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WHO ARE WE Growth Ministries consists of groups of people (house churches) that meet together in the home for the purpose of Bible Study, prayer, worship and fellowship with the goal of each group multiplying and becoming another house church.
OUR HISTORY We were originally established as a traditional church plant with our first meeting December 1996 in the Cary, NC home of Pastor Jerry & Alice Kinard. We were incorporated April 1997 with the state of NC and May 1998 we had our first public service. For several years we met at community centers, a store front building, and a gymnaisium. We have always had a heart for small groups with cell ministry being our primary focus. However, at the leading of the Holy Spirit, we came full circle and began primarily meeting in the home. And on February 5th, 2005 we re-established and became a house church network. OUR VISION Our vision is to see Raleigh transformed by the power of the gospel. OUR MISSION Our mission is to make disciples. OUR MOTTO "Helping You Grow In Christ" OUR LEADERSHIP Growth Ministries is governed by a plurality of elders who provide overall leadership for our church. STATEMENT OF FAITH* - We believe that both the Old and New Testaments are verbally inspired by God and are completely without error in the original writings, and are of supreme and final authority on every subject with which they deal. 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:21
- We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; each of whom is equal in being, power, and glory. Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3–4; Hebrews 1:8
- We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His sacrificial atoning death for our sins, His bodily resurrection, and His personal, literal, imminent return. Matthew 1:23; Luke 24:36–43; John 1:1–3, 1:29, 3:16, 14:1–3; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24
- We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates people; and, at the moment of conversion, seals, baptizes, and indwells all believing sinners. We believe that He sovereignly gives to all believers spiritual gifts for service. 1 Corinthians 6:19; Ephesians 1:31; Titus 3:5; 1 Peter 4:10
- We believe that God created the heavens and the earth, including all life, "each after its own kind," by direct act and not by the process of evolution. Genesis 1–2; John 1:3; Colossians 1:16–17; Hebrews 11:3
- We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sin nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and himself completely unable to remedy his lost condition. Genesis 1:26–27; Romans 3:22–23, 5:10–19; Ephesians 2:1–3, 2:12
- We believe in the distinct personality of Satan, that he is the "god of this age," ruler of all the powers of darkness, and is destined to the judgment of an eternal justice in the lake of fire. Matthew 4:1–3; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 20:10
- We believe that man in his natural state can in no way save himself no matter how good his intentions. God, however, being a loving God, has provided a way for all men to be saved by grace through faith in His only begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. When a person exercises his faith in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ he, at that moment, passes from death unto life. Isaiah 64:6; John 3:16, 5:24, 6:47; Ephesians 2:8–9
- We believe in the eternal security of the believer (that it is not possible for the true child of God to lose his salvation). John 10:28–29; Romans 8:35; Philippians 1:6; 1 Peter 1:5
- We believe in righteous living and good works, not as the means of salvation, but as its evidence and fruit. Romans 12:1–2; Ephesians 2:8–10; Titus 3:8
- We believe in the Church which is the body and bride of Jesus Christ, whose purpose is to worship, pray, fellowship, teach, witness for Christ, and observe the ordinances of her Lord (water baptism, the Lord's Supper, and foot washing). Matthew 28:20; Acts 8:38; 1 Corinthians 11:23–24; Ephesians 5:25–32
*Adopted from Reston Bible Church
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