Gospel Power Evangelical Church exists Since 2021 to serve God through proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ to the people of Portland metero area and all over the world, so that people may have eternal life. By demonstrating the power of the Holy Spirit, we help people to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to be freed from bondage, to become disciples of Christ, and to be salt and light for the glory of God by equipping them with sound biblical teachings.
Mustard seed is small but It be comes grater than all. mat 13:31-33
Mission/vision
By demonstrating the Power of the Holy Spirit, to Evangelize unbelievers and making them Spirit filled disciples of Christ and equipping them with sound biblical teachings.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
I. THE TRIUNE GOD
We believe that there is ONE living and Triune God, eternally existing in three persons: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; equal in power and in glory; and that this Triune God created, sustains and governs all.
A.THE FATHER, we believe God the Father is eternal, omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. God is absolutely Holy , righteous and just. His love and mercy were manifested in the atoning death of His only begotten Son on Calvary.
B. THE SON, we believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious sufferings and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His personal return in power and glory.
C. The Holy Spirit is one with the Father and with the Son in the triune Godhead and possesses all of the distinctivelydivine attributes. He is God, present and active in the world, ministering conviction of sin to sinners and regeneration to penitents. The Holy Spirit is God’s gift to believers, in whom He resides. He ministers comfort, assurance, guidance, and victory. He is the agent of sanctification in the believer’s life, producing progressive growth in Spirit-fruit. He empowers believers and works through them in the distribution, manifestation, and ministry of spiritual gifts.
II. THE HOLY SCRIPTURE
The Holy Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. We believe that the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament are verbally inspired by God (II Timothy 3:16), that they are inerrant and infallible in their original writings, and that they are the supreme and final authority for faith and practice.
III. THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN
Man was created in the image of God, sinless, in perfect holiness and fellowship with God; as male and female, equal before God as persons and distinct in manhood and womanhood, with male responsibility for headship in the home and in the church;] as a being of choice who willfully disobeyed God, bringing alienation, depravity, death, and eternal lostness to the human race through Adam’s sin.
IV. THE SALVATION
We believe that salvation is the gift of God by grace alone Salvation is the free gift of God’s grace based on the work of Jesus Christ on the cross and reserved through repentance and personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Salvation is received through repentance towards God, confession by mouth, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, His Son
VI. THE CHURCH
We believe that the church of Jesus Christ is the universal body of called out redeemed believers committed to Jesus Christ as Lord, and finds expression in the local church in worship, fellowship, holiness, discipline, teaching and preaching the Word, prayer, spiritual gifts, and the New Testament ordinances. We believe that the body of Christ is composed of all born-again believers everywhere without respect to race, color or denomination.
VII. THE SATAN
We believe that Satan is a fallen angel who had rebelled against God. Satan is the originator of sin and the cause of the fall of man. He opposing God’s kingdom, seeking to destroy God’s people, holding many people in bondage, Satan was defeated in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, is restricted in his activity by God’s power and permission and is destined for eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
VIII. THE ORDINANCES
Water Baptism: We believe that baptism in water shall be by immersion in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and shall be administered to only those who give evidence of being born again. water baptism identifies believer with Christ in His way of the cross and resurrection.
B, Lord’s Supper: We believe that the Lord’s Supper is to be observed by all believers . It is a sign to remember the new covenant Jesus established with the death of the cross. It is a memorial of our Lord’s sufferings and death which will be observed until He returns.
IX. THE HOLINESS
We believe that sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil and of dedication unto God. The Bible teaches a life of holiness “without which no man shall see the Lord” (Hebrews 12:14).
XI. PRIST HOOD OF ALL BELIVERS
We Believe in the Priesthood of the Believer. We believe in the priesthood of the believer. That is say, all people, born of God have equal status before, and direct access to, their Lord.
XII. EQUIPPING OF THE SAINTS FOR MINISTRY
We Believe in the Equipping of the Saints for the Work of the Ministry, we believe that the calling of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher are functional within the Body of Christ until the Lord’s return. Furthermore, these ministries are gifts to the church for that the purpose of equipping the saints for the work of the ministry, that the Body of Christ will be edified. (Ephesians 4:11-16)
XIII. MARRAGE AND DIVORCE
We believe that the term “marriage” has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as described in Scripture (Genesis 2:18-25, Malachi 2). We believe that God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other (1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5, Hebrews 13:4). We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe that God hates divorce.
XIV. DIVINE HEALING
We believe that divine healing is an integral part of the Gospel. God intended healing to be a normative experience in the life of His Church. Healings, miracles, signs and wonders did not cease, Jesus commanded his followers to continue His ministry on earth.
XV. THE KINGDOM OF GOD
The kingdom of God is both not yet present and already present. The kingdom of God is the realm where God reigns- His sovereign action in the world to redeem and deliver a people and then at a future time finish it. The present reality is visible on earth, especially in the church, the kingdom is extended on earth by evangelization and is expressed in Gospel preaching,
XVI. THE LAST THIINGS
A. The Heaven and Hell. We believe that heaven is the hope and the eternal home of the saved and that hell is a literal place of eternal separation from God for those who are unsaved.
B. The Second coming of Jesus. We believe in the literal second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The end of this age and the coming of the glorious future of the kingdom will be marked by the personal return of Jesus Christ.