’s conviction and wooing persuasion of the heart;
Positive Confession (Word of Faith Movement)
We Reject “positive confession,” (e.g., the Faith Movement, that views faith as a force that can create one’s own reality or that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to man’s will and faith);
Prophesy Inconsistent with Scripture
We Reject human prophecy that supersedes or is contrary to Scripture;
Pop-Psychology Inconsistent with Scripture
We Reject any introduction of psychology and philosophy which is contrary to Scripture and is in substance “according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ” into biblical teaching;
Open Theism (Freewill Theism)
We Reject “Open Theism” or “Freewill Theism” which reduces God’s timeless, unchanging, dynamic nature, and exhaustive foreknowledge of future free decisions, to creaturely modes of being and operation;
The Emergent Church Movement
We Reject the “Emergent Church” movement insofar as it departs from the historic orthodox Christian doctrines in favor of postmodernism, and
Overemphasis of Spiritual Gifts
We Reject the overemphasis of spiritual gifts, experiential signs and wonders to the exclusion of biblical teaching.