Horizon Christian Church
was founded in April 1995 as a Fellowship of believers, under the
shepherding of Jesus Christ. Our greatest desire is to know Christ
and to be conformed to His likeness under the work of the Holy Spirit.
We believe
that the only basis for Christian fellowship is the love of Christ
(agape), which supersedes any denominational differences and, without
which, we do not have the right to call ourselves Christians.
We believe
that our worship to God should be spiritual. Therefore we are open and
obedient to the guiding of the Holy Spirit in our worship to God.
We believe
that our worship to God should be inspired. Therefore we pay particular
attention to spiritual music in our worship.
We believe
that our worship to God should be with meaning. Therefore in our worship
we lay great stress on the study of God's Word, so that it would
teach us how to worship.
We believe
that our worship to God should be fruitful. Therefore God's love in our
lives should be the highest expression of the fact that we truly
worship Him.
We believe
all the basics of Evangelical Christian Biblical teaching.
We believe
in the infallibility of Scripture as the Word of God and that the Old
and New Testaments are God-inspired. The Bible is recognised by us as
the unique authoritative source of truth about God, man and the
relationship between them.
We believe
that God exists eternally in three separate persons in the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
We believe
that God is Father, transcendental and sovereign Creator of all.
We believe
that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, that He was born of a
virgin, lived a sinless life, providing the possibility of the
redemption of our sins by the means of His substitutionary death on
the cross, that He was bodily resurrected by the power of the Holy
Spirit and that He remains at the right hand of the Father, eternally
living and interceding for us.
We believe
that after the ascension He poured out the Holy Spirit on the believers
in Jerusalem, giving them the opportunity to fulfil His commission of
the preaching of the Gospel to the whole world.
We believe
that all people, by their nature, are separated from God and carry
the responsibility for their own sins but also that salvation,
redemption and forgiveness are freely offered to them by the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ. At that moment, when a person confesses
his sins and receives Jesus as his personal Saviour and Lord, trusting
Him for salvation, this person receives new birth and is sealed by the
Spirit, all his sins are forgiven and he becomes God's child, appointed
to eternal life with the Lord.
We believe
in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as referred to in Scripture and in
their use today, if they are used according to Scripture. As believers
we desire the greater gifts, seeking opportunities to practise them in
love in a way that the body of Christ would be built up. We believe
that love is even more important the more gifts are used and that using
spiritual gifts without love is meaningless.
We believe
that the administration of the church should be simple and not
bureaucratic and complex. We rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit
rather than on man's wisdom.
We wait
for the rapture of the church before the start of the Great Tribulation
and believe that the Second Coming of Christ with His saints to rule
the world will be visible and start the millennial kingdom. This
encourages us to live holy lives, worship sincerely, serve with
dedication, study the Word carefully, regularly be in fellowship
and practice water baptism for adults and Holy Communion.
We seek
to teach God's Word so that it is applicable to the life of every
person and leads the person to reach maturity in Christ.
We renounce
1) the point of view that a true Christian can be possessed by demons.
2) The "Five Statements of Calvinism" (i.e. there is no place for
free will in life; the sacrifice of Christ was made for a limited number
of people; the impossibility of refusing God's grace, which follows that
God predestined some people for Hell).
3) "Positive confession" (the faith movement which claims that God
can be governed by man's will in the aim of achieving miracles and
healing).
4) human prophecy that contradicts Scripture.
5) the inclusion of humanistic or worldly psychology and philosophy
in Biblical teaching.
6) the preference for practising the spiritual gifts in pursuit
of feelings, excluding Biblical teaching.
Our meetings
are focussed on relationship with God by means of worship, prayer and
study of God's Word. We study the Word both thematically and
consecutively.
We renounce
divorce as a drastic form of solving problems within the family.
Therefore we call for patience in family relationships and for the
fulfilment of each one's Biblical responsibilities within marriage.
We see
abortion as a crime before God and man as we consider it to be the
murder of the unborn child.
We consider
the receiving of traditional, professional medical help to be perfectly
acceptable, including blood transfusions. We do not call our followers
to actions which cause damage to health or which contain risk to life.
We consider
that it is possible for men, who have reached the appropriate age,
to fulfil their national service.
We believe
that the existing authorities are established from God and
therefore consider it our responsibility to submit to the authorities.