Who We Are
Discovery Church is a group of real people seeking to
grow in our relationship with Christ and share his amazing love with
others. We are a contemporary church with a worship team and with
messages that come directly from the Bible. We believe that God wants a
relationship with his followers and that he speaks to them on a regular basis
through his Word. We believe God’s church is a place He designed where we
celebrate life with each other and develop relationships that help us grow in
our faith. We meet in a converted warehouse that has been built into a worship
center with rooms for nursery, kid’s church, and youth. You can come as
you are for our services and we welcome you to discover what God has for you.
What We
Believe
Discovery Church is affiliated with the Assemblies of
God fellowship. Our beliefs are theologically conservative, Christian,
and Pentecostal. Although there is accountability and oversight with our
fellowship, we are guided and directed by our pastor, board, and congregation.
The following are the basic doctrinal beliefs of Discovery Church:
THE BIBLE
The Bible
(Scriptures) is inspired by God and written by humans under the inspiration of
the Holy Spirit. The Bible is for everyone and declares God’s design and plan
for all humanity and is fully relevant for us today.
(2 Timothy
3:15-17; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Peter 1:21)
GOD
We believe
there is one true God revealed in three persons…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is holy, all powerful, all knowing, and ever present. It is in
him that we truly exist. He is the creator of heaven and earth and
desires to redeem everyone.
(Deuteronomy 6:4; Isaiah 43:10,11;
Matthew 28:19; Luke 3:22; Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14; John 14:16-17)
JESUS
The Lord
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. He is completely human and divine
at the same time. He lived a perfect life so he could be a substitution for us
in satisfying God’s demands for perfection. He defeated death in his
resurrection so that we could have life eternally.
(Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-23; Matthew 3:17; Matthew 8:29; Matthew 14:33; Matthew 16:16; Matthew 28:5-6; Luke
22:70; Luke 24:46-47; John 1:1, John 1:14; John 10:30; John 11:25-27; John 17:1-5; Acts 1:9; Acts 2:22-24;
Acts 7:55-56; Romans 1:3-4; Romans 3:23-26; Romans 8:1-3; Romans 10:4; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians
5:19-21; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15; Colossians 2:9; 1 Timothy
2:5-6; 1 Timothy 3:16)
HOLY SPIRIT
The Holy
Spirit is the third person of the Godhead and resides in every believer guiding
them into all truth and convicts them of their sin. He brings comfort and seeks
to make us more like Christ. All believers are entitled to the promise of
the Father with the baptism in the Holy Spirit as commanded by Jesus Christ.
This experience was normal in the early Christian Church and with it comes
power for life and service in the work of the ministry. As referenced
throughout Acts and the Epistles the initial physical evidence of the baptism
in the Holy Spirit is ‘speaking in tongues’ as experienced on the day of
Pentecost.
(Genesis 1:2;
Psalms 51:11; Psalms 139:7 ; Isaiah 61:1-3; Joel 2:28-32; Mark 1:10; Luke 1:35; Luke 4:1;
Luke 11:13; Luke 12:12; John 15:26; John 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:1-4; Acts 13:2; Romans 8:9-11, Romans 14-16; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 1 Corinthians 12:4-10, Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Peter 1:21;
Revelation 22:17)
MAN
Man(kind) is
made in the image of God and we are the supreme object of His creation. We were
created to have fellowship with God but became separated from God through
sinful disobedience. This disobedience ushered evil and death into the world
(both physical and spiritual death). As a result we cannot be restored to
God through our own efforts. (Genesis 1:26,27; Genesis 2:17; Genesis
3:6; Psalms 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Isaiah
6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 5:12-19)
SALVATION
Everyone can
have a restored relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Salvation occurs
when a person places his/her faith in Jesus; his life, death, and resurrection
as payment for our sin. Placing our faith in Christ is accepting his
offer of forgiveness for our sin. Salvation is a gift from God and it cannot be
earned by our own efforts.
(Luke 24:47; John 3:3; Romans 10:13-15; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; Ephesians 2:8-10;
Titus 2:11; Titus 3:5-7)
ETERNITY
We were
created to exist forever. We will exist either eternally separated from God by
our sin, or we will be eternally united with God through forgiveness and
salvation in Christ. Those eternally separated from God will reside in hell and
those united with God will reside with him in heaven. Heaven and hell are
places of eternal existence.
(John
3:16, 36; Romans 6:23; 1 John 2:25; 5:11-13; Revelation 20:15)
CHURCH
The church is
designed by God to be a community of believers in Christ committed to the
teachings of the Bible and seeking to obey the commands of scripture by the power
of the Holy Spirit. It is the mission of the church to bring the good
news of Christ to everyone in the world. The church works together in unity and
love in order to glorify God.
(Matthew
16:18-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-47; 5:11-14; 13:1-3; 14:23; 16:5; 20:28; 1
Corinthians 7:17; 9:13-14; 12; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:10-12; 5:22-32;
Colossians 1:18; 3:15; 1 Timothy 4:14; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 21:2-3)
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