Palisades Community Chapel
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
statement_of_faith
<!DOCTYPE html> About | Palisades Community Chapel top of page Home What we Believe Core Values Our Vision Watch Previous Upcoming Events Give Contact More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. WHAT WE BELIEVE Supremacy of the Word of God The Bible should be the foundation of the believer's life and the final authority for all situations and doctrine. Lifestyle of Worship Each believer should live their life to glorify God as an expression of worship. Multigenerational Focus The church is called to teach and empower all ages to attain their God-given potential. Priesthood of BelieversSource ↗
mission
<!DOCTYPE html> About | Palisades Community Chapel top of page Home What we Believe Core Values Our Vision Watch Previous Upcoming Events Give Contact More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. OUR VISION "Love God, love your neighbor, and reach the world." Connect We dream of a church where fellowship is a body of compassionate members demonstrating God's unconditional love through genuine personal relationship that circumvent age, generation, race and background through food, fun and fellowship. Serve We dream of a church where discipleship is th equipping and training of the believeSource ↗
mission
--> About | Palisades Community Chapel top of page Home What we Believe Core Values Our Vision Watch Previous Upcoming Events Give Contact More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. WHAT WE BELIEVE Supremacy of the Word of God The Bible should be the foundation of the believer's life and the final authority for all situations and doctrine. Lifestyle of Worship Each believer should live their life to glorify God as an expression of worship. Multigenerational Focus The church is called to teach and empower all ages to attain their God-given potential. Priesthood of Believers Each believerSource ↗
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