Church | Berea Barranquilla Ministries

ABOUT OUR CHURCH

WHY BEREA?

We call ourselves BEREA Christian Church because we respond to the requirements of the Father who seeks worshippers in Spirit and in truth (John 4: 23 -24), and we are based on the permanent study of the Bible, as did the inhabitants of Berea who searched the Scriptures daily (Acts 17:11).

MISSION

We are a church that preaches the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and makes disciples in all nations. Our goal is to bring salvation to every men by the knowledge of God through His revealed truth written in the Bible. We seek to teach about faith in Jesus Christ, repentance from sin, and the life of holiness according to the Word of God.

VISION

To be an united Church in the love of God and in the communion of the Holy Spirit, which impacts the world and can carry out the ministry of reconciliation between human beings and God through Jesus Christ. We project ourselves as a community that grows each day in the knowledge of God that is united as a body built on the foundation that is Christ, that stands firm in the way of the Lord, in faith, obedience, and holiness as we await the glorious coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

WHAT WE BELIEVE?

- In the Bible as the only revealed Word of God, inerrant, and inspired by the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16-17. Psalm 19:7, 119: 160. John 17:17).

- In God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as three persons in perfect unity (1 John 5:7. 1 John 2: 22-23. John 4: 24, 10: 30).

- That Jesus is God, He incarnated, died, rose glorified, and ascended to the right hand of God the Father (1 John 5:20. Matthew 1:13. Isaiah 9:6. 2 Peter 1:1. 1 Timothy 3:16. 1 Thessalonians 4:14. 1 Corinthians 15:20. Hebrews 8:1).

- That salvation and eternal life can only be had through: genuine repentance of sins, believing in Jesus as the only and sufficient Savior, receiving Him in the heart, confessing Him, and leading a life of holiness in obedience to the Bible (Acts 2:38, 3:19. Romans 10:9-10. Hebrews 12:14).

- In the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking with tongues (Acts 2:1-13; 10: 44-46).

- In the gifts of the Holy Spirit active in the Church today, for her edification as a body (Romans. 12: 6 - 8. 1 Corinthians 12: 8 - 10): gifts of healings, of working miracles, of knowledge, of wisdom, of prophecy, discernment of spirits, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, service, teaching, exhortation, among others.

- That God left ministries in the Church: apostles (missionaries, Church planters in the world), prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers (Ephesians 4:11-12).

- In the Rapture of the Church before the Tribulation (1 Corinthians 15: 51-54; 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-18; Revelation 3:10. Luke 21:36. John 14:1-3).

- In the prophetic 7-year judgment of the Tribulation or seventieth week of Daniel (Daniel 9: 27; Revelation chaps. 6-16; Matthew 24: 1-29; Mark 13: 1-25; Luke 21:5-26).

- In that after the 7 years of Tribulation, Jesus will come to Earth for the second time with His glorified Church (Matthew 24: 30-31; Mark 13: 26-27; Luke 21:27; Zechariah 14: 4; Revelation 19: 11-21).

- That after His second coming, Christ will reign 1,000 years on Earth (Revelation 20:1-10; Isaiah 65:20).

- In Heaven where all those who are saved in Christ, and obeys His Gospel, goes at death; and in Hell as a real place where everyone who reject Christ and do not live according to His Gospel will go (Matthew 5:22,29,30, 10:28, 18:9, 23:33; Mark 9:43,45,47; Luke 12:5; 2 Peter 2:4; Revelation 20:15, 21:8; Luke 16:23-24).

- In the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City, the city of the Living God to which the Church will go when it is raptured by Jesus (Hebrews 11:10,16; 12:22. Revelation 21:9-27).

- In which God will make New Heavens and a New Earth, where the New Jerusalem will come down (Isaiah 65:17-19; Revelation ch. 21).

- In that God made eternal covenants with glorious promises that will be fulfilled first in the Church when she will be glorified, and in Israel and the nations in the Eternal Kingdom. These promises are: the holy descendants, multiplied eternally; the eternal government (reign and priesthood) and the extended Earth for eternity: Edenic Covenant (Gen 1: 6-28; Hos 6:7); Adamic Covenant (Gen 3: 8-24. Rom 8: 20-22); Noahic Covenant (Gen 9: 1-17); Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 22: 1-18); Law Covenant (Deut 28: 1- 14); Land Covenant (Deut 29:1-29); Davidic Covenant (1 Chron 17: 7-27); New Covenant (Jer 31: 27-40).