Our Vision:To be an estuary of the Holy Spirit
~Rooted in Christ, Growing in Love~


OUR MISSION: Pleasing GOD And Advancing HIS Kingdom!

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Our  Statement Of  Faith

At Yorktown Vineyard Community Church our main goal is to be pleasing to God.  The Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 5:9 and again in Romans 12:1-2 exhorts all Christians to have this as their ambition.  In Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus teaches that the greatest of God's commandments is to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."  He also teaches that the second greatest commandment is, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."  In the hope of pleasing God and in the hope of keeping His commandments our purpose is stated as follows:

To Love Our God:  It is our desire that each of us cultivated a deep and meaningful relationship with God through prayer, worship, and the study of His Holy Scriptures; loving the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

To Love One Another:  We also desire to train, disciple, and encourage Christian believers in the teachings of Jesus Christ so that they will live godly, victorious lives that are pleasing to God.  We also encourage each person to develop their natural and spiritual gifts and callings, and we promote love, fellowship and unity among believers.

To Love Our Neighbor:  In order to "love our neighbor as ourselves,"  it is our purpose to minister to the local community through physical as well as spiritual means, to make disciples (Matthew 28:19), and to spread the Good News of the Kingdom of God both in the local community and in the world at large through missions, outreach, charity, evangelism, and any other work the Lord may direct.

What We Believe

  1.  We believe the Holy Bible to be the inspired, only infallible, authoritative Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter. 1:19-21)
  2. We believe that there is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4), revealed in the three persons of the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (John 14;16-17, 26, 15:26; Colossi ans 1:15-20; Colossians 2:9)
  3. We believe that Jesus Christ was both fully human and fully God (Philippians 2:5-8; Hebrews 4:15), that He is the expressed "image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15), that He is to be worshiped, praised, and adored not only for what He has done, but for who He is (Revelation 5:8-10).
  4. We believe that Jesus Christ was born when "the Word became flesh", and that He was born of a virgin (Matthew 1:18, John 1:14)
  5. We believe that Jesus Christ was the propitiation for our sin, completely fulfilling all righteousness and the Law (2 Corinthians 5:21).  We believe that He was sorely tempted, but neither yielded to temptation nor ever sinned (Matthew 4:1-10, Hebrews 4:15)
  6. We believe that Jesus Christ died, was buried, and physically rose again from the dead on the third day in accordance with Scripture (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)
  7. We believe that salvation from sin is a free gift of God's grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9) and that a person is saved by faith and confession in Jesus and in His resurrection from the dead (Romans 10:9-10).
  8. We believe in the biblical command of Jesus Christ to be baptized by immersion in water in the Name of the Lord, as an act of obedience to the Lord and the public confession of faith in Him ( Matthew 3:15, 28:19; Mark 1:9-10; Acts 8:38-39, 10:48; Romans 6:3-5)
  9. We practice the sacrament of Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, in remembrance of Him (Matthew 26:26-29; Mark 14;22-25; Luke 22:19-20; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)
  10. We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as an endowment of power for those that receive Christ, for the work of Christian service.  We recognize that speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit gives utterance is one of the outward manifestations of the baptism in the Holy Spirit ( Mark 16:17; Acts 2:1-15, 10:44-48)
  11. We believe Jesus Christ will soon physically return to the earth in power and great glory to judge all mankind, after which the righteous will be established in His eternal kingdom (Matthew 24:27-31; Acts 1:11; Revelation 20:15)
  12. We believe in the resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous; the righteous to eternal life with God and the unrighteous to eternal damnation in Hell (Matthew 25:31-46; John 5;28-29; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:12-15)


 
 



    

   

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