Basic Doctrine

The Bible


We should believe in every word of the Bible, as all the books in the bible was canonized to project according to God's character and the events that happened. It is therefore important to read the bible consistently in order to achieve spiritual immunization and to guide us to the correct teaching of God. There are bound to be so many teachings out there, and the only way to be sure that it is according to God's way is to refer to the word of God through the Bible.


God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit


We have one God, existent in three persons: the Father, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. A way of understanding this is like when you see a man playing different roles of being a husband to his wife, a father to his children, and an employee to his employer. 3 different roles, but one same person.


We can look at God's function as the administrator, deciding on everything. Eversince the fallen of man, man no longer can have direct fellowship with God, as God cannot be associated with sin. Therefore he sent Jesus Christ as a mediator between us and God. We can view Holy Spirit as the operator. It was through the Holy Spirit that the sea was divided for Moses and the Israelites.


Angels and Evil Spirits


Initially God had 3 main Archangels (chief of the angels): Michael - Warfare, Lucifer - Worship, and Gabriel the Messenger. Lucifer was very beautiful leading worship in the heavens with a beautiful voice. Therefore out of pride, believing that he was better than God himself, Lucifer fell. God then sent Lucifer to "earth", with 1/3 of the angels following him. However, all the evil related events that happens around us are works done by evil spirits, Lucifer's labourers, not Lucifer himself. We may also have the perception that Lucifer is ugly, in red with horns on his head, however we should be careful as it may not be necessarily so as he indeed was very beautiful in form in the first place.


Man


The first couple, Adam and Eve, were created by God to have fellowship with God, therefore were created sinless and perfect. But as they ate the forbidden fruit and sinned, the fallen of men happened, and sin came into the world. This was when man stopped being able to see and have fellowship with God, when tigers grew its fangs, when roses started to have thorns. However, if Adam were to sin and immediately confess to God what he has done instead of hiding from God, as how we should when we sin, things would've been different. Therefore from then onwards, every man and of course women are born sinners.


Salvation


As man has fallen,and there was no guide for the people, sinners increased and this lead to the flooding for 40 days and 40 nights to reduce sins. At the time there wasnt a choice, as God cannot reach out to sinners, therefore there were no guides to teach them of Godly ways. Of course, men still sinned after that, which is why God sent Jesus Christ into the world, given birth as man by Mary through the Holy Spirit, to be among the people and teach them about God and eternal dwelling so that people would then have a choice to choose God's Kingdom over other things.

The Church


A church doesnt necessarily mean you need to build a building to be a church. As long as you have a gathering of a group of believers, may it be at the beach, or at your house, or at your office's facility (provided it's permitted yea), that would be called a church. It's not the shell that's important, it's what's inside it that is called a church.


Water Baptism

The total immersion in water symbolizes that the old has died (death) and you become a new creation (resurrection).

Communion

Holy Communion is taken as an act of remembering the love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

Once someone has received Jesus Christ in his/her life, you're able to partake the communion and go through baptism.

Worship Service

The reason why we should constantly go to church, or/and attend a caregroup/cellgroup/housegroup etc is to ensure that we're always directed to the correct path, teaching and understanding of the word of God. Everyone supports,motivates and encourages each other in a caregroup and church.

"Everyday they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved." Acts 2:46-47 (Full is Act 2:42-47)

Healing

God's normal intention is to heal us from any sickness except when God allows to leave this world to be with Him. Of course, there's always a reason and purpose on sickness being healed immediately or gradually. However, all this needs to be accompanied by prayer and to minister through the miraculous power of God. We do not reject intake of proper medicines or procedures from medical science.

Eternal Judgement

God's gift to all who believes in Him is eternal life and blessings with Him in heaven.

My Sharing

During today's service my tears kept falling. I can't help but feel so touched.

For all the times that I've sinned..that we've sinned, over and over again falling into temptations. No matter how many times I've forsaken Him, when I've fallen so hard, in the state I thought not worthy to be forgiven, He'd still be there everytime I look up, giving me hope, over and over again, telling me that everything will be alright.

And I started to cry, thinking how could I do that to Him over and over again?

At the end of 2008, I vowed that I will go to church every Sunday to thank Him for everything that He has done for me, for all I've gone through, also from then onwards I wanted Him to stay and be part of my life. From the day I made that vow and whole of 2009 until today, I can say I achieved at least 90% of what I have promised.

For 26 years, my mum had to remind me to go to Church. Forced me to attend the service. And I had to struggle and force myself to go, or even when I was willing, I didnt receive much from it. Not anymore.

So today onwards, whatever I've learned I will post it in here. My postings may need correction, therefore there's always room for discussion. I hope to someday be very good at this.

Introduction

I've always enjoyed writing. I used to blog before, stopped, blogged again, stopped..again. Not too long ago I thought of starting a new blog, so I created a new account (this new account), chose the theme, but while I was trying to find inspiration on to what this whole blog will be about I got stuck. Should I write about the news? About what’s happening all around me? Gibberish? I couldn’t think of anything that drives me for my entries then so I just logged out and pushed the blog plan aside.

Today, Sunday 17th January 2010, I finally found what I want to write about.

No, this blog will not focus too much about my life. It will be a sharing of my baby steps in getting to know more about Jesus. I am not trying to prove I’m close to being Godly, pretend that I know everything, because I dont. I dont know much about Him yet, but I'm on my way there.Through this blog I will share my life experiences as a testimony, as I learned that what I learn about God should not just be used for my own benefit, but to share with as many people as I can.

I am trying to get back on my feet into knowing Him again, to fall deeply in love with Him again. I know He’s reaching out His hand to help me back on my feet. I’ve decided to hold onto His hand because I need His strength to bring me up, and so I hope that you can take my hand as to join me learn more about Him too.

God Bless.