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Bible Methodist Church of Peoria
818 E. London Ave.
Peoria Heights, Ill. 61616
309-688-3030
Jim Hayes - Administrator
Church Schedule:
Sunday School 10:00
am
Morning Worship 11:00 am
Childrens Church 11:30 am
Sunday Night
5:00 pm
Wednesday Night 7 pm
- Historical Methodism
- Biblical Doctrine
- Contemporary Outlook
With the express purpose of
introducing new people to what and who we are,we
present the following story of the church
The Government of the Church
The Bible Methodist Church is
essentially democratic in government with basic
similarities to the government of the United States
at the general,
conference, and church levels. The four year
general conference is composed of an equal
number of ministerial and lay delegates. Sessions
of the annual conferences are likewise composed
of an equal number of ministerial and lay delegates
elected by the churches of a given
conference.
The Bible
We believe the Bible, both Old and
New Testament, to be inspired, the only infallible,
authoritative Word of God. We believe the Bible is
the complete revelation of God's plan for the
salvation of man and the divine and final authority
for all Christian belief and practice.
God
We believe that God is an Eternal
Personal Being of absolute knowledge, power and
goodness, eternally existant in three persons;
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of Jesus
Christ, in His virgin birth, free from moral taint of
nature, perfect in life and conduct, in His miracles,
and in His vicarious death. We believe in His
atonement for the whole human race, in His bodily
resurrection from the dead, in His ascension into
heaven where at the right hand of God He is now
our High Priest and Advocate, and in His bodily
return to earth in His second coming.
The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is a
person-the third person in the triune God, and in
His agency in creation, preservation, revelation,
and redemption.
Life Afer Death
We believe in the conscious
existence of the dead, the resurrection of the body,
the final judgement, everlasting life of the saved,
and everlasting punishment of the wicked.
Man
We believe that man was created
by God, that he did not evolve from matter or from
lower forms of life, that because of willful
disobedience he brought upon himself both
physical and spiritual death, and passed on to all
posterity a sinful nature for which he becomes
personally responsible to God at the age of
accountability.
The Way of Salvation
We believe that man's return to
God is only through the enabling of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that both repentance and faith are
conditions for obtaining the new birth. We believe
that born-again Christians are called to be
cleansed from a remaining sinful nature and filled
with the Holy Spirit through a definite confession of
inward sinfulness, a presentation of oneself as a
living sacrifice, and in obedient faith in the
promised cleansing through the atoning blood. It is
not, however, the teaching of the church that this
cleansing delivers from infirmities, form ignorance,
from mistakes which are common to man. We
believe that the Holy Spirit bears witness to both
the new birth and also to heart cleansing and Spirit
fullness, all of which are retained by daily
obedence and faith. We believe that evidence of
the Spirits fullness are not the possessions of
spiritual gifts but rather a life of inward and
outward righteousness. We believe that man's
return to God from a fallen state is completed in
the redemption of the corruptible body at the
resurrection of God's people.
The Church
We believe that the church is God's
ordained institution composed of all who believe on
Jesus Christ for salvation, among whom the Word
of God is preached, divine worship of God is
exercised, the means of grace are duly
administered, the attitudes toward God and man as
exemplified in Jesus Christ are fostered and the
solemn obligation of a world-wide gospel witness is
faithfully fulfilled.
The Practice of Godly Living and Seperation
From the World
We believe the Bible expressly
calls the Christian to a life of righteousness and
good works and to a separation from such
practices, pleasures, pursuits, and plans as will
harm the body as the temple of the Holy Spirit,
weaken the mind, hinder the testimony for Christ,
and hurt the church.
We believe that non-use of tobacco and alcoholic
beverages; non-membership in secret oath-bound
societies; modesty, neatness and simplicity of
attire; absence of superfluous adornment; honesty
in business practices; the refraining from
uncharitable, unprofitable, and unchristian
conversation; proper observance of the Lord's
Day; and chaste and prudent conduct in all the
social and moral areas of life are reasonable and
consistent applications of the Bible teaching of
separation and godly living and are based upon
scriptural principles.
The People of the Church
Some of the finest Christian people
on earth make up the growing Bible Methodist
church family. The Bible Methodist Church
emphasizes the
cultivation of a deeply spiritual life and the practice
of godly living. Never in her history were her
channels open more widely for evangelism,
revival, church extensions, world-wide missions,
and for instruction of all ages in the Word of
God.
Rev and Mrs. J.L.Hysel -
founder of the Bible Methodist Church of Peoria.
Church Board
Main entrance on Illinois St.
Church congregation
Childrens Church
Childrens Church
Childrens Church teacher and one of the students
Adult Sunday School teacher
Song Leader
Rev. Harold Rusty Kaufman
Church Sanctuary
Fall Gathering at Sommer Park 10/21/06
Activites
Our Church along with 5 area
Churches belong to the Illinois Valley Holiness
Association.
Indoor Camp meeting in
November the 2nd Tuesday - Sunday
nights.
President - Jim Hayes
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