Abundant Life Center
AI summary — doctrinal positions on this page are inferred by AI from this church's own public statements and may be inaccurate.
Inherited from denomination
What Assemblies of God USA teaches
Positions bound by the denomination's confessional standards. This is what the tradition teaches; whether this specific congregation publicly holds each is a separate question — see Statements below.
Affirms
- Believer's BaptismSTRONGBaptist confessions; Pentecostal fundamentals; Anabaptist tradition
- Marriage as one man and one womanSTRONGGenesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4–6; historic universal Christian teaching.
- Permissibility of divorce and remarriagestandardMatthew 19:9 (adultery ground); 1 Corinthians 7:15 (abandonment ground). Practice varies.
- Women in pastoral / ordained officestandardVarious denominational actions (TEC 1976, ELCA 1970s, PC(USA) 1956, AG 1935, CofE 1994 priests / 2014 bishops, etc.)
Denies
- Apostolic SuccessionstandardCongregational and presbyterian polity reject the necessity of tactile episcopal succession.
- Assumption of MarystandardUniversal Protestant rejection — not attested in Scripture; not received as dogma.
- Homosexual practice and biblical sexual ethicsSTRONGRomans 1:26–27; 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; historic universal Christian teaching.
- Immaculate ConceptionSTRONGUniversal Protestant + Orthodox rejection. Orthodox reject on the grounds that they hold prepurification at the Annunciation, not conception.
- Infant BaptismSTRONGBaptist confessions (New Hampshire; BFM 2000 VII); Anabaptist / Schleitheim; Pentecostal fundamentals
- Perpetual Virginity of MarystandardNatural reading of Matthew 13:55–56 (brothers of Jesus); typical modern Baptist / evangelical position.
- Real PresencestandardMemorialist / Zwinglian view; typical Baptist and Free Church position
- TransubstantiationSTRONGOrthodox reject the Aristotelian metaphysics; Lutherans use 'sacramental union'; 39 Articles Art. XXVIII rejects explicitly; Reformed/Baptist reject substance-change.
Wrestles with
- Pacifism vs. just-warweakDefault just-war framework — usually unwritten. Inheriting at weak confidence.
In their own words
Statements
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<!DOCTYPE html> About | Abundant Life Center Loving God and Loving People Home About Events Contact Give Photo Gallery Home About Events Contact Give Photo Gallery Get to know us ALC was incorporated on March 14th, 1945. Since then, ALC has been blessed with many great leaders and pastors, and has been a lighthouse to the city of Toledo Oregon. Our mission is to be a community of believers that love God and share His love with others. We look forward to discovering God's purpose for us as a church and for you as an individual. Get to know us ALC was incorporated on March 14th, 1945. Since theSource ↗
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About | Abundant Life Center Loving God and Loving People Home About Events Contact Give Photo Gallery Home About Events Contact Give Photo Gallery Get to know us ALC was incorporated on March 14th, 1945. Since then, ALC has been blessed with many great leaders and pastors, and has been a lighthouse to the city of Toledo Oregon. Our mission is to be a community of believers that love God and share His love with others. We look forward to discovering God's purpose for us as a church and for you as an individual. Get to know us ALC was incorporated on March 14th, 1945. Since then, ALC has been bSource ↗
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