What We Believe

Core Values

  • To create and nurture a unique family environment where every individual has the opportunity to seek, find and reach their fullness in Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit

  • ‘Go out Into the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in so that my house will be full’ Luke 14:23

  • We will fulfill our mission by adherence to the truth through the word of God, living as a light in a dark world & being a constant and continuous responder to need.

  • Bible, Marriage, Family, Relationship, Each Other, Community

  • Widows, Orphans, Homeless, Less Fortunate, Lost Sheep

Compel cultivates an environment that encourages relationship-first with Jesus, to Know HIM and make HIM Known, and then with one another, where every person that walks through our doors is SEEN, LOVED, and fully KNOWN. We are a community marked by LOVE IN ACTION, living out the Mission of Luke 14:23 to GO OUT and COMPEL them to come in. COMPELLED by Christ’s Love our heart is for everyone to CONNECT & BELONG.

Doctrinal Statement

  • We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the accepted canon of the Scriptures as originally given. (2 Timothy 3:16; 1 Corinthians 2:13)

  • We believe in the Eternal Godhead who has revealed Himself as ONE God existing in THREE persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, distinguishable but indivisible. (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14)

  • We believe in the creation, test, and fall of man as recorded in Genesis; man’s total spiritual depravity and inability to attain divine righteousness. (Romans 5:12, 18)

  • We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of men, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, very God and very man. (Luke 1:26-35; John 1:18; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6)

    Christ died for our sins and rose again

    We believe Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day, and personally appeared to His disciples. (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 4:25)

    Ascension and return of Jesus Christ

    We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven, His exaltation, and personal, literal, and bodily coming again the second time for the Church. (John 14:2-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)

    The salvation of sinners by Grace, Through Repentance and Faith

    We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and sufficient work of the cross of Calvary, by which we obtain remission of sins. (Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 9:12; Romans 5:11)

  • Water baptism by immersion

    We believe in water baptism by immersion in the name of God. (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:36-39; 19:1-6)

    Baptism of the Holy Spirit

    We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an experience subsequent to salvation, with the Scriptural evidence. (Acts 2:1-4; 8:14-17; 10:44-46; Galatians 3:14-15)

  • We believe in the operation of the gifts of the Spirit as enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12-14, manifested in the Early Church.

  • We believe in the Spirit-filled life, a life of separation from the world and perfecting of holiness in the fear of God as an expression of christian faith. (Ephesians 5:18; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 7:1)

  • We believe in the healing of the body by divine power or divine healing in its varied aspects as practiced in the Early Church. (Acts 4:30; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 12:9; James 5:14)

  • We believe in the Table of the Lord, commonly called Communion or the Lord’s Supper, for believers. (1 Corinthians 11:23-32)

  • We believe in eternal life for believers (John 5:24; 3:16) and eternal punishment for unbelievers. (Mark 9:43-48; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 20:10-15)

”Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this, look after widows & orphans in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” - James 1:27

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