We believe in the transformative power of the Gospel and seek to share it.
Worship/Praise Band
Worship/Praise Band
Senior Pastor
Associate Pastor
Associate Pastor
Associate Pastor
Deacon
Deacon
Deacon
Deacon
Treasurer
Secretary
Administrator
Worship Leader
Worship Leader
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 16, 2024
Sunday Service is normally 1hr and 30mins. We start at 10am with an opening verse (Psalms) followed by a prayer. Then we go into around 30 minutes of worship and praise. At the end of music we make announcements, take up the tithes and offerings, and then pray for the needs of the church and members. At the conclusion of the prayer we call up the Pastor and he delivers the sermon. At the conclusion of the sermon we have an alter call and then dismissal.
Our worship teams play both English and Spanish music. Normally all items spoken at the pulpit will be in English.
Wednesday Service is a Bible study night. We open the service with a verse reading (Psalms) followed by a prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer the bible study teacher is called up to conduct the bible study. At the conclusion of the bible study we close and dismiss with a prayer.
The vision of United Temple of Faith Church is to love people where they are, using all means to introduce people to God’s transforming love. Together we will intentionally and patiently guide one another as we continue in the process of becoming Faithful Followers of Jesus Christ.
We value the Bible as the inspired, infallible Word of God and anointed teaching derived from it as the catalyst for transforming individual lives and the Church more into the likeness of our Lord, Jesus Christ. We value ministry that builds relationships with lost people because we believe that lost people matter to God and should also matter to us. We will build relationships through our involvement and support of evangelistic efforts locally.
We value ministry that is doctrinally pure and culturally relevant because we believe the gospel message is timeless and unchanging but its presentation must be tailored to insure it is heard and received by the audience. We will remain faithful but will not permit institutionalization or tradition to prevent us from communicating the gospel in culturally relevant ways.
We value discipleship - the continuous growth of every Christian in biblical knowledge, wisdom, stewardship and service - because we believe that growth is necessary for all believers in order for them to become focused and flexible servants of Jesus Christ. We value a church that engages every believer in ministry on the basis of their spiritual gifts because we believe every member of the body of Christ has been given a spiritual gift by God and intended to be used for the common good of His church. This means that the church will be led by leaders, taught by teachers, shepherded by shepherds and administered by administrators.
We value ministry that is characterized by love, forgiveness and accountability because we believe that all people will know we are Christ's disciples if we have Christ-like love for one another. We value small group ministry because we believe that as a church grows in numbers, small groups are the best place for people to feel part of the body of Christ, to be cared for and to experience the life-changing power of Jesus Christ.
We value excellence in all things and all things to the glory of God because we believe that excellence honors God and inspires people.
We value human life from the moment of conception to the last earthly breath and the family as the basic building block for all societies because we believe that this is the way God created life to be lived out.
We value a church whose members can clearly and articulately express a biblical worldview because we believe the vitality of the church can be measured by the level of positive impact it is having on the culture.
I. The Bible:
We believe the Bible, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament, is the fully inspired and inerrant Word of God. It is the product of holy men who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. We accept the New Covenant as recorded in the New Testament, as our infallible guide and supreme authority in matters pertaining to conduct and doctrine. (Mark 13:31), (John 8:31-32), (2 Timothy 3:16), (1 Corinthians 2:7-14), (2 Peter 1:20-21)
II. The Trinity:
We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; equally divinely perfect, each executing distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption. (Genesis 1:1), (Genesis 1:26), (Matthew 28:19), ( John 4:24), (Ephesians 4:5-6)
We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. We believe that God mercifully concerns himself with the affairs of men; that He hears and answers prayers; that He saves from sin and death those who come to Him through His Son Jesus Christ. We believe that He orders and disposes of all things according to His own purpose and grace. (1 Timothy 1:1-2), (1 Timothy2:5-6), (1 Peter 1:3)
We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe that He was born of a virgin, that He lived a sinless life while He performed miracles, signs and wonders. We believe in His substitutionary, propitiatory death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal, visible return to earth. We believe that through His death and resurrection, Jesus Christ assures every believer liberty from the punishment, the penalty, and the power of sin, and that He declares all believers justified (righteous) giving each eternal life and spiritual adoption into the family of God. (Matthew 1:18-25), (John 1:1), (Acts 1:11), (Romans 5:6-8), (Romans 6:9-10), (Romans 6:22-23), (2 Corinthians 5:21), (1 Peter 2:21-23)
We believe in Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father to convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. We believe that the Holy Spirit is the supernatural sovereign agent of regeneration. It is His work to indwell, instruct, empower for service, sanctify, and seal until the day of redemption all who believe on Jesus. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher, and guide; He is a divine person, eternal, and possessing all the attributes of personality and attributes of deity. He is coequal and coeternal with the Father and the Son. (John 14:16-17), (John16:7-15), (Romans 8:9),(Romans 8:14-17), (1 Corinthians 3:16), (Galatians 5:22-25), (Ephesians 1:13)
III. Man, His Fall and Redemption:
We believe that man is a created being made in the likeness and image of God. We believe that all of humanity descended from Adam, and that through his transgression and fall, sin entered into the world. We believe that all of humanity is thus sinful by nature, by choice, and by divine declaration, spiritually dead in their trespasses and sins. However, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, was manifested to redeem and restore man back to God by the shedding of His blood and giving His life. We believe that those who repent, forsake sin, and trust Jesus Christ as Savior, are benefactors of God’s sovereign grace, are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, become new creatures, are delivered from condemnation, and are recipients of eternal life. We believe salvation is the gift of God to man, separate from works and the law. (Genesis 1:26-27), (Genesis 2:7), (Genesis 2:16-17), (John 3:36), (Romans 3:9-12), (Romans 3:22-25), (Romans 6:23), (Ephesians 2:1-3), (Ephesians 2:8)
IV. The New Birth, Salvation, and Eternal Life:
We believe that man’s first step toward salvation is Godly sorrow that worketh repentance. We further believe that the new birth is necessary for all men and only after it is fulfilled is eternal life produced. (2 Corinthians 7:10), (1 John 5:12), (John 3:3-7), (John 3:16)
V. Water Baptism:
We believe in baptism in water by immersion as commanded and demonstrated by our Lord, Jesus Christ. We believe water baptism is for believers only and is one of the two ordinances of the Christian Church. We believe water baptism is symbolic identification with Christ, His death, burial, and resurrection. All water baptisms performed under the United Temple of Faith's direction will be under the following: Upon the confession of your faith, we now baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost in Jesus Name, Amen. (Matthew 3:13-17), (Matthew 28:19), (Romans 6:3-5)
VI. Baptism in the Holy Spirit:
We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift from God as promised by the Lord Jesus Christ to those who have received Him as Lord and Savior (The Born Again Believer). We believe there are diversities of gifts of the Spirit but the same Spirit. The Holy Spirit divides them unto man as He wills. We believe that the gift of speaking in other tongues as He, the Holy Spirit, gives utterance is one of many evidences (manifestation) of His indwelling within the Believer. (Matthew 3:11), (John 14:16-17), (Acts 1:8), (Acts 2:38-39), (Acts 19:2-6), (Acts 2:4)
VII. Justification:
We believe that justification is the act of God by which He declares man righteous. The righteousness is apart from any virtue or work of man and involves the imputation of our sins to Christ and the imputation of Christ's righteousness to us. By this means, God is able to be just, and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:26), (Romans 8:33), (Romans 3:20), (Romans 4:6), (Ephesians 2:8-9), (Colossians 2:14), (1 Peter 2:24), (1 Corinthians 1:30), (2 Corinthians 5:21), (Romans 3:26)
VIII. Sanctification:
We believe that every genuine believer experiences justification before God. Therefore, having been justified, we believe that in the daily life of the believer, he/she is being progressively conformed to the likeness of Christ as a result of the work of grace which commences at the time of regeneration and continues until consummation of salvation. (Hebrews 12:14), (1 Thessalonians 5:23), (2 Peter 3:18), (2 Corinthians 3:18), (Philippians 3:13-14), (1 Corinthians 1:30)
IX. Divine Healing:
We believe in the physical healing of the human body, which is wrought by the power of God through the prayer of faith and by the laying on of hands. Healing is provisional by Christ's atoning sacrifice and is the privilege of every member of the Church today. (Mark 16:16), (James 5:14-20), (1 Peter 2:24), (Matthew 8:17), (Isaiah 53:45)
X. Resurrection of the Just and the Return of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:
We believe that the same Jesus who ascended will in like manner come again. His coming is forthcoming and when He comes, those who are dead in Christ shall rise first. They which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Subsequent to the tribulation, He will return to earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and He shall reign for a hundred years. (Acts 1:11), (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17), (Revelation 20:6)
XI. Hell and Eternal Retribution:
We believe that those who physically die in their sins without Christ are hopelessly and eternally lost and will be cast into the lake of fire, having no further opportunity to hear the Gospel or to repent for sin. The lake of fire is a real place and just as eternal and everlasting applies and denotes an never ending duration of joy and ecstasy for Saints in the presence of God, likewise is the duration of the punishment of the damned. (Hebrews 10:27), (Revelation 19:20), (Hebrews 6:1-2)
XII. Communion:
We believe that the Lord's Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that this ordinance should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bread symbolizes the Lord’s broken body. The cup represents the new covenant of His blood which avails to the Believer forgiveness and relationship with God. We do not believe that this ordinance nor the ordinance of water baptism holds any salvific value; that is, they do not convey saving grace upon the recipient but are rather acts of obedience subsequent to the New Birth. (1 Corinthians 11:23-31), (Romans 6:3-5)
XIII. Religious Liberty:
We believe it is the privilege of all true believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God’s Word; however, we also believe that the use of Christian liberty to excuse sinful living or carnality is strictly forbidden by the same Word of God. (Romans 6:1-2), (Romans 6:15-22); (Galatians 5:13), (Galatians 5:25-26), (Titus 2:11-14)
XIV. Marriage
We believe God's plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage, that God created man and woman as unique biological persons made to complete each other. We believe the term marriage has only one meaning: the uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in Scripture. We believe God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. We believe God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of a marriage between a man and a woman. We believe any form of sexual immorality (including adultery, fornication, homosexual conduct, bestiality, incest, or use of pornography) is sinful and offensive to God. (Gen. 2:18-25); (1 Corinthians 6:18), (1 Corinthians 7:2-5), (Hebrews 13:4), (Matthew 15:18-20), (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
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