The Promise Fellowship holds to fundamental biblical doctrines, with the Bible as the ultimate authority for truth.

The Promise Fellowship is firmly committed to the fundamental doctrines of the historic Christian faith, and the following are core doctrines for the church. While not all biblical doctrines are outlined in this statement of faith, but the following reflects our views on core doctrines and other important social topics.

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Core Biblical Doctrine

These topics are important core doctrines for The Promise Fellowship.

We believe that these doctrines are fundamental to the Christian faith. We view these as fundamental beliefs central to our of micro-fellowships, though this list does not include all fundamental doctrines that we believe in.


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The sole condition for receiving everlasting life is faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died a substitutionary death on the cross for man’s sin and rose bodily from the dead (John 3:16-18; 6:47; Acts 16:31).

Faith is the conviction that something is true. To believe in Jesus (“he who believes in Me has everlasting life”) is to be convinced that He guarantees everlasting life to all who simply believe in Him for it (John 4:14; 5:24; 6:47; 11:26; 1 Tim 1:16).

No act of obedience, preceding or following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, such as commitment to obey, sorrow for sin, turning from one’s sin, baptism, or submission to the Lordship of Christ, may be added to, or considered part of, faith as a condition for receiving everlasting life (Rom 4:5; Gal 2:16; Titus 3:5). This saving transaction between God and the sinner is simply the giving and receiving of a free gift (Eph 2:8-9; John 4:10 ; Rev 22:17).

Assurance of everlasting life is certainty that one is eternally secure simply by faith in Jesus. Assurance of everlasting life is based only on the promise God makes in His Word that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ alone possesses everlasting life (John 5:24; 1 John 5:9-13). Good works, which can and should follow regeneration, are not necessary for a person to have assurance of everlasting life (Eph 2:10 ; Titus 3:8).

Assurance is of the essence of believing in Jesus for everlasting life. That is, until a person believes in Jesus for everlasting life, he has not yet been born again. If a person believes the promise of everlasting life to the believer, then he knows he has everlasting life (John 5:24 ; 6:35, 47; 11:27 ; 1 John 5:9-13).

The goal of the Holy Spirit’s work in the believer’s life is to produce spiritual maturity, reflected in consistent Christlike behavior and attitudes (Gal 5:22-25; Luke 14:25-33; Col 1:23-29). Therefore, obedience to the Word of God, while not necessary for obtaining everlasting life, is the essential responsibility of each Christian (Rom 6:12-23; Heb 5:13-14; 1 Cor 2:14–3:4).

However, the Bible does not teach that this obedience will be manifested in all believers. If a believer does not yield to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in his experience, failure will result, evidenced by sinful acts or even prolonged disobedience (1 Cor 10:1-13; Gal 5:16-21).

It is inconsistent with the gospel and with Scripture to seek to gain or keep everlasting life by godly living. The Scriptures, however, do present several motivations for obedience in the Christian life.

A powerful motivation for living the Christian life is gratitude to God for saving us by His grace (Rom 12:1-2; 2 Cor 5:14 -15; Gal 2:20). We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).

Believers should also be motivated by the knowledge that their heavenly Father both blesses obedience and disciplines disobedience in His children (Gal 6:7; Heb 12:3-11; Lev 26:1-45).

Finally, every Christian must stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ, not to determine his eternal destiny, for that is already set, but to assess the quality of his Christian life on earth (2 Cor 5:10; Rev 22:12). Anticipating either reward or loss of reward at the Judgment Seat should also motivate believers to perseverance and to faithfulness to God’s revealed will (1 Cor 3:10 -17, 9:24 -27; Jas 5:8-9; 1 John 2:28). One’s capacity to glorify Jesus will forever be based on how faithful he was in his stewardship in this life (Luke 19:17, 19, 22-26).

Believers will spend eternity with the Lord on the New Earth in His glorious kingdom (1 Thess 5:10; Rev 21:1-3ff.).

Unbelievers, those whose names are not in the Book of Life, will spend eternity in eternal conscious torment (ECT) in the lake of fire (Isa 66:22-24; Dan 12:1-2; Matt 25:46; Gal 6:8; 2 Thess 1:5-10; Jude 13; Rev 14:9-11; 20:10-15).

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Other Social Issues

Where cultural preference and opinion, or scientific views disagree with biblical teachings, our stance is to defer to the biblical teaching on a particular topic. We affirm that the Bible is our sole source of ultimate and objective truth. Its contents may not be adapted to accommodate contemporary cultural opinions.

We believe that God created mankind in His image, and that the creation of mankind involved the creation and specification of two equal, yet fully distinct, and immutable genders (Gen 1.27).

Our gender and person are known even before conception (Jer 1.5; Psa 119.73, 139.13–16), physically determined upon birth, and therefore are not subject to change, regardless of one’s opinion or feelings.

We believe that marriage is a covenant relationship between one biological man and one biological woman. It is a covenant intended to be a lifelong commitment, though we recognize that this commitment may sadly end in a legal divorce before death.

We believe that a sexual relationship is permitted only between a consenting man and a consenting woman, and only within the confines of marriage. To think or act sexually in any manner not in line with this definition is sin.

If anyone’s sexual preference does not conform to this definition, that does not in any way preclude them from being given everlasting life. We know that the sole condition for everlasting life is belief in Jesus Christ, and requires absolutely no repentance of, sorrow for, or refusal of sin. However, we will not affirm any behavior, lifestyle, thoughts, or actions that are incompatible with biblical teachings.

We view that God knows every person, even before conception (Jer 1.5), therefore at the moment of physical conception, every person has begun to physically manifest into the person that God has already known. As a result, we believe that human physical life occurs from conception to physical death.

We do not affirm suicide, whether self-inflicted or assisted, though there are examples in the Bible of this act being committed by those who we hold are believers and thus who possessed irrevocable everlasting life (Jdgs 16.28–30; 1Sa 31.4). Suicide does not revoke a believer’s everlasting life, however, if one who has never believed commits suicide, he or she will not have another chance to believe. We believe that a person must be alive and believe to be given everlasting life (John 11.25-27). Furthermore, infanticide, abortion, or murder in no way revoke one’s everlasting life, or prevent anyone from being saved later.

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