Living Hope Worship Center is a Interdenominational Church Body, our desire is to meet you where you are, whether you are in need of counseling or if you are simply looking for fellowship with other believers. While we are absolutely committed to ministering to you for the glory of God, we believe that ministry should not be designed according to what fits us best. God has designed the body of Christ to be organized in such a way that relationships are built so that God’s mission is accomplished through His people. We have learned the hard way that the fact that a ministry fits you as an individual doesn’t mean that LHWC is necessarily accomplishing what God has called us to be about.
In fact, the key to understanding our purpose is realizing that it doesn’t start with us. It starts with understanding God and His heart, plan, and purpose for this world. Only from there can we understand how we as individual are called to joing together to be a part of God’s larger purposes.
We believe that the church is composed of all who are united by the Holy Spirit to the risen and ascended Son of God; that by the same Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, and thus, being members one of another, we are responsible in good conscience to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, loving one another with a pure heart fervently (Mat.16:16-18; Act.2:32-47; Rom.12:5; 1Co.12:12-27; Eph.1:20-23, 4:3-10; Col.3:14-15).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Head over all the church (Eph.1:22), commanded His people to observe two ordinances, neither of which is essential to salvation or to membership at Living Hope Worship Center, but both of which are an evidence of obedience and fellowship with the Lord. In neither of them has the unbeliever any part. Jesus commanded us to “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”(Mat.28:19-20 NASB).
For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “This is My body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”In the same way He took the cup also after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes(1Co.11:23-26 NASB).
In accordance with His command, therefore, we observe the ordinances of believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
