Church Doctrine / What We Believe

A doctrine is a term commonly used today to refer to a body of belief about God, Christ, Man, Church and other related concepts. Members of the early Church; however first saw sound doctrine as faithful behaviour (Titus 2:1-10). Fundamental, essential beliefs or truth are truths that must be believed or obeyed (Greek Hupakouo) in order for one to be a child of God.

*Biblical terminology of leadership to their servant leaders (Jeremiah 3:15, Acts 20:28; 2 Corinthians 6:4; 1Timothy 3:1-7 and Ephesians 4:11…)

*There is one God eternally manifests as: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:29; John 1:1; Isaiah 9:6 and 2 Corinthians 3:17)

*The operation of the Divine gifts of the Holy Spirit for today (1 Corinthians 12-14)

*The Holy Bible to be the inspired, infallible and authoritative Word of God. It is the only rule for Christian faith and conduct “Canon”. (2 Timothy 3:15-16 and 2 Peter 1:20-21)

*That Jesus Christ is the only begotten son of God. He walked on this earth. He died on our behalf at the Calvary, raised in the third day and now sits at the right side of God. His work is finished. (John 3:16, 1:1-10; Matthew 1:18-25; Hebrews 2:17 and Romans 4:25)

*In baptism of the Holy Spirit as in Acts 1:8

*That God will confirm with signs and wonders when Gospel is preached (Mark 16:17-20)

*That Jesus Christ will return for His church (Greek Parousia)

*Royal Crown Ministries Int’l will regroup:

*The Holy Spirit leads believers to a greater apprehension of Gospel truths (Greek, Parakletos).

* Baptism by immersion (Matthew 28:19 and Mark 1:9-10)

*The communion of the Lord’s Table (Greek, Eucharist) (1 Corinthians 11:23-32; Matthew 26:26-29; Luke 22:17-19; 1Cor 11:20 and 1 Corinthians 10:16+21)

*The dedication of children (Mark 10:13-16; 1 Samuel 1:19-28; 1 Samuel 2:1-10 and Luke 2:27)

*Prayer for the sick (James 5:4 and Mark 16:13+18)

*Prayer for the infilling of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:15-17 and Acts 19:6

*Biblical and sound marriage

*Members will be led to confess their faith in Jesus Christ to demonstrate verbally, to declare their Christian life with testimony towards others.

*God created human being in his image with intelligence, wisdom and spiritual awareness and destined to communicate with him (Genesis 1:27; Romans 5:2 and Psalms 14:3)

*We do believe in one God who is Jesus Christ. The law was put in charge to recognize His negative or positive attitude in order to lead Him to Jesus Christ. It has implied the living rules for all believers, that by observing, testifying and recognizing God for his salvation. (Romans 3:20; 1 John 5:3; Galates 3:24 and James 2:13).Through Jesus Christ, we do preach what has been accomplished in our favour; by listening we do know that God offers truly His salvation and repentance. (Mark 16:15; Luke 4:18 and Acts 15:7).

* Conversion and new life, it is a deep change stage that God operates though Holy Spirit to a person who deems it fit (John 3:3 and 2 Corinthians 5:17)

* Faith (Greek Pistis) Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see  (Hebrews 11:1 and Colossians 2:12)

*Baptism by immersion, having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him. Through your faith in the power of God, which raised Him from the dead (Colossians 2:12; Acts 2:38; Romans 6:4 and John 3:23)

*Candidate for immersion

The early believers began to organize themselves in groups or Churches with various officers. Thus, it is clear that the early Church thought of itself as a visible organization as well as an invisible one, namely a body of all those in space and time who had a specific faith content,(1Corinthians 12:13 and Colossians 1:24).

*The Pastor is its chairperson, Is a self supporting congregation, shepherded by a Pastor, the leadership committee and the departments; Each local Church should endeavour to reach all people in its area and establish branch churches wherever possible; Lord’s Supper (1Corinthians 11:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 11:24; Luke 22:17-19 and Acts 2:42-46)

It is Jesus Christ recommendation to remember His death, burial, and resurrection; it is given by the Pastor of the local church and it can be given to an appointed leader or minister by the Pastor.

*Prayer: It is a communication act with God (James 5:16; Matthew 7:7 and Jeremiah 33:7)

*The basis of financing in the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l shall be the scriptural method whereby each member pays his/her tithes and offerings systematically into the work of the Church

*The local Church does pay its tithes 1/10% to the office of the Founding Pastor Office

*Royal Crown Ministries International finances are usually provided by:

• • • Donations, and online giving
    • Contributions coming from evangelical group donation
    • Christian Organizations
    • Churches and individual offerings, and sporadically the creation of income-generating projects can be asked in order to keep going the Ministry or church’s accounts.

*Believers may become members of the Church upon approval of the Pastor and the committee when they have met the following qualifications:

• • • Regeneration by the Holy Spirit (Matthew 19:28; John 3:3-8; 2Corinthians 5:17 and Titus 3:5);
    • Confession of the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour (Romans 10:9-10);
    • Consistent Christian living (Galates 5:22-23) and abstinence (Galates 5:19-22 and Ephesians 4:22-32);
    • Support of the Church by tithes and offerings;
    • Agreement to accept and abide by the rules and regulations of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l;
    • The believers will obey their leaders and will submit (Heb 13:17);

*Members of other Church denominations or ministries may be admitted to membership in The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l if they fulfil the qualifications for the church membership and have ended up with their previous membership;

*The members of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the responsibility to feed and to give a shelter to their Pastors (2 Kings 4:8-10);

*The members of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the duties or mandates to obey and to make their Pastors happy one or blessed (Hebrews 13:17);

*Members of the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the obligations to assist their Pastors with double honour (1 Timothy 5:18-28)

*The members of the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the rights to share their materials with their instructors (Gal             6:6)

*The members of the Royal Crown ministries Int’l have the responsibility to contribute with their materials into the pastoral work (Exodus 35:4-29)

*The members of the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the rights of having affection and consideration for their leaders;

*The members of the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l have the duties to pay their tithes in the house of the Lord not private business (Malachi 3:6-18)

*He/ She is a church member the one who accepts Jesus Christ as his/her personal Lord and Saviour, who contributes and participates physically in the Church.

*The members in The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l are addressed as brothers and sisters or brethrens (Greek Ach) and have all joint responsibility for the welfare of the congregation (Romans 10:12; Hebrews 13:1; 1 Peter 2:17; 1 Peter 3:8 and Psalms 133:1)

 *The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l, should function as far as possible as the early Church did in the book of Acts “Restoration”

*The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l will be known as the mother Church where the Founding Pastor resides and all other Churches will be looked upon as satellite Churches and will be referred to as such or local congregations.

*When necessary other Pastors or believers will be assisted in whichever way possible, as being the extension of God’s kingdom, whether in:

• • • Training and equipping (Ephesians 4:12) Greek Katartismos
    • Fellowship (Greek Koinonia)
    • Stewardship ( Greek Oikonomos), which actually originates from two Greek words: Oikos = a house, and nemo = to arrange
    • Respecting the Royal Crown Ministries Int’l vision and values

*They will always remain autonomous

*Finances, salaries and running expenses will be completely independent from The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l and have its own bank account.

*Each satellite Church is encouraged to pay part of the tithes (Hebrew Masa) to mission of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l

*Each Pastor enjoying the covering of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l pays his/her tithes into the bank account of The Royal Crown Ministries Int’l (Hebrews 13:7)

*Leaders in The Royal Crown Ministries International accept hospitality graciously because their work entitled them to it.

 *Ministers of the Good News deserve to be supported, and our responsibility is to make sure they have what the need.

*There are several ways to encourage those who serve God in his church:

• • • See that they have an adequate salary;
    • See that they are supported emotionally and plan special time to express appreciation for something they have done;
    • Lift their spirits with special surprises from time to time.
    • Our ministers deserve to know we are giving to them cheerfully and generously (Luke 10:7)