What We

Believe

The Abilities Church

The Abilities church believes in all the moral and doctrinal essentials of the Christian Faith.  We believe in having unity on the essentials, liberty on the non-essentials and showing Christian charity in all things.  Our practice and policy is to agree to disagree when it comes to secondary issues of conscience. We also believe in disagreeing respectfully with people or groups who do not hold to our believes and values. 

Our Primary Mission

   1. Preaching the gospel to people with our Lord's compassion

2. Promoting the growth of people with our Lord's character

  3. Proportioning the groups of people within our Lord's church

General Vision, Mission & Mandate

Our vision

To cultivate spiritual equality, empowerment and encouragement

for people of all abilities within the church

Our mission

To give people with disabilities the equal opportunity to participate

in the worship and ministry of the church

Our mandate

To minister within an inter-denominational, inclusive and inspirational

Christian environment that is traditional in values and believes but

contemporay and casual in approach and style

Our goal is to maintain a 50% congregational balance between people with and without visible disabilities                                  

Our Christian Beliefs

   Doctrinal Essentials

   1. Belief in Creator God & Special Creation

   2. Inspiration of Scriptures

   3. Belief in Trinity

   4. Virgin birth & deity Of Jesus

   5. Literal death, burial & resurrection of Christ

   6. Salvation by grace & believer's baptism

   7. Eternal Life & Death

   8. Literal return of Christ

   9. Belief in the unity of the church

  10. End time fulfillment of prophecy

  Moral Essentials

   1. Sanctity of marriage

   2. Dignity of human life (life at conception)

   3. Freedom of conscience and expression

   4. Belief in traditional family values and modesty in deportment

   5. Dedication to the church as an inclusive, diverse and equal body

   6. Loyalty to government and civil law

   7. Devotion to prayer and Bible study

   8. Personal evangelism and discipleship

   9. Cultivating the fruit of the spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, 

       goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control).

  10. Rejecting the fruit of the flesh (sexual immorality, impurity,

       debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of

       rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy and drunkenness).

No one denomination or church group has a corner on the truth or a monopoly on the church (There is only one faith, one baptism and one Lord).  The church is a mixture of human persuasions (the non-essentials)  and divine truth (the essentials).  We must have unity on the essentials, liberty on the non-essentials and Christian charity in all things.  We can disagree and debate but should never divide within the frame work of the essentials of the Christian Faith.  The essentials of the Christian faith are what identify us as Chrisitans and the Christian Church.