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OUR VISION

Our ministry is one that uses modern methods in order to reach a modern society that has redefined morality. Though our methods may be contemporary, we live by the unchanging principles found in the Bible, which we believe go beyond the influence of time and culture. Consequently, our vision statement reads as follows...

"Encounter Christian Center is a 21st Century Church with a 1st Century message that gives purpose for living through an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ."


OUR MISSION

Encounter Christian Center is driven by a passion for transformational theology. Our mission is to L.E.A.D. people into a relationship with God that will transform their mind and character to be centered in God not self, thus becoming a servant of others.

This process is called: L.E.A.D. and it is our Leadership Progression...

LEAD

People will begin a spiritual journey as they LEARN who they are in Christ and who they are as a part of the ECC body of believers; as they are EQUIPPED to grow and achieve spiritual maturity; as they ACTIVATE the gifts and resources God has placed in them to enlarge the Kingdom of God on earth; and as they DEVELOP the love and passion for the lost and the broken.


Ephesians 4:11-16 (NLT)
11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. 12 Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. 15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.


  • OUR BELIEFS

    Encounter Christian Center is a community of believers committed to follow Jesus, bring forth the kingdom of God, and seek together the transformational power of the Holy Spirit. We are a Spirit-led, purpose driven church. Here is a basic summary of the Biblical beliefs that ECC upholds.
    • Bible The Bible- We believe the Bible is Inspired by God, it declares His plan for humanity, and that it is written for today, as well as to those in the past (II Tim. 3:16:I Pet 2:2).
    God God - We believe in the one true God as revealed eternally existing in three persons; namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit... otherwise known as the Trinity (Matthew 28:19, John 14; 16, 17).
    JESUS Jesus Christ - We believe that Jesus Christ is the only Son of the Father, conceived of the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary... that Jesus was crucified, buried, and raised from the dead. That He ascended to heaven and lives eternally at the right hand of the Father as the Intercessor (John 3:16, Acts 4:12, 1 John 2:22).
    HOLY SPIRIT The Ministry of the Holy Spirit- We believe in the infilling of the Holy Spirit and this infilling is the empowerment for service in the kingdom of Christ (Acts 2:4). We believe that spiritual gifts are available to the body of Christ today and the practice of spiritual gifts is found in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 12, Eph. 4, and Rom. 12).
    humanity Humanity: Sin and Salvation - We believe humanity was created good and upright for God said, "Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness," "But man, by voluntary transgression fell and his only hope is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God." (Gen. 1:26-31; 3:1-7; Rom. 5:12-21). Consequently, we believe in the "born-again" experience known as salvation (John 3:3-7, Acts 10:43) and that this experience is not earned but received by God's grace through faith professed in the person of Jesus Christ and Him alone (John 14:6, Romans 5:15)
    CHURCH The Church and Its Purpose on Earth - We believe the Church is the body of Christ and that each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the General Assembly and Church (Eph. 1:22-23; 2:22; Heb. 12:23). The Church has a five-fold purpose and calling according to the New Testament and that is to love the Lord completely, to love one's neighbor as one's self, to go and make disciples, to baptize them into the fellowship, and to teach them to obey (Matthew 22: 37-40, 28:19,20).
    FUTURE Our Future - We believe that in these uncertain times, the hope of the believer is found in the return of Christ for His Church as He promised (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18).



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