New Covenant Church Dubai

To Know Christ and To Make Him Known

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Statement of Faith

About Us

WindTower on Old Houise We are a Full Gospel congregation of believers from different cultural backgrounds and age groups who love the Lord and seek to serve Him.

Every congregation has its distinctiveness and this church may best be described in the following way:

Christian: Members of this church believe in Jesus Christ and have experienced His life changing influence. They try to follow Jesus' teaching in their daily living.

Evangelical: All the teaching in the church is based on the Bible and has the good news of salvation as its central focus. In various ways we bring the gospel to the community and support missionary work in the UAE and overseas in obedience to the Great Commission.

Full Gospel. The church is constituted as a Full Gospel church and we baptise, by immersion, those who come to personal faith in Jesus Christ. Please see "What we Believe" section below on this page.

Recognition:The church is registered under the Chaplaincy of Dubai & Sharjah and enjoys the security and good relationships with the churches registered with the Chaplaincy.

It is our privilege to serve a wonderful God and share the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ, his Son who died and rose again that we might have eternal life. Our motto sums up the Great Commandment and the Great Commission of our Lord Jesus Christ
"To Know Christ and to Make Him Known"

Whether you are a professing Christian or someone just wanting to know more about God, please read the other pages of the website, discover more about us. You are most welcome to our Friday meetings or to make contact with us. Our Church office mobile number is 971-50-5183450

What We Believe!

The Scriptures

We accept the Bible, including the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament, as the written Word of God. The Bible is an essential and infallible record of God's self-disclosure to mankind. It leads us to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Being given by God the Scriptures are both fully and verbally inspired by God. Therefore, as originally given, the Bible is free of error in all it teaches. Each book is to be interpreted according to its context and purpose and in reverent obedience to the Lord who speaks through it in living power. All believers are exhorted to study the Scriptures and diligently apply them to their lives. The Scriptures are the authoritative rule and guide of all Christian life, practice and doctrine. They are not to be added to, superseded, or changed by later tradition or extra-biblical revelation. Every doctrinal formulation must be put to the test of the full counsel of God in Holy Scripture.

God is Triune

There is one God, infinite, eternal, almighty, and perfect in holiness, truth and love. In the unity of the godhead there are three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, coexistent, coequal, co-eternal. The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Holy Spirit, yet each is fully Deity. The triune nature of God is eternal, having always lived in perfect loving community, wholeness and satisfaction within Himself. One God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is the foundation of Christian faith and life.

God the Father

God the Father is the loving Creator and Sovereign of heaven and earth. By His word and for His glory, He freely created the world from nothing. Through the same Word He daily sustains all His creatures. He is faithful to every promise, works all things together for the good of those who love Him, and in His unfathomable grace He gave His Son Jesus Christ for mankind's redemption. He made man for loving fellowship with Himself, and intended that all creation should live to the praise of His glory.

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was the eternal Word made flesh, supernaturally conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He was perfect in nature, teaching and obedience therefore without sin. He is fully God made fully man. He was always with God and is God. Through Him all things came into being and were created. He was before all things and in Him all things hold together by the word of His power. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation and in Him dwells the fullness of the godhead bodily. He is the only Saviour for the sins of the world having died on Calvary's cross for all mankind. By His death in our place, He revealed the divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. Having redeemed us from sin, the third day He rose bodily from the grave, victorious over death and the powers of darkness and for a period of forty days appeared to over five hundred witnesses performing many convincing proofs of His resurrection. He ascended into heaven where, at God's right hand, He intercedes for His people and rules as Lord over all. He is the Head of His body the Church and should be adored, loved, served and accepted by all.

The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgement. Through the proclamation of the Gospel He persuades us to repent of our sins and confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit a person is led to trust in divine mercy. The Holy Spirit unites believers to Jesus Christ in faith, brings about their new birth, and dwells within them. The Holy Spirit has come to glorify the Son who in turn came to glorify the Father. He will lead the Church into all truth. He is to be respected, honoured and worshipped as God the Third Person of the Trinity.

Man

God made man - male and female - in His own image, as the crown of creation, that man might have fellowship with Him. Tempted by Satan, man rebelled against God. Being estranged from his Maker, yet responsible to Him, he became subject to divine wrath, inwardly sinful and apart from grace, incapable of returning to God. Fallen, sinful people, whatever their character or attainments, are lost and without hope apart from salvation in Christ.

The Gospel

Jesus Christ is the Gospel. The Good News is revealed in His birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension. Christ's crucifixion is the heart of the Gospel, His resurrection is the power of the Gospel and His ascension is the glory of the Gospel.

Man's Response to the Gospel

The Gospel is to be preached to all people but is only effectual to those who genuinely repent of their sins and put saving faith in Christ. Biblical repentance is characterised by a changed life, and saving faith is evidenced by Kingdom service or works. While neither repentance nor works save, unless a person is willing to deny himself, pick up his cross and follow Jesus Christ, he cannot become a disciple.

Man's Inheritance through the Gospel

Salvation, the free gift of God, is provided solely by His grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Anyone turning from sin in repentance and looking by faith to Christ and His substitutionary death is born anew into eternal life by the Holy Spirit and declared to be righteous as a gift. Through Christ's great redemptive act an individual is reconciled to God as Father and becomes His child. The believer is forgiven the debt of his sin and liberated from the law of sin and death into the freedom of God's Spirit.

Baptism in Water

In accordance with the command and example of Christ, water baptism should follow repentance³⁶. Water baptism is the external sign of an internal work. Baptism represents the burial of the old life, and the start of a new life in Christ. It is therefore a powerful statement by the believer of the cutting off of the old life and sinful nature to Christ, and a commitment to lead a new life following Christ.

Sanctification

The Holy Spirit is the active agent in our sanctification and seeks to produce His fruit in us as we are conformed to the image of Christ. As we are led by the Spirit, we grow in the knowledge of the Lord, freely keeping His commandments and endeavouring so to live in the world so that all people may see our good works and glorify our Father who is in heaven.

Baptism in the Holy Spirit

From the point of salvation the believer is indwellt by the Holy Spirit. The believer then has the distinct experience of being filled with or baptised in the Holy Spirit. The promise of the Father is freely available to all who believe in Jesus Christ. Jesus baptizes the believer in the Holy Spirit thereby enabling him to exercise the powers of the age to come in ministry and mission. The Holy Spirit desires to fill each believer with power to witness and impart His supernatural gifts for the edification of the Body and the work of ministry in the world. All the gifts of the Holy Spirit at work in the church of the First Century are available today and are to be earnestly desired and expected. They are essential in the mission of the Church in the world today.

The Church

God by His Word and Spirit creates the Church, calling sinful men out of the whole human race into the fellowship of Christ's Body. By the same Word and Spirit, He guides and preserves that new redeemed humanity. The Church is not a religious institution or denomination. Rather, the Church universal is made up of those who have become genuine followers of Christ and personally appropriated the Gospel. The Church exists to worship and glorify God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It also exists to serve Him by faithfully doing His will in the earth. This involves a commitment to see the Gospel preached in all the world. The ultimate mission of the Church is the redemption of souls to the glory of God. When God transforms human nature, this then becomes the chief means of society's transformation.

All members of the Church universal are to be a vital and committed part of a local church. The local church is to be a loving community where every person in significant, regardless of their age, background or how long they have been saved. In this context they are called to work out the New Covenant as the people of God and demonstrate the reality of the Kingdom of God. All members of the church are to be nurtured and equipped for the work of ministry. In the context of the local church, God's people receive pastoral care and the opportunity to employ their God-given gifts in His service in relation to one another and the world in missions in a practical demonstration of the gospel to the poor and lost.

The Consummation

The Consummation of all things includes the visible, personal and glorious return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead and the gathering up of those alive in Christ, the judgement of the just and the unjust and the fulfilment of Christ's Kingdom in the new heavens and the new earth. In the Consummation, Satan with his hosts and all those outside Christ are finally separated from the presence of God, enduring eternal punishment, but the righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with Him forever. Married to Christ as His Bride, the Church will be in the presence of God forever, serving Him and giving Him unending praise and glory. Then shall the eager expectation of creation be fulfilled and the whole earth shall proclaim the glory of God who makes all things new.

Summarized

We believe the whole Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God. The Bible is our sole rule of faith and practice. Whatever authority tradition, prophetic revelation, or experience have, they are secondary to and only valuable in as much as they are in agreement with Scripture.
We believe that there is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless humanity, in His miracles, in His vicarious sufferings and atoning sacrifice through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His future catching away of His church and personal return to establish His kingdom on earth.
We believe in the resurrection of the body; those who are believers to eternal glory in heaven and those who are unbelievers to everlasting punishment in hell.
We believe that lost and sinful mankind is made righteous only through personal faith alone in Jesus Christ alone by the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that all believers are called to holiness in heart and life, that they are called to lead people of all nations to faith in Christ and growth in Christ likeness, that they may go to God in expectation of bodily healing, and may experience the baptism in the Holy Spirit. We believe that the normal initial evidence of being baptized in the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.
We believe in the spiritual unity of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Office Address:

office@nccuae.org