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We have One Great Emphasis . Gospel City Church makes the chief aim of life to be the Glory of God. Therefore, we measure our fellowship and view everything we do through the lens of the glory of God. He is to be First in All Things (Colossians 1:18), and the goal of everything is to be His glory. (Romans 11:36)
What kind of Church is Gospel City Church? Gospel City Church is a confessional church.” Confessional simply means that one subscribes to a historic confession of the Christian faith as a summary of one's Core Christian convictions.
There are three distinct marks that form Gospel City Church
Reformed: We rejoice in God’s sovereign grace in saving sinners, embrace the five solas of the Reformation and uphold the 1689 Confession of Faith as a summary of our core beliefs.
- We hold to both the inerrancy of Scripture and the sufficiency of Scripture. That means not only do we hold that all of Scripture is God's Word, but that it is sufficient to accomplish all that God wants to do in His Church without any other human means. The proclamation of Scripture, therefore, is the center of our worship.
- The foundation stones of our doctrine are the Five Solas (Alone statements) expressed in the protestant reformation: Scripture Alone, Christ Alone, Grace Alone, Faith Alone, and the Glory of God Alone.
- We uphold the essential doctrines of the historic Christian faith as set out in creeds such as the Apostles’ Creed, Nicene Creed, and Athanasian Creed. Our church’s confession is The Second London Baptist Confession of 1689. While we affirm Sola Scriptura, we recognise this confession as a trustworthy summary of Scripture's teaching.
- Covenant theology. We view the Bible as a unified whole, telling the story of God's providence in bringing people from every tribe, language, people, and nation to Himself through the Covenant of Grace.
Baptist : We believe that Baptism via immersion and the Lord’s Supper is for those with a credible profession of faith in Jesus Christ. We also believe that elder led, congregational upheld best reflects the pattern revealed in Scripture for Church governance. - Baptism by immersion: In every clear example of baptism, the Bible gives us, the method, or “mode”, of baptizing is the same. Believers are baptized by immersion. The Greek word baptize means “to plunge, dip, or immerse something under water.” The symbolism of union with Christ in his death, burial and resurrection seems to require baptism by immersion (Romans 6:1-4). Gospel City Church performs believers’ baptisms only, which means we reject infant Baptism as unscriptural and invalid in the life of a professing Christian.
Church: We are a people chosen by the Father, saved by Christ’s work, and regenerated by the Spirit of God, called out of the world, gathered as a local autonomous body, committed to discipleship and evangelism to the glory of God. - A careful reading of the NT epistles shows that the apostles assumed that the readers were ‘saints’, ‘faithful brethren’, and ‘cleansed by Christ.Scripture says in Ephesians 5:25 that “Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy.” The term ‘the church’ applies to all those who are saved by the death of Christ. That necessarily includes all true believers for all time – both believers in the New Testament age and believers in the Old Testament age.
- Means of grace: The means of grace are God's appointed instruments by which the Holy Spirit enables believers to receive Christ and the benefits of redemption. God assigned the Word (Read, sung, and preached), ordinances (Baptism, Lord's Supper), and prayer as the foremost means He communicates Christ and His benefits to believers.
- The Lord's Day: The Lord's Day is a Christian institution for regular observance. It should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion, both in public and private.
PREACHING
We believe that the primary and most important part of worship is the systematic reading and expository preaching of God’s Word. This is precisely because everything is to be governed and disciplined by Holy Scripture. How would we accurately know the God we worship apart from the Scriptures? How would we know how to worship God acceptably apart from the Scriptures? How would we know what to believe or how to live apart from the Scriptures? It is through the preaching of His Word that God is pleased to grant faith (Romans 10:17) and strengthen faith (John 17:16). The preaching of God’s Word is the primary and ordinary means of evangelism (Romans 10:14, 1 Corinthians 1:21) and of making disciples (Matthew 28:20). The preaching of God’s Word is also the primary means by which God’s people become mature in the faith and more like Christ (John 17:16; Ephesians 4:11-16). The preaching of the Word in truth is nothing less than Christ Himself, by His Spirit, preaching to us (Ephesians 2:17; 2 Corinthians 5:20;Romans 10:14b). And what Christ has to say to His church in His Word and by His Spirit is far more important than anything we might have to say to Him in our prayers and praises. “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit [of Christ] says to the churches” (Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; 3:6, 13, 22). Sadly, fewer and fewer churches have ‘an ear’ for sound, Biblical teaching. The Apostle Paul exhorted his son in the faith, Timothy, that in the face of this inevitable falling away from preaching, he was to continue to preach the Word even when it is no longer popular to do so (2 Timothy 4:1-5). Therefore, we purposely devote the majority of the worship time to preaching, and by God’s grace will persevere in this commitment, despite the spirit of our age.
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