Statement of Faith

  • HOWI believes in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired by God. HOWI also believes that the Bible is a revelation from God to men, the infallible rule of faith and conduct and superior to conscience and conduct.

  • HOWI believes in one God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit

  • HOWI believes that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the  Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and He is true God and true man

  • HOWI believes man was created good and upright for God said, “Let us make man in our own image and after our likeness.” But man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ the Son of God.

  • HOWI believes that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a substitute sacrifice according to the scriptures and that all who believe in him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.

  • HOWI believes in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension to  heaven and His present life as our High Priest and advocate. HOWI believes in the  personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ

  • HOWI believes that all who repent of their sins and receive the Lord Jesus Christ  by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God

  • HOWI believes in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts in the Holy Spirit and in the fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.

  • HOWI believes in the baptism of believers in the Holy Spirit is witnessed by the initial sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance

  • HOWI believes in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal  blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal banishment of those who have  rejected the offer of salvation

  • HOWI believes that the one true Church is the holy company of those who have  been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that the local  church on earth should take its character from this conception of HOWI spiritual and  thereof, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of Church membership

  • HOWI believes that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances, Baptism in  water and the Lord’s supper to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual  witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith, that Baptism is the immersion of  the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and  resurrection and that the Lord’s supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of  the Saviour’s broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death,  till He comes

  • Deliverance from sickness and poverty is provided for in the atonement and is  the privilege of all believers

  • HOWI believes that the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the  Lord

  • HOWI believes in the doctrine of sacrification as definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation

  • HOWI is open to any further truth the Holy Spirit may illuminate from the  scriptures

  • HOWI believes in the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original  writing as fully inspired by God

  • HOWI also believes that the Bible is a revelation from God to men, the infallible rule of faith and conduct and superior to conscience and conduct

God

  • HOWI believes in one God, eternally existing in three persons – Father, Son and  the Holy Spirit

Jesus Christ

  • HOWI believes man was created good and upright for God said “Let us make man in our own image and after our likeness.” But man, by voluntary transgression, fell and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ the Son of God.

  • HOWI believes that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins as a substitute sacrifice according to the scriptures and that all who believe in him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood

The Holy Spirit

  • HOWI believes in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts in the Holy Spirit and in the fellowship with the Holy Spirit

Salvation

  • HOWI believes that all who repent of their sins and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God