Beliefs

Core Values

Lake Community Fellowship is committed to building its ministries on seven Pillars found in Acts 2:42-47. These pillars are firmly secure on the foundation of Jesus Christ.

Word | Fellowship | Prayer | Holy Spirit | Accountability | Stewardship | Worship

What We Believe

GOD

We believe that God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of all mankind. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. We believe that there is one triune God, eternally existent as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are all together separate and all together one. He created the universe, man in His image, and is the Savior of all people.

(Genesis 1:1,26-27, Genesis 3:22; Psalm 90:2; Matthew 28:19; John 5:18,23; John 10:29,30; l John 5:7; II Corinthians 13:14) 

JESUS CHRIST

We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His vicarious and atoning death, and in His bodily resurrection. We believe that Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person made reconciliation between God and man. 

(John 1:1-5; Colossians 1:15-17; Matthew 1:22, 23; II Corinthians 5:21; Romans 3:25; Acts 1:9-11; Acts 2:32-33; I Thessalonians 4:16-18; Hebrews 4:14-15)

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe the Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son of God. We believe the Holy Spirit immediately indwells within a person at the point of salvation guaranteeing the inheritance of eternal life. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling helps us live for Him every day. The Holy Spirit connects people to Christ, equips them in their relationship with God, and helps them share Christ with people who do not know Him. We believe in the present day exhibition of the power of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

(l John 5:7,8; Acts 1:8; Acts 4:31; Romans 8:9-15; II Corinthians 1:21, 22;  I Corinthians 12:4-6, 27-28, 31; Ephesians 5:18)

THE BIBLE

We believe the entire bible is the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative, eternal Word of God. God gave the bible to us through men who were moved by the Spirit to write the words of scripture. The bible is the truth without any mixture of error. It can and should shape the way we live.

(II Timothy 3:16, 17; Hebrews 4:12; II Peter 1:21; Isaiah 40:8; Psalm 119:89,105,160; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; Proverbs 30:5)

SALVATION

We believe that mankind was created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him. However, mankind became alienated from that relationship through sinful disobedience. When sin entered the world, that sin separated us from our Creator, a Holy God, and left man incapable of coming back into a right relationship with God, by his own effort. Salvation is by grace through faith and is found in Christ alone and what He did on the cross. Both justification and sanctification are the works of the Holy Spirit in those who trust in Jesus.

(Genesis 1:27-28; Romans 3:22-26; Romans 5:8; Romans 6:23; John 3:5, 6; Titus 3:5, 6; Psalm 8:3-6; Ephesians 2:8; Galatians 3:2-3; I Peter 1:2)

THE CHURCH

We believe that the church is the body of Christ of which Jesus Christ is the Head. The church is made up of people growing in God, celebrating God together, connecting to each other, serving those in need, and sharing Christ in their community. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by loving Him and by making Him known to a lost world. The mission of the church is to love God and love people by fulfilling the Great Commission.

(Ephesians 4:15-16; Colossians 1:18; Acts 2:42-46; Luke 24:46-48; Acts 1:8; Matthew 22:37-39, Matthew 28:18-20)

ETERNAL LIFE

We believe that Jesus Christ will return to the earth one day to take everyone who believes in Him as their Savior, to live for eternity in heaven.  People who have not chosen to accept Christ will be separated from God for eternity and will not be able to experience heaven, but will experience eternal damnation.  Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If a person has been genuinely saved, that person cannot lose their salvation. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security.

(John 5:28, 29; I Corinthians 15:20-23; Romans 3:20-23; l Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:6-8; John 10:29; Hebrews 7:25, Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 1:3-5; John 5:24)

BAPTISM AND COMMUNION

We believe the two scriptural ordinances of a New Testament church are water baptism and communion. We follow our Lord’s command to give public evidence of our salvation with baptism by immersion in water and faithfully remember Christ’s cleansing blood and broken body with the elements of holy communion. Water baptism and holy communion are not required for salvation, however, they are biblical commands that demonstrate a person’s faith in Christ and obedience to Him.

(Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:38-41, Acts 8:12-13, Acts 16:30-33; Ephesians 2:8-9; Matthew 26:26-29, Luke 22:14-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-30)