Finger Lakes Christian Fellowship, a Great Church in Seneca Falls, New York
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Pastoral Accountability - Ordination and Pastoral Accountability
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Pastoral Accountability - The Church and the Leaders Accountability
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Pastoral Accountability - God Uses Others to Express His Accountability
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Pastoral Accountability - Every Man Will Answer for How They Use Their Liberty
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Article published - Thursday, February 8, 2007
Nothing does more damage to the Gospel of Jesus Christ than when His leaders compromise their integrity. The church can sustain great blows from her adversary the devil (1 Pet 5:8), if in those attacks she can discover great riches and deep purposes that propel her forward. There is something mystically unifying when a body of believers recognizes the hand of Satan in a situation. The healthy church body binds tightly together in warfare and moves to rectify whatever must be rectified.
One the other hand, when the leadership of a local assembly rejects the commands of Christ and the safeguards that exist for both them and their church, it is very difficult for a local church to recover from the damage. The foundation of truth that girds the local assembly begins to shake violently whenever a leader or teacher compromises themselves and what they have supposedly stood for.
We feel strongly about financially standing with missionaries who are "about the Father's business" on the foreign field.
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Finger Lakes Christian Fellowship
12 North Park Street
Seneca Falls, NY 13148
Kreative Kids is where our children take what they are learning in Sunday School and Worship and convert it into plays, musicals, puppet shows, skits and other fun kinds of presentations.
Using cirruculum from RBP our teachers lead their classrooms - ages 2-3, 4-5, 6-8, 9-11, 12-14 and Adult Classes at 9:00 am each Sunday Morning.
"Developing friendships and making a difference in the lives of our women for Christ"
We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God’s wealth entrusted to him, is obligated to support his local church financially. We believe that God has established the tithe as a basis for giving. In addition, every Christian should also give other offerings sacrificially and cheerfully to the support of the church, the relief of those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. We believe that a Christian relinquishes all rights to direct the use of the tithe or offering once the gift has been made. (Gen. 14:20; Prov. 3:9-10; Malachi 3:10; Matt 23:23; Acts 4:34-37; 1 Cor. 16:2; 2 Cor. 9:6-7; Gal. 6:6; Eph. 4:28; 1 Tim. 5:17-18; 1 John 3:17)
We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ we must use all available means to take the Gospel to the lost in our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the uttermost parts of the earth and not wait for them to come to us. (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 5:20)
We believe that Christians are prohibited from bringing civil lawsuits against other Christians to resolve personal disputes unless they have exhausted every possible means to resolve the matter – including calling on the church leadership to mediate the dispute if possible. All claims and dispute must be resolved without malice or slander. (Matt 18:15-18; 1 Cor. 6:1-8; Eph. 4:31-32)
We believe that we should demonstrate love for others, not only toward fellow believers, but also toward both those who are not believers and those who oppose us. We are to deal with those who oppose us graciously, gently, patiently, and humbly. God forbids the stirring up of strife, the taking of revenge, or the threat or the use of violence as a means of resolving personal conflict or obtaining personal justice. Although God commands us to abhor sinful actions, we are to love and pray for any person who engages in such sinful actions. (Lev. 19:18; Matt. 5:44-48; Luke 6:31; John 13:34-35; Rom. 12:9-10; 17-21; 13:8-10; Phil. 2:2-4; 2 Tim. 2:24-26; Titus 3:2; 1 John 3:17-18)
We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking of unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that abortions of pregnancies due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population control, or the physical or mental well being of the mother are acceptable. Yet we desire to extend ministry to those who have had abortions in the past and want them to know the healing and restoring Love of Christ. (Job 3:16; Ps. 51:5; 139:14-16; Isa. 44:24; 49:1, 5; Jer. 1:5; 20:15-18; Luke 1:44)
We believe that God disapproves of divorce and intends marriage to last until one of the spouses dies. Divorce and remarriage is regarded as adultery except on the grounds of fornication. We also believe that divorced and remarried persons or divorced persons may hold positions of service in the church and be greatly used of God for Christian service. (Mal. 2:14-17; Matt. 19:3-12; Rom. 7:1-3)
1. We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and the church. The husband is to be the leader of the home, and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church. Accordingly, only men are eligible for licensure and ordination by the church. (Gal. 3:28; Col. 3:18; 1 Tim. 2:8-15; 3:4-5, 12)
1. We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman. (Gen. 2:24; Rom. 7:2; 1 Cor. 7:10; Eph. 5:22-23)
We believe that God has ordained and created all authority consisting of three basic institutions: 1) marriage, 2) the church, and 3) the state. Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authorities themselves) are answerable to God and governed by His Word. God has given each institution specific Biblical responsibilities and balanced those responsibilities with the understanding that no institution has the right to infringe upon the other. Marriage, the church, and the state are equal and sovereign in their respective Biblically assigned spheres of responsibility under God. (Rom. 13:1-7; Eph. 5:22-24; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet. 2:13-14)
We believe that God created the universe in six literal days. We reject evolution, the Gap Theory, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin. (Gen. 1-2; Ex. 20:11)
We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the Fall of Man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire. (Job 1:6-7; Isa. 14:12-17; Matt. 4:2-11; 25:41; Rev. 20:10)
1. We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matt. 25:46; John 5:28, 29; 11:25-26; Rev. 20:5-6, 12-13)
We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, imminent return of Christ Who will rapture His church prior to the seven-year tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly return with His saints, to establish His earthly Messianic Kingdom which was promised to the nation of Israel. (Ps. 89:3-4; Dan. 2:31-45; Zech. 14:4-11; I Thess. 1:10; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Rev. 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6)
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord. God commands His people to separate from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices, and associations, and to refrain from all immodest and immoderate appearances. (Rom. 12:1-2; 14:13; 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 John 9-11; Lev. 19:28; 1 Cor. 6:19-20)
1. We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is solely made up of born-again persons. (1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 11:2; Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27)
1. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom. 8:1; 38-39; 1 Cor. 1:4-8; 1 Pet. 1:4-5)
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. We believe that all sins, except blasphemy of the Holy Spirit (which is the rejection of Christ as Savior), are forgivable. (John 1:12; Eph. 1:7; 2:8-10; Heb 9:22-23; 1 Pet. 1:18-19; Matt. 12:31-32; 1 John 1:9)
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God; but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God. Man is totally depraved and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition. (Gen. 1:26-27; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph. 2:1-3; 4:17-19)
1. We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 3:6; Eph. 1:13-14)
1. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men. (Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19-21; Gal. 4:4-5; Phil. 2:5-8)
We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; John 14:10, 26)
We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life which define man’s responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Four of these dispensations—the promise, the law, the church, and the kingdom—are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture. (Gen. 1:28; 1 Cor. 9:17; 2 Cor. 3:9-18; Gal. 3:13-25; Eph. 1:10; 3:2-10; Col. 1:24-25, 27; Rev. 20:2-6)
The Finger Lakes Christian Fellowship Statement of Faith
The following list is made up of links to what we believe about ....
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the verbally and plenary inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and, therefore, are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man. (2 Tim. 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21)
Beginning at 8:00 am:
Our worship team and band arrive for practice and to make preparations for the worship service.
 Pastor Jerry & Karen Graziano |
I received Christ as a sixteen year old in 1980 shortly after the death of my father. This was a very hard time for me. I felt lost and very alone. A very precious couple named Clark and Chris patiently explained the Gospel to me and I made a personal decision to receive Christ as my Savior.
Pastoral Accountability ~ Position paper documents on Pastoral Accountability by Gerald Graziano.
Home ~ Welcome
About Us ~ Information about Finger Lakes Chrsitian Fellowship
Contacting Us ~ How to find our church or communicate with us.
Our Ministries ~ We have various outreaches to our community and world.
Bible Study Tools ~ Doctrinal position papers and links to other Bible related sites.
Special Events ~ Upcoming special events on our calendar
Doctrinal Statement ~ The below Statement of Faith does not exhaust the extent of our faith. The Bible itself is the sole and final source of all that we believe. We do believe, however, that the foregoing Statement of Faith accurately represents the teaching of the Bible and, therefore, is binding upon all members. All literature used in the church shall be in complete agreement with the Statement of Faith