 

At
King's Way Christian Church we take God's Holy Word very seriously.
In fact, our only Church Doctrine is the Holy Bible. We believe
the Old and New Testament as the only divinely inspired Word
of God. Where the Bible speaks, we speak: where the Bible
is silent, we are silent. We believe in Jesus Christ as the
only begotten Son of God. He died a cruel death on a cross
to pay for our sins. Jesus rose from the dead on the third
day and ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of
God the Father.
God's
gift of eternal life is available to us through acceptance
of Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. As believers, Christ
has commissioned us to spread His gospel throughout the world,
to seek and save the lost, and equip the saints for acts of
service through discipleship.
In
the Beginning
Our Heavenly Father made us in His own image as the crown
jewel of all His creations. He gave us responsibility to take
care of each other and His earth. Tragically, His first friends
chose to pursue their own dream of life disregarding God's
plan for them. As they began life apart from His presence,
they found that something had changed -- something inside.
Their friendship with God and desire to be with Him were replaced
by fear and guilt and shame and a desire to somehow preserve
for themselves some dignity and significance and control of
their own. In their pursuit of what they once enjoyed freely,
they soon found that they were at odds with each other as
well.
Further
and Further from God
Years passed. They bore children and their children bore children
-- soon the earth was being populated. These children were
like their first parents, yet further and further from God,
though they too were made in God's image. Always looking for
something higher than mere physical existence, they sought
for it in just about any place other than in God Himself.
And He was the only one who could fill the aching hole they
felt deep inside.
The
human family reasoned, "Our problem is that we're not
spiritual." And so a host of religious and spiritual
beliefs and practices arose, each one an attempt to find their
way back to God, each one claiming to have God's approval.
All the while, our rejected Father yearned to receive His
children back into that simple, Father-child relationship
of trust, obedience, and love.
God
Reveals Himself
God chose one family through whom to reveal His love and His
will, the ancestors of Israel -- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
God inspired chosen ones from among them to record His Word,
His holy law, promising them life. Generation after generation
of Israelites disobeyed God's law, if not outwardly at least
in spirit, with all too few exceptions.
God
Enters the Human Race
God saw that the only way He could get His poor, mixed-up,
selfish and sinful human family back was to come down and
win their hearts back to Himself. He would become a man. He
sent His son Jesus to become like one of us and accomplish
all of this. History itself was changed forever. Though born
to an insignificant family in a small country, His life changed
everything. Still, most of the human race, including most
of His own people of Israel, turned away from Him and refused
to believe or abandon their search for love and meaning apart
from God. Their ultimate act of rejection was to kill His
Son. They did not realize that in doing so, they were fulfilling
God's plan and accomplishing the very reason He came: to put
Himself in the place of sinful humans, and suffer the punishment
due to them.
Jesus
Raised & Spirit Sent
Three days later, Jesus' Father raised him from the dead.
He showed himself repeatedly to His skeptical followers, and
then commissioned them to spread the good news to all the
world that God still loved His disobedient children and had
provided a way for them to be forgiven and come back to Him.
After returning to His Father in heaven, Jesus sent His Spirit
into the hearts of His followers to change them from the inside
out, making them more and more like Himself, and giving them
power over their fears and their selfishness. With this power
living in them, they proceeded to carry out Jesus' command
to tell the whole world.
The
Gospel Spreads
And so it has been ever since. Even today, Jesus' followers
are telling their friends and anyone else who will listen
the good news that God wants them back, and that He's done
all that is necessary for them to come back. It only remains
for them to stop trying to find Him their own way, and to
believe in the One whom He sent to forgive them, embrace them,
and take them back into the Family as fully forgiven and restored
children.
The
Return of Christ
Soon, Jesus will return. All who have believed will reign
with Him, not just as children, but as kings and priests in
His Kingdom. All who have stubbornly refused His reign will
find that there is a limit to God's patience. Having refused
to let Jesus be the One to suffer their punishment, their
substitute, they will then have to suffer eternal punishment
themselves, and this time there will be no remedy.
Your
Move
The Spirit of God and the Church of Jesus unite with one voice,
crying to anyone who will listen, "Come. Believe. Let
your deep hunger be satisfied in Jesus. Live. God is for you.
What else can He do?" The next move belongs to you!
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