Gladiators for God statement of faith
Gladiators for God believes in and adheres to the
following faith principles
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in
their original writing as fully inspired of God and accept them as
the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in one God, eternally existing in three Persons -
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father,
conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and is true
God and true man.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that God created man in His own image; that man
sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin which is death,
physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful
nature which issues (in the cases of those who reach moral
responsibility) in actual transgression involving personal
guilt.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the principle of heterosexual relationships
between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of
lawful matrimony.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a
substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures and that all
who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed
blood.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His
ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and
Advocate.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the personal return of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that all who repent of their sin and receive the
Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and
thereby become children of God.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and
equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural
gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy
Spirit.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle,
Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust,
the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and the eternal banishment
of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that church leadership carry the responsibility for
oversight and care of the staff and members. Where necessary church
leadership must carry out biblical discipline for the protection of
the local church.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that the one true Church is the whole company of
those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the
Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its
character from this conception of the Church spiritual and
therefore, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are
essentials of Church membership.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances
- Baptism in water and the Lord's Supper - to be observed as acts
of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of
the Christian faith; that Baptism is the immersion of the believer
in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial
and resurrection and that the Lord's Supper is the partaking of the
emblems symbolic of the Saviour's broken body and shed blood, in
remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes that divine healing was provided for in the Old
Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
- The Gladiators for God ministry
believes the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can
see the Lord. The Gladiators for God ministry believes in the
doctrine of sanctification as definite, yet progressive work of
grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until
the consummation of salvation.
- The Gladiators for God ministry believes
that the Church is open to any further truth, which the Holy Spirit
may illuminate from the Scriptures.
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PS. Pieter de Waal worships at the
Living
Word church in Pretoria, South Africa.
Gladiators for God is not a ministry of
Living Word church. Living Word is therefore not accountable for
anything published on this website. However, Pieter de Waal, as a
member of Living Word, is subject to the discipline of this
church.
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