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What We Believe

At the core the belief that Serving Workers for the Harvest (SWH) stands on is:

  • We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
  • We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe in the deity and humanity of Christ, in his virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His present rule as Head of the Church, and His personal return in power and glory.
  • We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful men regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
  • We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
  • We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
  • We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ, with equality across racial, gender, and class differences.
  • We believe God’s plan for human sexuality is to be expressed only within the context of marriage and that the Biblical definition of marriage is exclusively the union of one man and one woman.
What We Believe - Bible open to the middle with sparkling light in the background

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Matthew 9:37-38 NIV

COMPLETE SALVATION AND THE SIN ISSUE

  • When a person makes his full commitment to the Lord Jesus Christ, he is by the Spirit put into the Body of Jesus Christ. In this vital union (I Cor. 12:13, Gal.3:27, Rom. 6:5), he is declared righteous (Rom. 3:21-26, Rom. 5:1), he is forgiven all sins, past, present, and future (Col.2:13, Eph.1:7, Isa 43:25), he is totally accepted by God (Rom. 5:1-2, Eph. 1:6, Eph. 4:30), there is no longer any condemnation (Rom. 8:1, Heb. 10:15-18, Ps. 130:3-4), and he has a perfect, unchangeable access to God (Heb. 10:19-22).
  • These truths are for every believer, whether or not he understands them or fully enters into a transforming realization of them in his experience. They are an absolute reality regardless of their apprehension by faith.
  • At the same time, sins still do arise in the experience of a believer and these sins can lead to feelings of guilt and estrangement, thus quenching the Spirit and causing a person to lose the consciousness (but not the FACT) of what he is and has IN CHRIST.
  • Sins must, therefore, be dealt with. This is accomplished primarily through the believer's acknowledging and confessing those sins (I John 1:9).
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