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Bethel is committed
to spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ through out the world by supporting
the Assemblies of God missionary efforts.
The Assemblies of
God is one of the largest evangelical missionary-sending organizations
in the world, with over 4,500 long- and short-term foreign missionaries
serving in over 100 nations of the world. In addition, there are over
375 long-term nationally-appointed "home missionaries" serving
within the United States.
BIBLE-BASED.The
Assemblies of God Fellowship is a Bible movement. Our founding leaders
placed the doctrine concerning the Bible first in our Statement of Fundamental
Truths. God's Word is foundational to everything we believe, preach, teach
and practice. Though heaven and earth will pass away, God's Word will
live forever. The unchanging instrument of the Holy Spirit and our
infallible guide-God's inspired Word is the seed of the world harvest,
bread for the spiritually hungry and the light that proclaims God's
grace and deliverance to a world that is lost and bound in the darkness
of sin.
SPIRIT-EMPOWERED.
We depend on God's divine power because our mission depends on
miracles. As Pentecostals, we know that just preaching and publishing
the message is not enough. Hearts must be opened. Lives must be changed.
The Church must be established. These can only be established by
God himself. The Holy Spirit imparts spiritual gifts and abilities
to God's messengers. And the same Holy Spirit that inspired God's Holy
Word illumines its truth to the minds of hearers and opens their hearts
to respond to its message. We totally rely on the Holy Spirit to
give life to the message we preach and to cause growth from the
seed we sow. The Spirit convinces of sin, brings assurance of sins
forgiven, imparts peace through understanding, and guides into all truth.
A Pentecostal mission acknowledges and depends on the Holy Spirit
to empower our message so it can bear the fruit God has promised.
CHRIST-CENTERED.The
focus of the Pentecostal message is Jesus Christ. John the Baptist proclaimed
him the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! Jesus.God
who became man, showing us the character of our Creator and Heavenly
Father, is the Redeemer of lost humanity the Savior of the whole
world. He offered up His life to redeem sinful mankind. Only through Him
do we have peace with God. After a sinless life, He rose from death
that whoever believes in Him could have everlasting life. He is preparing
a place for us and He has promised to come again for us so we can be with
Him for eternity. Missionary Richard Bernhard Johnson saw more than 1.8
million come forward for salvation in crusades in Brazil. When asked
what he believed accounted for the great numbers who responded he replied,
I always exalt Jesus Christ! Our message to this lost, sinful world
is like that of the missionary apostle Paul, none other than Christ,
and Him crucified. |