Our mission

At Encounter Church, our mission is to help people encounter God, build community, discover their purpose, and live out their faith. We do this by sharing Christ’s love, fostering authentic connections, equipping believers to serve, and empowering each person to live sacrificially for God's kingdom.

  • We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the accepted cannon of Scriptures as originally given. (2 Timothy 3:16, 1 Corinthians 2:13)

  • We believe in the Eternal Godhead who has revealed Himself as one God existing in three persons; Father, Son and Holy Spirit; distinguishable but indivisible. (Matthew 3:16-17, Matthew 28:19, 2 Corinthians 13:14, Romans 1:7, Genesis 1:26)

  • We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of men, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, very God and very man. (Luke 1:26-35, John 1:18, Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 9:6)

    We believe Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day, and personally appeared to His disciples. (I Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 4:24-25, Romans 6:5, I Peter 1:3)

    We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven, His exaltation and personal, literal and bodily coming again the second time for the Church. (John 14:2-3, I Thessalonians 4:13-18, John 20:17, Luke 24:50-51, Acts 1:11)

  • We believe in the creation, test and fall of man as recorded in Genesis; man’s total spiritual depravity and inability to attain to divine righteousness. (Romans 5:12, Romans 5:18, Ephesians 2:4-5, I Peter 4:6)

  • We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and sufficient work of the cross of Calvary by which we obtain remission of sins. (Ephesians 2:8-9, Hebrews 9:12, Romans 5:11)

  • We believe in water baptism by immersion in the name of the Eternal Godhead as an act of obedience to the command of Christ. (Matthew 28:19, Acts 2:36-39, Acts 8:12, Acts 10:48, Acts 19:1-6, Galatians 3:27, Colossians 2:12)

  • We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an experience subsequent to salvation, with Scriptural evidence; typically, speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. (Acts 2:1-4, Acts 8:14-17, Acts 10:44-46, Acts 19:6, I Corinthians 14:2, I Corinthians 14:4, I Corinthians 14:18, Luke 3:16)

    We believe in the operation of the gifts of the Spirit as stated in the scriptures. (I Corinthians 12-14, Romans 12:4-8, I Peter 4:10-11)

    We believe in the Spirit-filled life, a life of separation from the world and perfecting of holiness in the fear of God as an expression of Christian faith. (Ephesians 5:18, II Corinthians 7:1)

    We believe in the healing of the body by divine power, or divine healing in its varied aspects as practiced in the Early Church. Acts 4:30, Romans 8:11, I Corinthians 12:9, James 5:14;

  • We believe the church is God’s eternal purpose to display His manifold wisdom and that Christ is building His church now. (Ephesians 3:9-11, Ephesians 6:10-17, Matthew 16:16-19)

    We believe in the five-fold ascension gift ministries Christ had given to and for the church: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. (Ephesians 4:11-16, I Corinthians 12:28, Acts 13:1-3)

OUR BELIEFS