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Rochester Life Assembly Of God

9923-183rd Way South West
360-273-5379

Vision:

Helping people discover and become all God desires them to be.

Purpose:

Reach Up to God through Prayer and Worship,

Reach In to one another through Relationship and Discipleship and

Reach Out to our local and global community through Ministry and Witness.

Values:

We value People - Seeking to reach each person with the truth of Jesus Christ and the future and hope He offers each of us.

We value Healthy Relationships - Building a community that honors God through honesty, transparency, accountability and grace.

We value Lifelong Discipleship - Becoming more and more like Christ as we continually seek Him with all of our being.

We value Servant hood - Recognizing that every believer has God given talents and abilities that should be used consistently in service to others.

We value Stewardship - Believing all good things come from God and we are to use all we have to honor Him and serve others.

We value Unity - Having agreement in the essentials, grace in the non-essentials, and love in all things.

We value Joy - Celebrating who God is and what God has done because, in God's presence is the fullness of joy and that joy is our strength.

We value Excellence - Doing everything as unto the Lord; He is worthy of our best.

Beliefs:

We believe the scriptures are inspired by God and declare His design and plan for mankind.

We believe there is only One True God - revealed in three persons... Father, Son and Holy Spirit (commonly known as the Trinity).

We believe in the Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. As God's son Jesus was both human and divine.

We believe though originally good, Man Willingly Fell to Sin ushering evil and death, both physical and spiritual, into the world.

We believe every person can have restored fellowship with God through 'salvation' (accepting Christ's offer of forgiveness for sin).

We believe and practice two ordinances (1) Water Baptism by Immersion after repenting of one's sins and receiving Christ's gift of salvation and (2) Holy Communion (the Lord's Supper) as a symbolic remembrance of Christ's suffering and death for our salvation.

We believe the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a special experience following salvation that empowers believers for witnessing and effective service, just as it did in New Testament times.

We believe the initial physical evidence of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is 'speaking in tongues,' as experienced on the Day of Pentecost and referenced throughout Acts and the Epistles.

We believe sanctification initially occurs at salvation and is not only a declaration that a believer is holy, but also a progressive lifelong process of separating from evil as believers continually draw closer to God and become more Christlike.

We believe the Church has a mission to seek and save all who are lost in sin. We believe 'the Church' is the Body of Christ and consists of the people who, throughout time, have accepted God's offer of redemption (regardless of religious denomination) through the sacrificial death of His son Jesus Christ.

We believe a divinely called and scripturally ordained leadership ministry serves the church. The Bible teaches that each of us under leadership must commit ourselves to reach others for Christ, to worship Him with other believers, and to build up or edify the body of believers the Church.

We believe divine healing of the sick is a privilege for christians today and is provided for in Christ's atonement (His sacrificial death on the cross for our sins).

We believe in The Blessed Hope When Jesus raptures His Church prior to His return to Earth (the second coming). At this future moment in time all believers who have died will rise from their graves and will meet the Lord in the air and Christians who are alive will be caught up with them, to be with the Lord forever.

We believe in The Millennial Reign of Christ when Jesus returns with His saints at His second coming and begins His benevolent rule over earth for 1,000 years. At that time many in the nation of Israel will recognize and accept Him as the Messiah the Savior who died for them and all mankind.

We believe a final judgment will take place for those who have rejected Christ. They will be judged for their sin and consigned to eternal punishment in a punishing lake of fire.

We believe and look forward to the perfect New Heavens and a New Earth that Christ is preparing for all people of all time, who have accepted Him. We will live and dwell with Him there forever following His millennial reign on Earth. And so shall we forever be with the Lord!

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