Desert Willow Church Core Beliefs

An expanded explantion of our 16 Fundamental truths of the assemblies of God can be reviewed at  ag.org.

Here are the highlights:

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct · 2 Timothy 3:16

God

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

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment (John 16:8)
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who indwells believers at conversion and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills
• Who baptizes and flows out of those yielded to Him giving them power to witness (Acts 1:8). The initial evidence of this baptism is speaking in unknown tongues (Acts 2:4, 11:45-46; 19:6; 1 Cor 12 and 14)

Humankind

We believe that Adam and Eve were actual individuals divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience they fell from that state
• That all their posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all people therefore are guilty before God and condemned to eventual physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord