Lighthouse Amherstburg Church

OUR VISION

"We envision Lighthouse Church to be a church that is committed to the biblical Christian faith. We envision a church that seeks to communicate and model Christianity to one another and to our community in a fashion that demonstrates awareness of the language and social norms of our day without compromising the truth. We will endeavor to obey the Great Commission by sharing Christ with everyone in the community, making committed followers of Jesus, helping people to live and think in an authentic Christian way, and equipping people to use their spiritual gifts and talents to build the body of Christ, to win the world for God."

OUR CORE VALUES

TEACHING: We envision a church committed to the bold and practical teaching of God's Word, in the language of the people without compromise.

OUTREACH: We envision a church on mission with God to shamelessly proclaim the message of the gospel, locally, regionally and internationally.

WORSHIP: We envision a church lifting high the name of God through personal and corporate prayer, giving, and contemporary music that expresses God's attributes and redemptive work.

COMMUNITY: We envision a church seeking to strengthen our bonds as brothers and sisters by lovingly meeting in small groups and corporate worship for the purpose of spiritual growth and public witness.

HISTORY

We've been around a long time with our ups and downs as a church. We presently are rebuilding under the leadership of a veteran Pastor, Dr. Adrian Ninaber. We're small, but we are growing ! Well it's been just over a year and wow God is so good. We are now averaging 55 - 60 people a week ! Its a great time to get involved. We are focusing on reaching our community for Christ ! Check us out !

Statement of Faith

The Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six books, as originally written, comprising the Old and New testaments were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice and the true basis of Christian union.

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgement; who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.

Satan

We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the archenemy of God and man.

Man

We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually shall be divinely perfected in the image of the Lord.

Future Things

We believe in the personal, bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgement and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.

The Local Church

We believe that a church is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observances of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its only divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the church. We believe that its officers are pastors and deacons.

Ordinances

We believe that there are only two ordinances for the church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following order: Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water, whereby he obeys Christ's command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. The Lord's Supper, which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord's body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes.

The Church And State

We believe in the entire separation of church and state.

Religious Liberty

We believe in religious liberty; that every man has the right to practice and propagate his beliefs.

The Lord's Day

We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord's day and that, in a special sense, it is the divinely appointed day for worship and spiritual exercise.

Civil Government

We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only Lord of the conscience and the Prince of the kings of the earth.

Our Mission

Lighthouse exists to exalt God through passionate and prayerful worship, teach the Word of God with boldness, live life together as a family of sojourners, and make disciples of Christ.

Men's Ministry

"Being a godly man doesn't just happen because you put you're feet on the floor in the morning. You need the Word of God, and you need other men to encourage you along the journey." Jim Hubert Men's Ministry Director

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