WEEKLY MEETINGS WHAT WE BELIEVE

GRAPEVINE magazine • Issue 102 • February/March 2020 22 Sunday services Celebration service

9.00am to 10.45am with classes for Children & Youth Celebration service

11.15am to 1.00pm with classes for Children & Youth Japanese service

2.30pm to 4.30pm in Auditorium Polish service

2.30pm to 4.30pm in Foyer Evening service

6.30pm to 8.00pm See page 23 for details Mondays Prayer meetings

10.00am & 6.00pm Tuesdays Prayer meetings 10.00am & 7.30pm Wednesdays Prayer meetings 10.00am & 6.00pm Little Stars’ Parents & Tots Term-time only 10.00am to 12.00pm Wednesday Afternoon Fellowship

2.00pm to 3.30pm Thursdays Prayer meetings 10.00am & 6.00pm Equippers: Life skills 7.00pm to 9.30pm Registration required Fridays Prayer meetings 10.00am & 6.00pm Equippers: Ministry skills

7.00pm to 9.30pm Registration required All-night Prayer 10.00pm to 5.00am Last Friday of the month Saturdays Local Lighthouse Evangelism

11.00am to 1.00pm THANK YOU FOR YOUR FAITHFUL GIVING TO GOD’S WORK Nov 2019 Dec 2019 Tithes & Offerings £35,514.06 £47,223.02 Building Fund £4,146.43 £4,534.75 Standing Orders £26,455.57 £36,919.80 FINANCE WEEKLY MEETINGS Note from the Treasurer HOW SHOULD WE GIVE ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD? Secretly Matthew 6:1-4 Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Sacrificially 2 Corinthians 8:1-3 Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. Willingly 2 Corinthians 8:11-12 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. Exactly 2 Corinthians 9:7 Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; Cheerfully 2 Corinthians 9:7 ...So let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. Expectantly Luke 6:38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

May God richly bless us all, as we continue to faithfully give to His Kingdom’s work. Amen Sandra Dawodu Please note that you can give to ECC through the website at www.ecc.org.uk or via mobile apps: Acct No 18844979 Sort Code 60 05 16

WHAT WE BELIEVE

1. THE BIBLE: We believe the Bible, as originally given, to be without error, the fully inspired and infallible Word of God and the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and conduct. 2. THE TRINITY: We believe that the Godhead exists co-equally and co-eternally in three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that these Three are one God, sovereign in creation, providence and redemption. 3. THE SAVIOUR: We believe in the true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His real and complete humanity, in His sinless life, in His authoritative teaching, in His substitutionary and atoning sacrifice through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His heavenly intercession and His second advent to receive His Church. 4. THE HOLY SPIRIT: We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit Who proceeds from the Father and the Son and the necessity of His work in conviction of sin, repentance, regeneration and sanctification, and that the believer is also promised an enduement of power as the gift of Christ through the baptism in the Holy Spirit with signs following. Through this enduement the believer is empowered for fuller participation in the ministry of the Church, its worship, evangelism and service. 5. MANKIND: We believe in the universal sinfulness of all mankind since the Fall, rendering man subject to God's wrath and condemnation. 6. SALVATION: We believe in the necessity for salvation of repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by which the sinner is pardoned and accepted as righteous in God's sight. This justification is imputed by the grace of God because of the atoning work of Christ, is received by faith alone and is evidenced by the Fruit of the Spirit and a holy life. 7. THE CHURCH: We believe in the spiritual unity and the priesthood of all believers in Christ and that these comprise the universal Church, the Body of Christ. 8. THE MINISTRY: We believe in the ministries that Christ has set in His Church, namely, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, and in the present operation of the manifold Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to the New Testament. 9. THE ORDINANCES: We believe in the baptism of believers in water in obedience to the command of Christ and the commemoration of Christ's death by the observance of the Lord's Supper until His return. 10.THE COMMISSION: We believe that the Gospel embraces the needs of the whole man and that the Church is therefore commissioned to preach the Gospel to the world and to fulfil a ministry of healing and deliverance to the spiritual and physical needs of mankind. 11.THE COMING KING: We believe in the personal, physical and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign in power and glory. 12.THE FUTURE STATE: We believe in the resurrection of the dead and in the final judgment of the world, the eternal conscious bliss of the righteous and the eternal conscious punishment of the wicked.