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Revival of Canada (ROC) Christian Ministries
June 2025
All Scripture, the Old and New Testaments, are the inspired Word of God. In them we find the final authority for all Christian faith and practice. It is completely relevant today for every area of life because it is alive and active. It is without error and is to be believed, practiced, trusted, and hoped in. God does not give new revelations apart from or beyond the Bible. The final guide to the interpretation of scripture is scripture
itself.
(2 Timothy 3:15-17, Hebrews 4:12, 2 Peter 1:20-21, 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Isaiah 40:8)
God has revealed Himself as eternal and the Creator of all things. God exists in three Persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – each fully God and equal in glory and majesty, self-existent, eternal, and infinitely perfect, Sustainer and Ruler of all things, totally loving and completely holy.
(Genesis 1:1, Deuteronomy 6:4, Isaiah 43:10-11, Matthew 28:19. 2 Corinthians 13:14)
The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who shares in the deity of God. He is also truly man who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He led a sinless life, and He died on the cross as a sacrifice for sin. He then arose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and is now at the right hand of the Father as our High Priest. He shall bodily and visibly return in person to this earth in power and glory as Judge of the
living and the dead.
(Matthew 1:20-21, 23, Mark 16:19, John 1:14, 3:16, Romans 5:8, 1 Cor. 15:3-5, Hebrews
4:14, 10:12)
Man was created in the image of God but voluntarily sinned and is therefore separated from God and subject to His wrath and condemnation. Only through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection can mankind find and receive redemption.
(Genesis 1-3, Romans 3:23-26, Romans 5:12-21)
Salvation (being 'born-again') is the creative act of the Holy Spirit and is a free gift of grace from God. It can only be obtained by repentance and faith, not by works, and by the finished redemptive work of Jesus Christ and is expressed through an individual’s acceptance of the risen Christ as Saviour, Lord, and God. If any man be in Christ, he is inwardly a new creation with Christ’s divine nature dwelling in him.
(John 3:3, Romans 10:9, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 Peter 1:23)
The baptism of the Holy Spirit, a separate experience from salvation, is to glorify Jesus Christ and to indwell, guide, and strengthen believers for life and service. The Holy Spirit enables believers to use various spiritual gifts that build and empower the church and advance the Kingdom of God.
(Matthew 3:11, 28:19, Acts 2:1-4 , Acts 8:14-17 1 Cor. 12:7-11, 14:12)
Water baptism is an outward sign of an inward transformation. By immersion in water, the born-again believer identifies with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and publicly proclaims their commitment to follow Christ.
(Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3-4)
The Lord's Supper, as initiated by Jesus at the Last Supper, is a symbolic expression of our sharing and participating in the divine nature of Jesus Christ. It is a memorial of His suffering and death, and we receive from who Jesus is and what He has done for us when we partake of it.
(Matthew 26:26-28, John 6:53-58, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)
The true Church is the gathering of all those who have been born again. Believers are united as the Body of Christ, with Jesus as the Lord and Head of the Church, for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry. It is essential for believers to gather regularly for fellowship, the preaching of the Word, worship, prayer, and holy communion.
(Acts 2:44-47, Ephesians 1:22-23, 4:12, Hebrews 10:24-25)
The work of Jesus Christ provides not only for salvation but healing and deliverance for all believers - spirit, soul, and body - as is evidenced by Jesus’ earthly ministry and continued through the works of the early Church.
(Isaiah 53:4-5, Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 16:18, Acts 19:11-12, 1 Peter 2:24, James 5:14-16)
Marriage is a sacred gift from God that is designed for one naturally born man and one naturally born woman in a single, exclusive union, in a lifetime covenant commitment before God. It is to be held in honour and kept in faithfulness.
(Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:4-6, Hebrews 13:4)
All people are created in the image of God, with equal value and dignity. We believe that all people should be shown the love and grace of God, regardless of gender, beliefs, race, or social status. As stewards of life, we are endowed by God with the responsibility to protect the worth and dignity of human beings from the moment of conception until the moment of death.
(Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 139:13-16, Matthew 22:39, Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 3:28-29)
We have been made in the image of God, and gender at birth is part of God' unique design for every individual. From the beginning, God created two separate and distinct biological sexes: male and female, different but with equal personal dignity. Humankind, created by God and in the image of God, should seek to honour the design of the Creator in both word and deed.
(Genesis 1:27, 5:1-2, Psalm 139:13-16, Corinthians 7:24)
There will be a final judgement in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whoever's name is not found written in the Book of Life will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
(Matthew 25:46, John 5:29, Revelation 20:11-15)