In Brampton as it is in Heaven. Gathered and Scattered Believers.

We are a family of missionary disciples, making disciples of Jesus, compelled to proclaim His Good News and do justice, in Brampton and to the ends of the earth.

We are followers of Jesus. 

Our aim is to live as followers of Jesus. To learn his teachings so we know the right things about Him and His Kingdom so that we can live the right way. We hope to become like him and to carry on his Kingdom vision for the world.  

Mark 1:17, 8:34-37, Acts 2:14-41, Ephesians 1:20-23, Colossians 1:15-20

We are adopted into the Father’s family

Our aim is to live as a family. We hope to love one another as brothers and sisters in everything we do as we gather and scatter in community regardless of age and stage. 

Mark 3v35, Acts 2v42-47, 4v32-35, Romans 8v14-17, Ephesians 1v5, 3v15, Philippians 4v1

We are sent by the Spirit.

Our aim is to live as missionaries, followers of the missionary God, both around the world and right here in Brampton, empowered by the Holy Spirit. We hope to join in God’s mission to put the world back into the shape he intended.

Matthew 28v18-20, John 20v21, Acts 1v8

We learn from the Scriptures.

Our aim is to be a people formed by the scriptures, hungry and thirsty for the voice of God. We hope that we would be challenged by the scriptures in our gatherings, communities, etc., and in this fall more deeply in love with the author, God.

Joshua 1v7-8, Psalm 1, Matthew 22v29, 37, 2 Timothy 3v14-17, 2 Peter 1v19-21

We do good.

Our aim is to live the gracious and generous way of Jesus. To share with those in need, inside and outside the church, locally and globally. We hope that we might become a church where there are “no needy persons among” us.

Job 29v12-17, Isaiah 1v10-18, Amos 2v4-8, 5v24, 6v1-7, Micah 6v8, Acts 2v45, 4v32- 36

We plant churches.

Our aim is to recapture a theology of place – to be a kingdom presence everywhere God has placed us. We hope to carry the gospel forward locally and globally by planting contextual kingdom-minded churches everywhere God leads.

Genesis 1v28, Matthew 28v18-20, Romans 1v7, 1 Corinthians 1v2, Ephesians 1v1, Philippians 1v1

We call the emerging generation.

Our aim is to be a community that rises up and releases young people into the kingdom of God. We believe that in this “fatherless generation” the best thing a church can do for young people is to have older people to come alongside them. We hope to be a church family that has the vitality and energy of youth with the wisdom and experience of maturity.

Psalm 145v4, 2 Timothy 2v2, Titus 2v3-4

We step expectantly towards the Kingdom.

Our aim is to be a Kingdom-focused people. We believe that the Kingdom of God is the healing, life-giving rule of God where His will is done, on earth as it is in heaven. But the kingdom is also coming in the future when Jesus comes back to extend God’s rule over everything. We hope to be participants in the renewal of all things as we partner with churches to serve our cities, do justice and preach the good news of Jesus.

Matthew 6v10, Mark 1v15, Jesus’ parables

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six books, as originally written, comprising the Old and New Testaments were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice and the true basis of Christian union.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; Who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.

We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the archenemy of God and man.

We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of the Lord.

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.

We believe that a church is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the church. We believe that its officers are pastors and deacons.

We believe that there are only two ordinances for the church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following order: – Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water, whereby he obeys Christ’s command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. – The Lord’s Supper, which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord’s body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes.

We believe in the entire separation of church and state.

We believe in religious liberty; that every man has the right to practice and propagate his beliefs.

We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord’s day and that, in a special sense, it is the divinely appointed day for worship and spiritual exercise.

We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of the conscience and Prince of the kings of the earth.

*All content is taken from febcentral.ca/WhatWeBelieve as we are a FEB Church.