Hymns What miracle! What Mystery!

Scripture Reading:

2 Tim. 3:16    All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

1 Tim. 2:5    For there is one God and one Mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

We want it to be known by all that the Christians in the local churches are absolute for the common faith and are the most orthodox of Christians. We have received the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. He is liv­ing in us as our life, and He is everything to us. We love Him, we serve Him, and we are seeking to bring many others to a living knowledge of Himself. We are meeting together in various localities simply as blood-washed, born-again, Spirit-filled Christians without any denomi­national affiliation, because we seek to give testimony to the unity of the Body of Christ. We welcome all true believers, and we seek fellowship with them as our brothers and sisters in Christ. It is our sincere and earnest desire that the Lord’s testimony on this earth may be spread and greatly strengthened in order that His Bride may be prepared for His soon return. May the Lord honor and vindicate His own work on this earth in these days.

OUR BELIEF

  1. We believe that the Holy Bible is the complete divine revelation verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit—2 Tim. 3:16; 2 Pet. 1:21.
  2. We believe that God is the only one Triune God — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit—co-existing equally from eternity to eternity—1 Tim. 2:5a; Matt. 28:19.
  3. We believe that the Son of God, even God Himself, became incarnated to be a man by the name of Jesus, born of the virgin Mary, that He might be our Redeemer and Savior—John 1:1, 14; Matt. 1:18, 20-21.
  4. We believe that Jesus, a genuine man, lived on this earth for thirty-three and a half years to make God the Father known to men—Phil. 2:7-8.
  5. We believe that Jesus, the Christ anointed by God with His Holy Spirit, died on the cross for our sins and shed His blood for the accomplishment of our redemption—1 Pet. 2:24; Eph. 1:7a.
  6. We believe that Jesus Christ, after being buried for three days, resurrected from the dead physically and spiritually and that, in resurrection, He has become the life-giving Spirit to impart Himself into us as our life and our everything—1 Cor. 15:45b; John 3:16.
  7. We believe that after His resurrection Christ ascended to the heavens and that God has made Him the Lord of all—Acts 1:9; 2:33, 36.
  8. We believe that after His ascension Christ poured down the Spirit of God to baptize His chosen members into one Body and that the Spirit of God, who is also the Spirit of Christ, is moving on this earth today to convict sinners, to regenerate God’s chosen people, to dwell in the members of Christ for their growth in life, and to build up the Body of Christ for His full expression—1 Cor. 12:13; Acts 2:4; 10:44-47; John 16:8; Eph. 1:22-23; 2:21-22.
  9. We believe that at the end of this age Christ will come back to take up His members, to judge the world, to take possession of the earth, and to establish His eter­nal kingdom—Acts 1:9, 11; 1 Thes. 4:15-17.
  10. We believe that the overcoming saints will reign with Christ in the millennium and that all the believers in Christ will participate in the divine blessings in the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth for eternity—Matt. 13:43; Rev. 21:6-7; 22:5. (The Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches, pp. 1-5)

Further Reading: The Beliefs and Practices of the Local Churches; CWWL, 1963, vol. 1, “Various Times of Fellowship with the Leading Ones in Los Angeles,” chs. 4, 6, 9