Statement of Faith for Northern Village Ministries

• We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.
• We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit
• We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary and is true God and true man.

·         We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred physical death, and spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, thus being sinners in thought, word and deed.

• We believe in the personality of Satan.
• We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice; and that all who believe in Him are justified by the shedding of His blood.
• We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His bodily ascension into heaven, and in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.
• We believe in the “Blessed Hope”the personal, pre-millennial and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
• We believe that all who accept by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and so become children of God.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and bear fruit, which will remain.
• We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust – the just to everlasting bliss and the unjust to everlasting punishment

Our Positional Practices

1.            We hold the position that undo emphasis must not be given to what some might practice as the demonstrative gifts, claiming that these gifts are evidences of a superior spirituality.  Spirituality is not measured by the possession of gifts as Paul admonished the Christians in Corinth, but the true measure of spirituality is seen in the Christ-like character of 1 Cor. 13 and Gal. 5:22-26.

2.            As a result of this position, and considering the interdenominational nature of the Native Village Ministry, we support the scriptural injunction of doing things decently and in order, and we ask that all the team members and volunteers honor this stand while working as a team member.  (1Cor. 14:33, 40, 1 Cor. 12:30,31)

 Demonstrative Gifts Include

            a.  Speaking in tongues as the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit

            b.  Baptism of the Spirit as a second blessing

            c. Being slain in the Spirit

            d. Undue emphasis on healing

            e. Other evidences in the category of signs and wonders