The Vietnamese Agape Church in Los Lunas believes in the following core beliefs:    

  • The entire “Baptist Faith & Message – 2000″
  • The entire Bible, both Old and New Testaments, is infallible Word of God;
  • All have sin and fall short to the glory of God;
  • Salvation is by the grace of God and through faith in Christ Jesus. Salvation is a gift from God and not earned by works;
  • Jesus offered himself as a sacrifice for sin, and rose from the dead, to become the only means of salvation for fallen humanity.  He promised to return in glory to establish the Kingdom of God, and ascended to the right hand of God, from where He sent the holy Spirit to all who believe;
  • Repentance and personal acceptance of Jesus as Messiah and Lord are necessary for salvation;
  • The church is the community of brothers, and sisters in Christ who have a common faith in salvation through Jesus Christ and are all baptized by the Holy Spirit;
  • God wonderfully and immutably created each person as distinctly male or female (Gen. 1:26-31; 2:18-25; 5:1, 2). These two distinct and complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. To reject one’s biological gender is a rejection of the image of God within that person and is a sin against God;
  • Marriage was created and sanctioned by God in which God joins one man and one woman in a single and exclusive union. (Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4-6);
  • God intends sexual intimacy to occur only between a man and a woman who are married to each other. Any form of sexual intimacy outside of marriage is sexually immoral and is sin against God. (1 Cor. 6:15-7:6; Eph. 5:3-7) Sexual immorality includes, but is not limited to adultery, fornication, homosexual conduct, and pornography;
  • The Church only organizes weddings for couples who meet all of the core beliefs in Section 2 – Message of Faith of this By-law;
  • God offers forgiveness, redemption, transformation, and restoration to all who confess and repent from their sin and humbly ask for His forgiveness through Jesus Christ (1 Cor. 6:11)

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