Innovation Church
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
about_us
<!DOCTYPE html> Innovation Church - about Home about Mega Sports Camp connect Messages calendar giving about us Our Story Our DNA Our Team Our Beliefs our story. Innovation Church has roots that go back nearly 90 years in the Poconos. Starting as a cottage prayer meeting in 1936, several families came together for prayer and Bible study. As that group of believers grew, a pastor was hired, and in 1942 the church voted to join the Assemblies of God and take on the name, Full Gospel Assembly. A local school was rented, later purchased, and served as the church building for nearly 47 years durSource ↗
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Innovation Church - about Home about Mega Sports Camp connect Messages calendar giving about us Our Story Our DNA Our Team Our Beliefs our story. Innovation Church has roots that go back nearly 90 years in the Poconos. Starting as a cottage prayer meeting in 1936, several families came together for prayer and Bible study. As that group of believers grew, a pastor was hired, and in 1942 the church voted to join the Assemblies of God and take on the name, Full Gospel Assembly. A local school was rented, later purchased, and served as the church building for nearly 47 years during which the nameSource ↗
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