Tenets of Faith - Campfires For Christ Philippines

B. The Triune God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. His substitutionary atonement for sin. His bodily resurrection and His personal visible return to earth to reign in righteousness and glory.

C. The person of the Holy Spirit, who indwells every believer, and His work of conviction, regeneration and sanctification.

D. That all people are by nature separated from God and are responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all of his/her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.

E. The only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's Agape love, which is greater that any differences we possess, and without which we have no right to claim ourselves as Christians.

F. Worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.

G. Worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give great place to music in our worship.

H. Worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, this ministry is designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God, that He might instruct us how He should be worshipped.

I. Worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for his love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have been truly worshipping Him.

J. That God the Father is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.

K. That Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life provided for the atonement.

L. We seek to teach the Word of God in such a way that it's message can be applied to an individual's life, leading that person to greater maturity in Christ.

M. We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.

We Reject:

1. The belief that true Christians can be demon possessed.

2. "5 Point Calvinism" specifically the belief that Jesus' atonement was limited, instead we believe that He died for all people, and we reject the assertion that God's wooing grace cannot be resisted or that He has elected some people to go to hell; instead, we believe that anyone who wills to come to Christ may do so.

3. "Positive Confession" (the faith movement belief that God can be commanded to heal or work miracles according to man's will).

4. Human prophecy that supersedes the scriptures.

5. The incorporation of humanistic and secular psychology and philosophy into Biblical teaching.

6. The over emphasis of spiritual gifts, experiential Biblical teaching.

Optional:

1. We believe that ministry should be simplistic rather than a complex bureaucracy, and we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead, rather than on fleshly promotion.

2. We await the Pre-tribulation rapture of the Church, and we believe that the second coming of Christ with His saints to rule on the earth will be personal, pre-millennial, and visible. This motivates us to a holy lifestyle, heartfelt worship, committed service, diligent study of God's Word, regular fellowship, and participation in adult baptism by immersion and Holy Communion.