acts CHURCH  of  MARICOPA

The Church Plant at a Glance

• A non-denominational church plant by a bi-vocational Ordained Pastor.

• Christ-exalting church life through the Gospel and all of Scripture (1 Cor. 2:2; Luke 24:44).

• Church life patterned after New Testament churches (Acts 2:42; 1 & 2 Tim; 1 Cor. 10-14).

• Biblical doctrine including the sufficiency and inerrancy of Holy Scripture, reformed soteriology, young-earth creationism, cessationism, complementarianism, and premillennialism.

• Part of the Family-Integrated Churches (FIC) network: all children are in the church service to be in the presence of Christ (Mat. 19:14; Acts 21:5), to learn the way they should go and contribute to the service (Eph. 6:1-3; Col. 3:16).

• Sunday meetings follow the regulative principle of worship (Mat. 15:8-9; 1 Cor. 4:6), which is the sufficiency of Scripture applied to church life (2 Tim.1:13).

• Expository and systematic theology preaching on the whole Counsel of God with practical applications for solid Christian growth and equipping for ministry (Acts 20:26-27; 1 Cor. 14:3; 1 Tim. 4:13; 2 Tim. 4:2; Eph. 4:11-12).

• Free all-member participation on Sunday including spontaneous prayer requests, prayers, testimonies, proposed songs, psalms, exhortations, and teachings (1 Cor. 14:26ff; Mat. 21:13).

• Weekly Lord's Supper as a fellowship meal (Mark 14:22; Acts 2:42, 1 Cor. 10:14-31, 11:20,33).

• Bi-monthly city evangelism, ongoing discipleship, and world mission (Mat. 28:19-20; Acts 20:20).

• Elder-led church government (Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5).

• A house church to maximize the intimacy of church members and the generosity to the poor and the Gospel-centered mission (2 Cor. 9:7-13).

• Church Discipline to protect the members, provide accountability (Mat. 18:15–20; 1 Cor. 5:7-12; 2 Cor. 2:5–8), and preserve the purity of the Church for Christ and its testimony to the world.

• An emphasis on family worship: every father is to lead his family before God in daily devotion (Deut. 6:4-9; Eph. 6:4; Ps. 118:15). It is the role of parents to disciple their children to know God and to be godly (Ps. 78:1-7; Mal. 2:15).