MISSION STATEMENT
Welker’s Crossroads EMC exists to love God through vibrant worship, to love others through Christian fellowship and making disciples who grow in their faith, and to serve the world through compassionate ministry.
BASIC PRINCIIPLES
There are certain basic principles that underlie and compel the existence of the Evangelical Methodist Church. They can be summed up in six brief statements:
The church is orthodox in belief
We mean by orthodox in belief that we take our stand on the Bible as the Word of God—its plenary, unique inspiration and its supreme authority in our lives.
Pre-millennial regarding the second coming,
We are pre-millennial in belief that the second coming of Christ will precede a literal thousand year reign of Christ and then earthly history will come to a final climax. There will follow a literal ‘new heaven and new earth’ where those who have been washed by the blood of Christ for their sins will live eternally with the Triune God.
Missionary in outlook,
We mean by missionary in outlook that there is a burning desire to keep before the world the size of the plan of redemption, that ‘He by the grace of God should taste death for every man,’ and to hasten under all possible Christian means the salvation of men, and to keep before the church the magnitude of her unfinished task.
Evangelistic in endeavor,
By the statement that we are evangelistic in endeavor we mean that we seek the salvation of men through concentrated effort to win them to Christ. That concentrated effort largely is the awakening that comes in revival spirit when the Holy Spirit convicts of sin in either mass evangelism or personal evangelism. We seek to promote true revivals of religion in our churches as the supreme aim of the church and relate men to Christ in saving and sanctifying grace.
Cooperative in spirit,
We are cooperative in spirit. We urge and believe that we should cooperate with other like bodies of the evangelical Christian faith and not
withdraw ourselves into a closed religious corporation. The largeness of the undertaking, the brevity of opportunity, and the constraining love of Christ all show that we should cooperate to the fullest with Bible-believing Christians everywhere, and still maintain a deep and abiding loyalty to our own church as a God-directed and Christ-centered movement for such a time as this.
and Wesleyan in doctrine
We are Wesleyan in doctrine, in that we affirm that salvation is received through faith alone, by the grace of God, not human performance. This grace enables a person to make a choice to receive the message of salvation, repent, and be converted to Christ. God’s will is for every person to be saved, and Christ’s death was a universal atonement for the sins of all generations. The work of the Holy Spirit through sanctification is progressive throughout life, resulting in continuing growth into a mature reflection of Christ to the world. The believer experiences a ‘Pentecost’ that cleanses the heart from self-interest in a defining experience of total surrender to God and empowers him/her to be a greater witness for Christ. We are in this life to fully experience the mind of Christ and the perfect love of God which is single focused to serve God and humanity.
EMC DOCTRINE
With a firm conviction that the large gulf which separates true historic and conservative Christianity from modernistic and liberal Christianity is an ever-widening chasm which can never be healed; the Evangelical Methodist came into being as a conservative, evangelical church, orthodox in belief, pre-millennial regarding the second coming, missionary in outlook, evangelistic in endeavor, cooperative in spirit, and Wesleyan in doctrine.
The Word of God
We accept and believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. We receive it as the revealed will and way of God for our daily life.
The Trinity
We believe in the Godhead, the Holy Trinity, in which there are three Persons of one substance, power, and eternity – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The Father
We believe in God the Father Almighty, revealed to mankind as an awesome God of Grace, love, might, mercy, justice and holiness.
Jesus Christ
We believe in Jesus Christ, who is both God and man; His virgin birth, His sinless life, His substitutionary and redeeming death, and His physical resurrection.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit who illuminates the Word of God, reveals Christ to the world and empowers believers to serve God.
Regeneration
We believe each person must acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ and be born again before he/she is a true Christian.
Sanctification
We believe in entire sanctification following regeneration, whereby the believer is cleansed from the pollution of sin, saved from its power, and enabled through grace, to love God with all his/her heart.
A Holy Life
We believe that every Christian is expected to live a holy life, one that is truly Christian.
Sacraments
We believe in two sacraments, Baptism and Holy Communion. The mode of baptism is left to the conscience of the individual.
Resurrection
We believe in the resurrection of all men to be judged and receive their due rewards; eternal life for the redeemed and eternal punishment for the unbelievers.
The Church
We believe in the local and universal church, which is the body of Christ on earth.
The Lord’s Return
We believe in the blessed hope, the impending, literal return of Jesus Christ to receive His church unto Himself.