What We Believe
Word of Faith Christian Center - San Francisco is a non-denominational, independent church that believes:
- The Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God. It is the infallible, final authority for the believer (II Timothy 3:15-17).
- God is the Creator of all things and the sustainer of life within this universe. God has a Triune nature and manifests Himself as the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (1 John 5:7).
- All have sinned and come short of the glory of God and are in need of salvation. When man sinned against God, sin and death entered the world, which was the primary cause of Jesus’ redemptive work (Romans 5:12, Romans 3:23).
- Salvation has been provided through Jesus Christ for all people by faith. It is a free gift of grace from God, and can be received through belief, faith, and acceptance of Jesus and the redemptive work He accomplished on the cross (Romans 10: 8-10, 13).
- That the in-filling of the Holy Spirit is an experience subsequent to salvation, and that it is the will of God that all be filled. This in-filling is distinct from salvation and is evidenced by the physical act of speaking with other tongues as the Holy Spirit brings the utterance (Acts 2-4, Acts 19:6).
- In Divine Healing provided for all believers in the redemption by Jesus Christ. Healing for believers is a redemptive benefit of the cross and is also part of Christ's Gospel (Acts 10:38, 1 Peter 2:24).
- The Church consists of all those who have received Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. The Church is considered the "Body of Christ", and Jesus is both Lord and Head over His Church (Ephesians 1:22-23).
- There shall one day be a resurrection of the saints. The Body of Christ will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, and believers will be with the Lord forever (1 Thessalonians 4:13-17).
- In the personal, visible, imminent return of Jesus Christ to establish and begin His Kingdom. This begins with the Church being caught away, followed by Christ's return to the earth with His Church for one thousand years in His millennial reign (Revelation 19-22).
- In water baptism and the observance of the Lord's Supper. Water baptism is a public declaration that symbolizes a believer's identification with Christ's death and a newness of life in Him (Mark 16:16). Communion is the believer's remembrance of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection and represents a covenant between Christ and His believers (1 Corinthians 11:23-31).
- In the final judgment of all unbelievers and wicked dead whose names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life and their eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:11-15).