Statement of Faith & Practice
The HOPE Centre was founded on these beliefs taken from God's Word:
1. In the plenary and verbal inspiration and inerrancy of the Bible as originally given; that it is the only infallible Word of God, and the supreme and final authority in all manners of faith and conduct:
2. That there is only one true God, eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
3. In Jesus Christ, God the Son, the world’s only Savior; in His pre-incarnation, virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, burial, and bodily resurrection, and in His personal, visible return to earth to take His chosen ones to live and reign with Him forever;
4. In God, the Holy Spirit, who convicts the world of sin, regenerates, indwells, and empowers the believer;
5. That all people are sinful and lost and can be saved only by grace and through faith in the shed blood of Christ;
6. In the resurrection of the dead, the believer to life everlasting and the unbeliever to eternal condemnation;
7. That the church is the body of Jesus Christ, for which He will return, consisting of all who have accepted the redemption provided by Him;
8. That the presence of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit is the believer will result in a life of holiness and a walk of obedience to the will of God;
9. In the two ordinances practiced by Jesus Christ, when He was on earth. We believe in the baptism of believers as a sign of the work of Christ in them and in the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper which He instituted the night before He was crucified.