Cottage Grove Faith 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 International Church of the Foursquare Gospel 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
- Infant BaptismSTRONGWestminster XXVIII; Book of Concord SC IV; Council of Trent Session VII; Wesleyan Articles Art. XVII
- 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.
- 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
statement_of_faith
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Cottage Grove Faith Center | The Team Skip to main content Menu Menu Home Donate About Us The Team What We Believe Kids Youth Upcoming Home Donate About Us The Team What We Believe Kids Youth Upcoming The Team What We Believe LEADERSHIP TEAM AT CGFC Type content here... Type content here... PASTOR KEVIN & DEANA PRUETT LEAD PASTORS CONTACT: KEVIN@CG4.TV | DEANA@CG4.TV angela pearson Children's ministry Angela@cg4.tv Type content here... nATALIE THIESSEN wORSHIP PASTOR/aDMIN Natalie@cg4.tv Type content here... Jacob THIESSEN wORSHIP PASTOR jacob@cg4.tv Type content here... VICTOR PEARSON Tech DiSource ↗
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Cottage Grove Faith Center | What We Believe Skip to main content Menu Menu Home Donate About Us The Team What We Believe Kids Youth Upcoming Home Donate About Us The Team What We Believe Kids Youth Upcoming The Team What We Believe What We Believe "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." Hebrews 13:8 The term "Foursquare" stands for the four-fold ministry of Jesus Christ as: The Savior (Romans 10:9) Baptizer with the Holy Spirit (Luke 3:16) Healer (1 Peter 2:24) Coming King (Acts 1:11) If you would like to learn more about the Foursquare Church, please visit their main websSource ↗
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