Descending Dove Apostolic Alliance
Statement of Faith
1. We worship the Triune God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2. Jesus Christ, the Eternal Son of God, was born of the virgin, Mary and lived a sinless, Spirit-filled life, demonstrating the Kingdom of God on earth. His death on the cross provides substitute atonement for sin and is the only way of reconciliation with the Father. He was resurrected on the third day, ascended to the right hand of the Father and will return to earth in glory.
3. The Holy Spirit regenerates believers in Christ, equipping and empowering them for righteous living by His fruit and for supernatural ministry by His gifts. We believe the Holy Spirit to be a person; that is a "He" and not an "it."
4. The Holy Bible is God’s inspired word and is the ultimate rule of Christian faith and practice.
5. Salvation is by grace, through faith, in Jesus Christ.
6. God’s internal law of love, as expressed in the Ten Commandments, is written in the heart of every believer by the Holy Spirit. We believe the Ten Commandments to be complete and applicable to life in our day, in their entirety of all ten and that not one has been altered or changed.
7. God is calling out His church from the world in preparation for Christ’s second and last coming. The church, which is the body of Christ, is to look to its Head, Jesus Christ, above all doctrine and pattern and is commissioned to preach the Gospel to all the world.
8. It is the privilege and responsibility of every believer in Jesus Christ to establish a living, two-way, daily relationship with the triune God and to take what is received from that relationship and build the lives of themselves as well as the lives of others in the body of Christ and those outside the body of Christ. It is the initialization and upkeep of this relationship that determines salvation, not a prescribed prayer, creed, denominational group or method of worship.
9. We are to be first Kingdom minded, concerned with doing God’s will over any desire of good or evil men, doctrine, plan, idea, hope or denominational structure that we ourselves may have, and to prefer others before ourselves.
