What We Believe?

• We Believe in the verbal inspiration and infallibility of the Holy Bible as the final authority for all matters of faith and conduct. (2 Tim 3:16)

• In one God, eternally existing and revealing Himself to us in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, distinguishable, but indivisible. (John 14:23-26)
  
  
• We Believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, that He is true God and true man, His sinless life, and His atoning death on the cross which He obtained for us and eternal redemption.  (Col 2:9-15)

• We Believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His appearance to many after His death, in His ascension into heaven, in His present life as our high priest and advocate, in His future second coming, and in His millennial rule. (Acts 1:1-3)
  
  
• We Believe in the total sinfulness of mankind for which we deserve everlasting punishment, and thus in the necessity for regeneration and salvation of sinners by grace, that all must acknowledge and repent of their sin and have faith in the perfect and complete work of Christ on the cross as the only means of salvation. (John 14:6)

• We Believe in the work of the Holy Spirit at the time of salvation to give a new heart to know and obey the Lord. (2 Cor 5:17)
  
  
• We Believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit after salvation as an endowment of power and supernatural gifts for the equipping of His Church. (Acts 2:4)

• We Believe in the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as manifested in Scripture and in the ability of God to minister divine healing in its varied aspects as practiced in the Early Church. (I Corinthians 12:7-11)
  
  
• We Believe that God has called His people to love Him with their whole heart and live as servants of the Holy Lord. (Mark 12:28-31)

• We Believe that there is one church made up of believers who serve God through the local church around the world.  These local churches should be under the sovereign headship of the Lord Jesus Christ, exercising autonomous government under Him, administering all their local affairs and ministries for the spreading of the Gospel. (Ephesians)
  
  
• We Believe that we are called to be a people belonging to one another as the Body of Christ, that our citizenship is in heaven, and that one day we shall be joined to our Savior and made like Him as our final reward as sons and daughters of God, to live with Him for all eternity. (Romans 12)

• We Believe the baptism of water is symbolic of death to our sinful nature and life through Christ. (Romans 6:3-4)
  
  
• We Believe God gives apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, and evangelists for equipping and maturing the saints. (Ephesians 4:11-13)

• We Believe The local church is God's vehicle to make His manifold wisdom known in the earth. (Ephesians 3:10)
  
  
  
  

We believe in the practice of:

• Governmental team leadership, expressed through relational authority (Eph 4:11-16)

• Discipleship through relationships (Matthew 28:20)
  
  
• Laying on of hands (Acts 13:3-4)

• Expressing the different gifts  given to men and women through the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 12:1-31)
  
  
• House-to-house fellowship (Acts 2:46)

• Sharing of communion or the Lord’s supper as a covenant relationship with the Lord Jesus and with one another in the Body of Christ (I Cor 11:23-32)
  
  
• Water Baptism (Mark 16:16)

• Fasting (Mark 6:16)
  
  
• Contemporary, traditional, and prophetic instrumental worship (Psalms 150)
  
  
  
  

  Legacy:

  In a church world full of religious organizations and mega-ministries, God's heart has not changed. His heart is to be a Father and have a loving family of sons and daughters who honor Him with their lifestyle. The last verse in the Old Testament (Malachi 4:6) contains the last words from God before 400 years of silence, so it has great significance. This verse reveals the desire of God to have the hearts of fathers turned back towards their sons and daughters and the hearts of sons and daughters turned back towards their fathers.

  God has always had a generational cry within Him as He looks out over time. The generation that we live is no different, many are looking for real fathers, even within the church. Many believers can point to ample teaching and abundant giftings, but few can say, “I had a spiritual father in my life that really influenced me.”

  Here at CLF church, we've accepted the responsibility to build a spiritual house to raise our children in; to create a place where they can grow up. A house where young lives will be shaped, nurtured, protected and equipped to be effective disciples. A church that builds for legacy will have lasting fruit passed down from generation to generation. Our heart is that of the aged apostle John near the close of his life. After having experienced many great exploits in his life of faith, he looked back over his journey and had this to say, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth” (3 John: 4). Legacy is in the heart of God, the Father, and it is in our hearts as well.