Our Beliefs

This is the ”Statement of Fundamental Truths” that R.E.A.L. MEN Ministry adheres to. The Deity of Jesus Christ, Salvation, the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and the Second Coming of Christ are considered foundational Doctrines which are essential to our ministry’s core mission of reaching and discipling the world for Christ.

The Bible is our all-sufficient rule for faith and practice. This Statement of Fundamental Truths is intended simply as a basis of fellowship among us (i.e., that we all speak the same thing, 1 Corinthians 1:10; Acts 2:42). No claim is made that it covers all Biblical truth, only that it covers our need as to these fundamental doctrines.

1. The Scriptures Inspired

The Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are verbally inspired of God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct.

  • 2 Timothy 3:15-17
  • 1 Thessalonians 2:13
  • 2 Peter 1:21

2. The One True God

The one true God has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent “I AM,” the Creator of heaven and earth and the Redeemer of mankind. He has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • Deuteronomy 6:4
  • Isaiah 43:10,11
  • Matthew 28:19
  • Luke 3:22

3. The Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. The Scriptures declare:

His virgin birth.

  • Matthew 1:23
  • Luke 1:31
  • Luke 1:35

His sinless life.

  • Hebrews 7:26
  • 1 Peter 2:22

His miracles.

  • Acts 2:22
  • Acts 10:38

His substitutionary work on the cross.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:3
  • 2 Corinthians 5:21

His bodily resurrection from the dead.

  • Matthew 28:6
  • Luke 24:39
  • 1 Corinthians 15:4

His exaltation to the right hand of God.

  • Acts 1:9
  • Acts 1:11
  • Acts 2:33
  • Philippians 2:9-11
  • Hebrews 1:3

4. The Fall of Man

Man was created good and upright; for God said, “Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness.” However, man by voluntary transgression fell and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God.

  • Genesis 1:26,27
  • Genesis 2:17
  • Genesis 3:6
  • Romans 5:12-19

5. The Salvation of Man

Man’s only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

Conditions to Salvation

Salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life.

  • Luke 24:47
  • John 3:3
  • Romans 10:13-15
  • Ephesians 2:8
  • Titus 2:11
  • Titus 3:5-7

The Evidence of Salvation

The inward evidence of salvation is the direct witness of the Spirit.

  • Romans 8:16

The outward evidence to all men is a life of righteousness and true holiness.

  • Ephesians 4:24
  • Titus 2:12

6. Holy Communion

The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements –bread and the fruit of the vine– is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ , a memorial of his suffering and death, a prophecy of His second coming, is enjoined on all believers “till He come!”

  • 2 Peter 1:4
  • 1 Corinthians 11:26

7. The Baptism in the Holy Spirit

All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry.

  • Luke 24:49
  • Acts 1:4
  • Acts 1:8
  • 1 Corinthians 12:1-31

This experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth.

  • Acts 8:12-17
  • Acts 10:44-46
  • Acts 11:14-16
  • Acts 15:7-9

With the baptism in the Holy Spirit come such experiences as:

  • an overflowing fullness of the Spirit, John 7:37-39, Acts 4:8
  • a deepened reverence for God, Acts 2:43, Hebrews 12:28
  • an intensified consecration to God and dedication to His work, Acts 2:42
  • and a more active love for Christ, for His Word and for the lost, Mark 16:20

8. Sanctification

Sanctification is an act of separation from that which is evil, and of dedication unto God.

  • Romans 12:1,2
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23
  • Hebrews 13:12

The Scriptures teach a life of “holiness without which no man shall see the Lord.”

  • Hebrews 12:14

By the power of the Holy Spirit we are able to obey the command: “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”

  • 1 Peter 1:15,16

Sanctification is realized in the believer by recognizing his identification with Christ in His death and resurrection, and by the faith reckoning daily upon the fact of that union, and by offering every faculty continually to the dominion of the Holy Spirit.

  • Romans 6:1-11
  • Romans 6:13
  • Romans 8:1,2
  • Romans 8:13
  • Galatians 2:20
  • Philippians 2:12,13
  • 1 Peter 1:5

9. The Support of the Church and its Mission

The Church is the Body of Christ, the habitation of God through the Spirit, with divine appointments for the fulfillment of the great commission. Each believer, born of the Spirit, is an integral part of the church.

  • Ephesians 1:22,23
  • Ephesians 2:22
  • Hebrews 12:23

Since God’s purpose concerning man is to seek and to save that which is lost, to be worshipped by man, to build a body of believers in the image of His Son, and to demonstrate His love and compassion for all the world, the priority reason for being of RMM is to support the local church by equipping men to:

Evangelize the world.

  • Acts 1:8
  • Matthew 28:19,20
  • Mark 16:15,16

Connect with other followers of Christ in order to worship God.

  • 1 Corinthians 12:13

Be a channel of God’s purpose by being perfected in the image of His Son.

  • Ephesians 4:11-16
  • 1 Corinthians 12:28
  • 1 Corinthians 14:12

Be a man who demonstrate God’s love and compassion for all the world.

  • Psalms 112:9
  • Galatians 2:10; 6:10
  • James 1:27

10. The Return of Christ

The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their translation together with those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord is the imminent and blessed hope of the church.

  • 1 Thessalonians 4:16,17
  • Romans 8:23
  • Titus 2:13
  • 1 Corinthians 15:51,52

11. The Final Judgment

There will be a final judgment in which the wicked dead will be raised and judged according to their works. Whosoever is not found written in the Book of Life, together with the devil and his angels, the beast and the false prophet, will be consigned to the everlasting punishment in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

  • Matthew 25:46
  • Mark 9:43-48
  • Revelation 19:20
  • Revelation 20:11-15
  • Revelation 21:8