What we teach
At Deal Pentecostal Church we emphasise that God is with us and is for us because He loves us! One of the Names of Jesus is Emmanuel which means God is with us (Matt.1:23). He has promised to make His home with us, to live with us for ever and He will never leave us. (John 14:23; Col.1:27; Heb.13:5)
Because of this we can live our lives in confidence knowing that God not only loves the world: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) But He loves the Church: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians 5:25) And He loves me: I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
We also emphasise that God’s Word works in Believers lives: when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is at work in you who believe. (1 Thes. 2:13)
The statement of Fundamental Truths is not intended as a creed for the Church but as a basis for unity for a full Gospel Ministry: I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought. 1Cor.1:10