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Feature Pages(5)
- FeatureThe Church — what we believeThe church is not a building or an event but a people — everyone God has called out of the world and joined to Jesus — gathered in local congregations to worship, to be taught, to love one another, and to carry the good news to everybody else.
- FeatureBaptism in the Holy SpiritFive receptions of the Spirit in Acts that refuse to line up — the two-stage question, tongues, and cessationism each argued at full strength before MannaFest plants its flag.
- FeatureThe Holy Spirit — what we believeHe is God himself, a person and not a power — the one who convicts, gives new birth, lives inside believers, grows Christlike character in them, and still gives gifts to the church today.
- FeaturePrayer in Luke — Jesus at Every HingeThe Gospel of prayer: Jesus praying at the baptism, the Twelve, the confession, the mountain, the garden, the cross — plus the three prayer-parables found only here.
- FeatureActs 8:37 — The Ethiopian's confession — "If thou believest with all thine heart"The eunuch's confession of faith before baptism is missing from the earliest Greek manuscripts, though it was already known and quoted in the second century — most likely as a line from the church's baptism service that found its way into the text.
Verses(5+)
- VerseEphesians 4:5one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
- VerseLuke 20:4John’s baptism—was it from heaven, or from men?”
- VerseMark 11:30John’s baptism—was it from heaven or from men? Answer Me!”
- VerseActs 19:3“Into what, then, were you baptized?” Paul asked. “The baptism of John,” they replied.
- VerseLuke 12:50But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!