Life Tabernacle Church
Multi-Cultural
Christ came to save the world, not just one segment of the world, or one race, or one religion, but all mankind. We seek to value differences in race and culture, but not to be satisfied with differences. We seek to have a Christ Culture, one that values all while still reaching to be more than our heritage, but to become a spiritually -united body of believers.
Personal Growth
We grow through our personal relationship with Christ [prayer] and accurate study of His words [Bible Study], and through fellowship with like-minded believers. We reach to those who are looking for a God-purpose to their lives, and seek to teach what we have learned about Christ living in us. We seek to act out to all the Love that Christ gave to us through individual and corporate service, serving the under served in our area and around the world.
Goals Statement
We desire to be Christ's hands and feet in our world, and we live it through our core principles: Loving God, and Loving our neighbor as ourself, Learning of Him, Leading others to know Him, and Living daily as a reflection of Him.
Lifestyle
We live an outwardly, conservative lifestyle. We dress modestly, honoring God's expressed plan in the identity He gave us through our gender. He chose our gender identity in our conception, and we live it through our actions, honoring His expressed choice for us.Join Us
Be part of us living an authentic God-honoring life.
Everyone is welcome to worship with us. God does not reject us, but He invites each of us to, "Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart."
Be Unified in Purpose!
Allow Christ to "Make us one, as He and the Father is one."
About Joining Our Journey
Joining us on the journey is about following Christ. Not just theoretically but in a very fine, granular fashion.
So joining is about following Christ's example in His life and His death. He overcame the world through that greatest of victories, the victory over death. He died on the cross for our sins, was buried and rose to live again on the third day.
This is more than a story but a model. He had to die to pay our price for sin, but He also had to rise gain to give us hope for victory over our sinful life. It was His resurrection that gave us hope and showed us His true power.
Likewise, we also should die to our old life through repentance, be buried with Him through baptism in His name, and be resurrected by the infilling of His Spirit into our life. He gives us power to overcome our sinful flesh and to live victoriously through the life given to us by His Spirit living in us.
The apostles preached and followed this pattern or model throughout the first and second generation of the New Testament church. It was preached by Peter on the day of Pentecost which was the birth of the Church 50 days after Jesus' resurrection. Acts 2 records the birth of the church and the first sermon of the newly, birthed church age. In verse 38, Peter was answering a question by the gathered Jews, "What must we do?" This was in response to the first outpouring of the Holy Spirit into the 120 gathered in the upper room in Jerusalem, waiting on the promise of the Father, which Jesus told them to wait for just before His resurrection.
Peter preached "Repent [die to your old nature], and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins [that represented the burial as Romans 6 says, "we are buried with Him by baptism"], and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. [The promise of the Father, evidenced in Acts 2:1-4 by speaking in an unknown, Spirit inspired tongue.]
He was laying out the model of Jesus. He died and was buried, and then rose again. We should die [repent], be buried [baptism in Jesus name], and be resurrected to walk a new life [the infilling of the Holy Spirit]. This same model is the one we follow today and constitutes salvation. We have to die out to sin, be buried with Him through baptism, and rise and walk a new life through the infilling of His Spirit into our lives.
Verse 39 of Acts 2 casts out hope to everyone that God is calling to receive this same wonderful gift of His Spirit into a newly clean, baptized life. This model is just as relevant today as it was when it was first preached to the people gathered in that Jerusalem Street beneath the balcony of the upper room.
So join us on the journey, wherever you are in your relationship with Christ. Let's get closer to Him, together.
