Bay Ridge Christian Church - Teaching

Our love for one another shows the world that we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit leads God's children by revealing God's will in Scripture, enabling us to understand, giving us a desire to follow, and empowering us to obey.

We are called to make decisions based on wisdom, which obeys God's revealed will in Scripture and applies the principles of God's Word to all of life.

God's will for my life is not an obscure set of choices that I must divine using various methods, but His revealed plan & commands as found in the Scripture.

God's will refers to both His secret plan to work everything in conformity with His purposes, and His revealed commands for how we are to live.

Let us celebrate the first Advent of Jesus Christ and we anxiously await the celebration of His second Advent.

Christians are called to be constantly filled with the Holy Spirit, living lives under His control.

The baptism in the Holy Spirit, while theologically distinct from regeneration and justification, occurs at the same time – when we become believers in Christ.

God has promised to watch over, protect, and keep His covenant people through the good and bad times of life.

When we were baptized in the Holy Spirit, we were initiated into the New Covenant, placed into the Church, given spiritual gifts, and empowered to be Christ's witnesses.

The baptism in the Holy Spirit is the promised experience of the Spirit being poured out, coming upon, and filling God's New Covenant people.

In the New Covenant the ministry of the Spirit in believers is much more personal, internal, and powerful than it was under the Old Covenant.

Theme: Spiritual gifts are concrete expressions of God's grace, manifested by the empowerment fo the Holy Spirit, given to each believer in order to strengthen the church and enable us to serve others in love. Text: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Reading: 1 Peter 4:7-11

The Spirit is at work in believers to enable them to resist the desires of their fallen nature and to be conformed to Christ.

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The Gabriel Network shares the work that they are doing ministering to women who find themselves in crisis pregnancies.

The Spirit is working to join us to the Church to be the place where God dwells.

The Holy Spirit has been sent to convict the wolrd of sin, righteousness, and judgment, so that it may be drawn to Christ.

The Spirit has been sent by Jesus to testify to Christ, and to enable us to point others to Jesus as well.

The Spirit was active in both our creation and redemption and in His ongoing work in our lives His is restoring God's original intent for creation and our place within it.