What We Believe

Church Congregation

Mountain View is an assembly of Kingdom Citizens where Jesus Christ is King.

We seek first God’s Kingdom submitting to His Sovereignty over all. The one, living God reveals Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and personally interacts with His creation, inviting humankind into His eternal Kingdom. We desire to follow Jesus and share the Good News of the Kingdom of God. As members of the body of Christ and citizens of God’s Kingdom we believe… (please click on a tab below)

The Bible is the inspired, authoritative Word of God. Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are without error or misstatement in their moral and spiritual teaching and historical facts. [Psalm 19:7-9; 1 Thessalonians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:15-17, 2 Peter 1:19-21]

There is one God, eternally existent in three persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. [Matthew 28:19; John 10:30; John 20:21-22; Ephesians 4:4-6]

We believe in the deity and humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the world. [John 1:1-4; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15-20]

All people are created in God’s image. Because of Adam’s disobedience to God’s command, Adam and all people have fallen into sin, have a sin nature, and are separated from God. God, who is rich in mercy, has made only one provision for the salvation of people, which is faith in the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross as the satisfactory payment for sin. Upon repentance of sin and new faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit births the believer as a new creation in the Kingdom of God, transferring him or her from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of the beloved Son. [John 3:16 and 14:6; Romans 10:9-13; Ephesians 2:4-9]

The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer to cooperate with God through trial and suffering to allow God to persuade you of His truth and transform your life so you can accomplish God’s purpose. We are discovering who we are as new creations in Jesus Christ as we progress toward spiritual maturity. [1 Peter 5:6-11; Romans 12:1-2; James 1:2-4; Ephesians 4:22-24]

Jesus sent The Helper to convince, persuade, and lead us into all truth, which results in godly living. [John 14:16, 26 and 16:8-13; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 2:14]

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church, and citizens of His Kingdom. [1 Corinthians 12:12, 27; Ephesians 1:22-23]

We believe that the ministries of evangelism (sharing and proclaiming the message of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ) and discipleship (helping followers of Christ grow into maturity in Christ) are a responsibility of all followers of Jesus Christ. To advance God’s Kingdom, we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, and our lives to His authority. [Matthew 9:35-38 and 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 1 Peter 3:15]

Our Affirmations

We affirm that God has established particular roles and relationships for the good of human society. We affirm the sanctity of marriage and that God’s pattern for marriage is revealed at creation. God created one biological male and one biological female and blessed their union through marriage. God has ordained sexual intimacy to be a sacred gift enjoyed only by a man and a woman within the holy covenant of marriage. Any other form of sexual intimacy is sin and is something from which God desires to free His children. [Gen. 1:27-28; Matthew 19:3-9; 1 Cor. 6:9-10, 18-20; Hebrews 13:4]

We affirm the sanctity of all human life from conception until death. [Genesis 1:27; Psalm 139:13-16]
 
We affirm that believers are called to live a life of non-conformity to the standards and behaviors which characterize the world. [Roman 12:1-2; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-16]

We affirm that believers should settle all disputes in a godly manner, seeking counsel from the church whenever problems in relationships arise. [Matthew 18:15-20]

Man with Bible
Man Receiving Communion

Our Practices

We believe that baptism by water, whatever the mode, is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. [Matthew 28: 19-20; Romans 6:3-4; 1 Corinthians 12:13]

We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a sign by which the church thankfully remembers the new covenant which Jesus established by His death and confirmed by His resurrection. Communion is to be observed as a reminder that believers need the continual righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to their lives. The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming. [Matthew 26:26-28; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26]