New Life Pentecostal Church

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Our Five Core Values
 
The Values that Drive our Church and its Life
  • Real Worship
  • Relevant Teaching
  • Passionate Prayer
  • Genuine Friendship
  • Enthusiastic Evangelism

At NLPC we want to see God work in us to make us the kind of people He wants us to be. He is the One who causes the growth in our lives. He asks us to plant the seed with our friends and in the community, watering our lives with worship, prayer, study and fellowship and from time to time even a little weeding out of unhealthy activities.

There is no such thing as a perfect Christian this side of heaven, nor is there a perfect church. As individuals we struggle with wandering thoughts, conflicts caused by time pressure and our stubborn wills that cling to earthly values. Nevertheless we should all be growing as Christians and the church should be growing numerically as we see new Christians becoming rooted in their faith. 

So "Spend your time and energy in training yourselves for spiritual fitness." 1 Timothy 4:7,8

Our Five Core Values

Real Worship

Worship is a duty but also a joy to a Christian. It is a privilege to enter the presence of the Lord in the knowledge that we are welcomed and accepted. Even more important than worship in the church building is that we live lives which, by their standards of behaviour and purity, demonstrate our reverence for God (Ephesians 4:1. Romans 12:1,2)


Relevant teaching

We need to make space in our lives for God to speak to us through the Bible. This teaching then needs to be applied to our lives.


Passionate prayer

Prayer is a vital part of our relationship to God, the time when we ask Him to be involved in our lives and the lives of those we care for.


Genuine friendship

As a church we want to be warm and welcoming to visitors and to care for and support each other, just like a close family. We will try to establish quality friendships and authentic relationships with non-members.


Enthusiastic evangelism

We believe that many people are searching for the real meaning of life, and that this can only be found through a personal relationship with Jesus. We are committed to letting as many people as possible know this both locally and internationally. 

BASIS OF FAITH

Our basis of faith is in accordance with the Assemblies of God national basis of faith.
• We believe that the Bible (i.e. the Old and New Testaments excluding the Apocrypha) is the inspired Word of God, the infallible all-sufficient rule for faith and practice

• We believe in the unity of the One True and Living God who is the Eternal, Self-Existing “I Am” Who has also revealed Himself as One Being co-existing in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

• We believe in the Virgin Birth, Sinless Life, Miraculous Ministry, Substitutionary Atoning Death, Bodily Resurrection, Triumphant Ascension and Abiding Intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ and in His Personal, visible, bodily return in power and glory as the blessed hope of all believers.

• We believe in the fall of man, who was created pure and upright, but fell by voluntary transgression.

• We believe in salvation through faith in Christ, who, according to the Scriptures,  died for our sins, was buried and was raised from the dead on the third day, and that through His Blood we have Redemption. This experience is also known as the new birth and is an instantaneous and complete operation of the Holy Spirit upon initial faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• We believe that all who have truly repented and believed in Christ as Lord and Saviour are commanded to be baptised by immersion in water.

• We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an enduement of the believer with power for service, the essential, biblical evidence of which is the speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.

• We believe in the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the  gifts of Christ in the church today

• We believe in holiness of life and conduct in obedience to the command of God.

• We believe that deliverance from sickness by Divine Healing is provided for in the Atonement.

• We believe that all who have truly repented and believed in Christ as Lord and Saviour should regularly participate in the Breaking of Bread.

• We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the everlasting conscious bliss of all who truly believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and the everlasting conscious punishment of all whose names are not written in the Book of Life.
New Life Pentecostal Church,  Lawn Lane,  Hemel Hempstead,  HP3 9JF  01442 265915  nlpchh@tiscali.co.uk