| Statement of Faith
Bikers
for Christ Motorcycle Ministry has been formed as a fellowship of believers in
the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be
conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We
believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's Agape love,
which is greater than any differences we possess and without which we have no
right to claim ourselves Christians.
We
believe worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain
flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
We
believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great
place to music in our worship.
We
believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our services
are designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He
might instruct us how He should be worshipped.
We
believe worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His
love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been
worshipping Him.
We
believe in all the basic doctrines of historic Christianity.
We
believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments
are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
We
believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.
We
believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all
things.
We
believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a
virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His
substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended
back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for
us.
We
believe in the personal, visible, second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.
He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no
end.
After
Jesus ascended
to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His
command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all
believers today.
We
believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for
their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered
to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and
accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that
person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his/her
sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend
eternity with the Lord.
We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit
mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are
exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the
best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ
might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most
spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is
worthless.
Bikers for Christ - Eastern Long Island
P.O. Box 411
Mastic Beach, NY 11951 |