"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."
Kings Church Wokingham
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He is the best revelation of God’s character,
which is why the Bible calls him “The Word”, John 1:1-5.
He is everything that needs to be said and understood.
Kings Church works with all who love and look to follow Jesus.
which is why the Bible calls him “The Word”, John 1:1-5.
He is everything that needs to be said and understood.
Kings Church works with all who love and look to follow Jesus.
The Bible is “inspired and useful”, 2 Tim 3:16.
It contains the words that help us understand and interpret Jesus (The Word)
It equips us to live the full and rich life Jesus wants for us, John 10:10.
It contains the words that help us understand and interpret Jesus (The Word)
It equips us to live the full and rich life Jesus wants for us, John 10:10.
Both “The Word” and the words of the Bible tell us that
we need to be led into Truth by the Holy Spirit, John 16:13.
This is a dynamic, day-by-day relationship which includes
supernatural grace and favour to live beyond and above our natural limitations
we need to be led into Truth by the Holy Spirit, John 16:13.
This is a dynamic, day-by-day relationship which includes
supernatural grace and favour to live beyond and above our natural limitations
Core Beliefs
God
There is one eternally living and loving God who has three distinct persons in his uncreated nature: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
God can only be an Eternal Father if he has eternally been a Father to someone. That someone is God the Son.
Father and Son must share an essence, both distinct from, but at the same time defining and filling up both as fully God. That is God the Holy Spirit.
As a Trinity, God is necessarily relational. God is Love is the foundational choice in the character of God and all his Grace and Truth flows from this.
God can only be an Eternal Father if he has eternally been a Father to someone. That someone is God the Son.
Father and Son must share an essence, both distinct from, but at the same time defining and filling up both as fully God. That is God the Holy Spirit.
As a Trinity, God is necessarily relational. God is Love is the foundational choice in the character of God and all his Grace and Truth flows from this.
Revelation
The transcendent and incomprehensible God has made himself known. He has communicated with us in terms we can can relate to and that accurately reflect eternal truth beyond our imagination.
God has done this primarily through his Son, Jesus Christ, who is the visible image of the invisible God, Col 1:15.
But also through Creation that exhibits the character and attributes of its creator.
And thirdly by writing His story in the lives and moments of history which he then inspired his loved children to record, write down, compile and edit into the scriptures we know as the Bible.
Mankind
Humanity, both men and women were made in the image of God. And together they have been given the challenge to manage their planet, and a desire to be fruitful and fill it, Gen 1:28.
People combine a physical heritage with divine privilege. Made (like animals) out of the stuff of earth, Gen 1:24, Humans also received a breath of spiritual life, Gen 2:7.
Man was a combination of mud & glory! The ideal agent to implement Heaven’s plans on Earth. His Heart and Head could see how things should be and his Hands and Feet felt fulfilled as they made them so.
But there was a possible (if not inevitable) “problem” with the plan…
The Fall
The New Testament explains that Creation required us to be mature heirs of God the Father… not just blindly obedient servants, Rom 8:16-19. But for that to happen meant mankind always had to have the possibility of rebellion against heaven’s direction.
Atheist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote “if there were gods, how could I endure it not to be one!”
There is a God, and this temptation (to be what we can imagine but never be) is what led us all to pursue things in our own way.
The rest is history! Which would have been a lot worse were it not for the foresight, planning and intervention of a good God.
Salvation
Jesus was and is "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth" Rev 13:8.
You see, For a perfect God to maintain an intimate two-way relationship with a freely and wilfully fallen creation, the God-head always knew a part of himself would have to die. Forgiveness always costs the forgiver.
Jesus, God the Son, offered himself for this role even before the start of creation. The crucifixion of Jesus under Pontius Pilate was an eternal event, but an eternal event that happened in our history.
On the Cross Jesus experienced our separation from God the Father, and the God-head itself was torn open to make space for its wayward creation.
Salvation has always been through Jesus.
You see, For a perfect God to maintain an intimate two-way relationship with a freely and wilfully fallen creation, the God-head always knew a part of himself would have to die. Forgiveness always costs the forgiver.
Jesus, God the Son, offered himself for this role even before the start of creation. The crucifixion of Jesus under Pontius Pilate was an eternal event, but an eternal event that happened in our history.
On the Cross Jesus experienced our separation from God the Father, and the God-head itself was torn open to make space for its wayward creation.
Salvation has always been through Jesus.
The Church
"You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house...", 1 Peter 2:5
Jesus taught the Kingdom of God but left a community, the Church! Which is not a building or static institution but is the living, on-going body of Christ.
"If you have tasted the kindness of the Lord... you also as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house..."
The church is the infrastructure and agent of God's Kingdom coming on earth...making the world look more more like heaven every day.
Resurrection
There is more to Life than this. Both in the here and now but also in an age to come!
It is "God... alone who has immortality", 1 Timothy 6:16. But we share in Jesus' life now and through this we becomes "partners in his divine nature". Eternal life is a consequence of of our shared life in Christ.
There is a resurrection for everyone, God's Justice requires it. For those in Jesus it is to eternal life, John 3:15.
It is "God... alone who has immortality", 1 Timothy 6:16. But we share in Jesus' life now and through this we becomes "partners in his divine nature". Eternal life is a consequence of of our shared life in Christ.
There is a resurrection for everyone, God's Justice requires it. For those in Jesus it is to eternal life, John 3:15.