OUR VISION

We are a community-based church living by the power of the Holy Spirit, the three dimensional life of Jesus Christ. Consisting of UP (with Father God), IN (with brothers and sisters), and OUT (with a hurting World).
Freedom in Christ Church is led by Pastor Mark Hochgertel and Pastor Jim Shields.

STATEMENT OF FAITH

  • We believe the Bible to be inspired and authoritative Word of God. (II Timothy 3:16, 17) 

  • We believe in the triune Godhead as eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (II Corinthians 13:14) 

  • We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious death and Atonement through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His present priestly ministry. (I Timothy 3:16; Romans 3:25, 26) 

  • We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. It is accomplished by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. (Hebrews 9:22; Jude 24,25) 

  • We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as on the day of Pentecost and in the continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit as evidenced in charismatic gifts and ministries, and in the fruit of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. (Romans 12:6-8; I Corinthians 12:8-10, 28; Galatians 5:22, 23) 

  • We believe in sanctification through the Word of God and by the Holy Spirit, and we believe in personal holiness, purity of heart and life. (Rom. 12:1-2, Heb. 4:12, 2 Tim. 3:16) 

  • We believe in divine healing through faith in the Name of Jesus Christ, and we believe that healing is included in the Redemption. (Is 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, 1 Cor. 12:9-10) 

  • We believe in water baptism as a public confession of our faith in Jesus Christ. An outward sign of an inward change. (Acts 2:41, Acts 10:47, Matt. 3:13-17) 

  • We believe in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as distinct from the New Birth, in speaking with tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance (Acts 2:4), in the gifts of the Spirit, and in the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit. We believe that all of these are available to believers today. 

  • We believe in Christ’s physical and personal return in power and great glory and in His present and everlasting dominion. (Acts 1:11; Thessalonians 4:16) 

  • We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: the saved unto resurrection of eternal life and the lost unto the resurrection of punishment in hell. (Rev 20:11-15) 

  • We believe in sexual purity as defined in the Bible, which requires abstinence from adultery, fornication, incest, homosexuality, or other sexual relationships or practices forbidden by scripture. (Hebrews 13:4; I Corinthians 6:18; Lev 18:1-30) 

  • We believe that marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant, committed for a lifetime and is a sacred institution established by God. (Matthew 19:4-6) 

  • We believe that the church is called to go into all the earth with the gospel of Jesus Christ. (Mark 16:15-16; Acts 1:8)

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