DOCTRINAL BELIEF

Doctrine

Havasu Bible Fellowship has been formed as a ministry under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and to be conformed into His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are non-denominational and are not opposed to denominations as such, striving earnestly for unity in the body of Christ. We believe the worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our ministry.

• We believe the worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, there's great emphasis upon the Word of God that He might instruct us.

• We believe the worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshiping Him.

• We believe in all the basic, cardinal doctrines of historic Christianity.

• We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.

• We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.

• We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God, and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided atonement for our sins by His vicarious and substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.

• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and unsaved; they that are saved unto the resurrection of mercy and eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ and they that are unsaved unto a resurrection of justice for their sins and rejection of the work of Jesus Christ.

• We believe in the personal and visible second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will return with His saints and set up a kingdom of which there will be no end.

• We believe in obedience to the ordinances of baptism and communion subsequent to salvation according to scripture.

While Havasu Bible Fellowship holds to these beliefs, we welcome everyone with the hope that they will have a sincere desire to know and serve the Savior. Our desire is to share in the fellowship of Christ in a way that brings glory to God, avoiding division, and to share in His agape love.

Vision Statement

Under God's direction establish and develop a community of believers that strives to fulfill The Acts 2 model of the bride of Christ ---

• Create a supportive and encouraging place where spirit-led preaching and teaching brings a new God-Focused direction to people's lives.

• Where believers establish and gather in small groups to share their hearts on the deepest levels in true koinonia fellowship.

• Where people compassionately walk with each other through life's problems and pain.

• Where everyone feels empowered to make a difference through their spiritual gifts.

• Where prayer, worship, and the ordinances of baptism and communion are exalted.

• Where the material blessings of God given resources are shared with those in need.

• And where people ache so much for family, friends, and others who are lost that the church becomes passionate and takes risks to reach out to them with the gospel.

Values

• Inspiring WORSHIP - While we are not traditionally “charismatic”, we long to worship God in an inspirational and expressive way.

• The always relevant WORD of God- We believe that the Bible is accurate and powerfully relevant to help us in any and every situation we may encounter both now and always.

• The WARMTH and love of God's people. We believe that God's love is boundless, and so we want to experience and share that love.

Basically, we want to value what God values. We believe that the true evidence of a Spirit-filled church is when God's values are being genuinely expressed in the people of that church. Bible passages such as Galatians 5:22-23 (But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.) and Ephesians 5:18-21 (And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit. Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.) state in very clear terms what a Spirit-filled church looks like. These and other values found in the Scriptures are what we hold dear, aspire to and ask God to cultivate in us.

Communion

The apostle Paul writes in I Corinthians 11: 23-29, “ For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.” Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

We invite all who are members of the body of Christ to share in the fellowship of communion. With the cross before Him, betrayal sitting at His feet, and the weight of the sins of humanity about to be placed on His shoulders, Jesus gave thanks. The bread, His body was broken; the cup, the new testament in His blood was offered in remembrance. Not only in remembrance of His death, but the fact we presently serve a living Christ, and celebrate His future return.

It is more than an ordinance, tradition, or symbol. Just as the eyes of the two Emmaus disciples were opened when Jesus broke the bread, and “They knew Him” , so to as we break bread together may “our hearts burn within us” that He is present in our midst.

Do we sin? Yes! Do we struggle? Yes! What better time to remember, and get right than at the communion table.

“THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME”

Ordinance of Baptism

In Matthew 28:19, the Lord Himself commanded that people be baptized. The early church never conceived of a believer remaining unbaptized. The New Testament ordinance symbolized our identification with the death burial and resurrection of our Lord. (Romans 6:3-5) Therefore at HBF we give great significance to the importance of the ordinance of Baptism in the life of the believer.

A Call to Prayer

James 5:16 ...'pray for one another that you may be healed. The effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.'

Prayer gives to each of us immediate access to God. Prayer is a presumed activity by all who believe. As Jesus Himself said, 'when you pray...your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.'

We are told by the Lord to persevere in our petition by continuing to ask that we might receive.

In Matthew 6: 9-13 Jesus tell us how, 'In this manner, therefore pray: Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be Thy Name. Your Kingdom come. Your Will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and Glory forever. Amen.'

Whatever form our prayer takes in communication with the Father, be it praise, petition, confession, or intercession, He is pleased and glorified.

Please come by the church and pray with us. Church is located at 3735 N. London Bridge Road; Church hours are Monday-Wednesday 9 am - 12 noon. If you are busy, please call (928)-764-0122 and we will pray with you on the phone or email us at alanhbf@yahoo.com. Come to Worship on Sundays and ask for prayer!