Our Statement of Faith

Ephesians Four Network of Churches & Ministers is an international, non-denominational, multicultural, apostolic-prophetic alliance of Fivefold Ministers colaboring together to accomplish the end-times purposes and plans of God. The following are essentials of faith we believe in::

• One God, eternally existent in three distinct yet unified Divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
• The Bible (consisting of the sixty-six canonized books comprising the Old and New Testaments; excluding the Apochrypha) is the Holy, inspired, infallible, and ultimately authoritative Word of God;
• The Deity, Lordship, and Headship of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to sit down at the right hand of God the Father, and His personal return in power and glory;
• God created Mankind in two sacrosanct and immutable genders—male and female—assigning disparate and distinguishing physiological and psychological, i.e., natural, distinctions to each gender that identify them and that are, in fact and actuality, inalterable;
• Natural human life begins at the precise moment of conception and unnatural termination of life is murder, eliciting the wrath and judgment of God, as with all other acts of sinful rebellion against God without the justification of Christ Jesus;
• Marriage or Holy Matrimony and sexual expression and sensuality of any sort or kind is divinely restricted to transpiring between one innate man/male and one innate woman/female so united, and homosexuality and bestiality are divinely forbidden and are an abomination to God;
• Mankind, though originally created by God in His image and likeness, is fallen, sinful, lost, and separated from God; and is only justified, restored, redeemed, and regenerated by grace through faith in Christ and the infusion of the Holy Spirit;
• The present and continuing ministry of the Holy Spirit within the believer to sanctify and guide, and through believers to minister by means of the unction, anointing, and manifestation gifts to others;
• The essentialness and availability of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, initially evidenced by supernatural “unknown tongues,” unto all believers who but ask Christ Jesus for it;
• The resurrection of the saved unto eternal life and glorification and the lost unto eternal death and damnation.

If these beliefs comport with yours and you’d like to have fellowship with likeminded believers and ministry leaders, we invite you to go to the Registration Page and register your ministry as a “Friend” of the network. Registration is FREE!

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Additional Declarations

In addition to the afore-stated seven essentials we would also like to offer the following affirmations and denials to further help to explain our position on some teachings that have emerged in the Pentecostal and Neo-Pentecostal movements. We do this in an attempt to be totally forthright as to what we believe and to minimize the potential for misunderstandings and breaches of fellowship based on doctrine. We want it to be known that it is our desire to relate and fellowship with all genuine believers and legitimate Christ-centered ministries around the world, and that our relationship and fellowship be based solely on the Agape Love of God that has been shed abroad in our hearts through Christ, rather than on whether or not we believe precisely alike on all points of our doctrine. That, we believe, should be the primary premise of all relationships in the Body of Christ!

The Manifest Sons of God Theology
WE AFFIRM that “the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God” (Rom. 8:19), and that “all who are being led by the Spirit of God (obedient believers), these are sons of God” (Rom. 8:14) who presently possess “the first fruits of the Spirit” and “groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons” (Rom. 5:23), which will be fully realized when “the redemption of our body” (i.e., the eradication of the sin nature) takes place “at the last trump of God” when Christ returns to claim the true Church as His Eternal Bride —

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (thus we will not inherit these promises as mortal humans); nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be CHANGED — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet (this is when the full/final redemption will take place). For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible (sin nature eradicated), and we shall be CHANGED. For this corruptible must put on INCORRUPTION (eradication of sin nature), and this mortal must put on immortality. So WHEN this corruptible has put on incorruption (and not before), and this mortal has put on immortality, THEN shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is swallowed up in victory.'” (1 Cor. 15:52; NKJV)

WE DENY that we will experience the fullness of our inheritance as sons of God BEFORE Jesus returns. We further deny that believers in this age can attain unto a level of supposed “faith” that elevates them to Divine-like status or enables them to attain Divine qualities and abilities that resurrected believers will possess after the resurrection. Although with the redemption of the Cross of Christ believers have been granted “the firstfruits of the Spirit” (Rom. 8:23), and have “TASTED…the powers of the age to come” (Heb. 6:5), and have been blessed “with every spiritual blessing in Heavenly places in Christ” (Eph. 1:3), nevertheless we have not yet received the full inheritance we will receive when we receive our full redemption, which is the redemption of our bodies that will result from the eradication of the sin nature that will transpire at the resurrection and rapture of the Church.

The Latter Rain
WE AFFIRM the Church will experience the greatest outpouring of the Spirit in history before Jesus returns (Joel 2:28–32; Acts 2:14-21). This outpouring will result in a great harvest of souls and restoration and renewal of the Church so that it walks in godliness as declared in the Sermon on the Mount (Mat. 5–7). We also affirm the continued operation of the Fivefold Ministry and the Fivefold Ministry Model for the spiritual maturing, edifying, and equipping of the saints (Eph. 4:11–13). We also affirm the validity of the Baptism in the Holy Spirit and the resulting “charismata” or “Manifestations of the Spirit” delineated in First Corinthians 12.

WE DENY the distinctive deviant doctrines that cannot be reasonably and hermeneutically supported by Scripture that emerged during “The New Order of the Latter Rain Movement,” which began in 1948 in New Battlesford, Saskatchewan, Canada, and have been reintroduced and proliferated during the Charismatic Movement; e.g., Joel’s Army, Phinehas Priesthood, Manifested Sons of God, First Fruits, Amillennialism, Pentecostal Gnosticism, Modalism, Restoration of the Tabernacle of David, New Apostolic Restoration (NAR); et al.