{"id":198,"date":"2025-11-18T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T00:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gracerivercity.church\/?page_id=198"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:41:25","slug":"what-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gracerivercity.church\/index.php\/what-we-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our Beliefs and Values<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\u2018River City Church\u2019 is part of the Apostolic Church UK and Ireland. This Church was birthed out of the great Welsh Revival of 1904 and you can read a fuller account on the national church website at www.acuk.online<\/p>\n

As you will see in our statement of beliefs below, tenets Nos. 5 and 6 place us firmly in the Pentecostal section of Christendom, the fastest growing expression of the Christian faith. We believe that the power, the passion and the pattern of the early Church as recorded in the book of Acts including apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists and teachers, is the experience that God still desires for His Church today. There is no biblical New Testament pattern of a separate \u2018Clergy\u2019 and \u2018Laity\u2019. Every believer is a member of one body with a different gift according to the grace given us (Romans 12.v4-8).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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We believe that faith in Jesus Christ is the gift of God and comes as His Holy Spirit opens our hearts to receive the truth of the gospel, that we have a heavenly father who never left us to save ourselves! Because we were created to know Him, there is at the centre of each person\u2019s life a thirst that nothing in this world can quench, not even religion! Only receiving the gift of God, a new birth from above through the gift of His Spirit, can transform a life from the darkness of sin to the light of His presence. For two thousand years multitudes of people have found that the gift of faith comes by hearing the gospel of God\u2019s grace, the good news of how God has reconciled us to Himself and offers us nothing less than life with Him.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life<\/em>.\u201d John 3:16.<\/p>\n

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Growing up in the Grace of God.<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Church: God\u2019s people in Christ.<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Pentecostal: In the Holy Spirit\u2019s power.<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Evangelical: Proclaiming the Gospel.<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n
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Apostolic: And equipping others to do the same.<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Tenets of the Apostolic Church<\/h2><\/div><\/div>\n\n