Rehoboth New 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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Rehoboth New Life Center MENU Home About Leadership Beliefs Annual Women’s Prayer Breakfast JLH Women’s Mentoring Services Where do I fit? Events Media Live Broadcast Sermons Sunday School Lessons Tuesday Night Bible Studies Pastor Mike Brownie’s Messages Assistant Pastor Chris Brownie’s Messages Assistant Pastor Nick Hatton’s Messages Give Contact Us Prayer Requests Statement of Beliefs God: There is only one God (Deuteronomy 6:4). He is the creator of heaven and earth, and of all living beings. He has revealed Himself to humanity as the Father (Creator), in the Son (SSource ↗
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Rehoboth New Life Center MENU Home About Leadership Beliefs Annual Women’s Prayer Breakfast JLH Women’s Mentoring Services Where do I fit? Events Media Live Broadcast Sermons Sunday School Lessons Tuesday Night Bible Studies Pastor Mike Brownie’s Messages Assistant Pastor Chris Brownie’s Messages Assistant Pastor Nick Hatton’s Messages Give Contact Us Prayer Requests Our History Rehoboth Apostolic was formed when Bishop J. M. Brownie left England to fulfill a God-given vision he received earlier on in his ministry. After establishing three other churches in both JamaicaSource ↗
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