What We Believe

We believe that the Bible is inspired by God and is the authoritative and infallible Word of God. It is our guide for faith and practice, revealing God's character, His plan of salvation, and His will for our lives.

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They are co-equal in power, glory, and authority, and are worthy of our worship and obedience.

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, that He is the Son of God and the second person of the Trinity. We affirm His virgin birth, His sinless life, His atoning death on the cross through His shed blood, and His victorious resurrection from the dead.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, demonstrating His victory over sin and death. We affirm His ascension to the right hand of the Father, where He intercedes for His people and reigns as Lord of all.

We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, who indwells every believer upon salvation. The Holy Spirit empowers and enables us to live a godly life, equips us with spiritual gifts, and guides us into all truth.

We affirm the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed as historic and orthodox statements of faith that accurately summarize the foundational beliefs of the Christian faith.

We acknowledge that this statement of faith is not exhaustive, and we recognize the value of ongoing dialogue and discussion regarding matters of faith and doctrine. We welcome conversations with anyone who seeks to deepen their understanding of God's Word and the teachings of the Christian faith.

At Oasis Church, we strive to live out these core beliefs in our worship, teaching, fellowship, and service. We seek to grow in our relationship with God and to share the love of Christ with others, inviting all to join us on this journey of faith.

At Oasis Church, we believe the Kingdom of God was at the center of the message and ministry of Jesus Christ. The Kingdom of God is God's active reign and rule—His will, His authority, and His restoring work breaking into the world through Jesus.

Jesus did not merely announce that the Kingdom would someday come. He proclaimed that the Kingdom had drawn near and demonstrated its reality through the forgiveness of sins, healing the sick, delivering the oppressed, restoring the broken, confronting the powers of darkness, and calling people into a new way of life under the reign of God.

Through His death and resurrection, Jesus defeated sin and death and inaugurated a new creation. Through the Holy Spirit, the life and power of God's Kingdom continue to be present and active in the world through His people.

The Kingdom Is Here and Still Coming

We believe the Kingdom of God is both present and future. Through Jesus Christ, God's Kingdom has genuinely broken into the present age, and we are invited to experience and participate in its reality now. At the same time, Scripture points toward the return of Christ and the future fullness of God's Kingdom, when death will finally be defeated, creation will be fully restored, and all things will be made new.

We embrace this biblical tension without claiming that it provides a complete explanation for every mystery we encounter.

We resist using the future fullness of the Kingdom as a reason to lower our expectation for what God may do in the present. Likewise, we resist constructing doctrines from unanswered questions or experiences that Scripture itself does not fully explain.

We are willing to live faithfully within mystery while continuing to pray, obey, expect, and participate in the work of God's Kingdom today.

Participating in the Kingdom

Jesus invited His followers not merely to believe the message of the Kingdom but to participate in His Kingdom mission.

We believe ordinary followers of Jesus are empowered by the Holy Spirit to continue the ministry of Jesus in the world. This includes proclaiming the Gospel, making disciples, praying for the sick, ministering freedom to the oppressed, caring for the poor and marginalized, practicing forgiveness and reconciliation, demonstrating compassion, confronting injustice, and living lives that reflect the character of Jesus.

The Kingdom is therefore not merely something we talk about or wait for. It is a reality we are called to seek, embody, proclaim, and demonstrate.

We do not believe we bring the Kingdom through our own strength, programs, personalities, or abilities. We participate in what God is doing through dependence upon the Holy Spirit and obedience to Jesus.

Healing, Deliverance, and the Kingdom

We believe healing and deliverance are signs of God's Kingdom breaking into the present age.

Throughout the Gospels, Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom and demonstrated its reality through healing, deliverance, restoration, and freedom. When Jesus sent His disciples, He commissioned them to proclaim the Kingdom and participate in this same ministry.

For this reason, we continue to pray boldly and expectantly for healing, freedom, and the supernatural work of God today.

At the same time, we humbly acknowledge that we do not understand everything we encounter. We refuse to turn unanswered questions into doctrines that contradict the goodness and character of God, and we refuse to blame those who are suffering when the outcome of prayer is not what we desired.

We are comfortable acknowledging mystery while continuing to pray and minister with faith and expectation.

The Kingdom Is More Than Manifestations

While we believe in and welcome the supernatural activity of God, the Kingdom of God cannot be reduced to miracles, manifestations, or spiritual experiences.

Where God's reign is embraced, we should increasingly see the character of His Kingdom: love, righteousness, mercy, justice, generosity, forgiveness, reconciliation, holiness, humility, compassion, and care for others.

The same Holy Spirit who gives supernatural gifts also forms the character of Christ within His people.

We therefore reject any expression of Kingdom ministry that elevates spiritual power above love, character, integrity, or Christlike living. Power and character are not competitors. Both belong to a life surrendered to Jesus and empowered by His Spirit.

The Kingdom and the Church

We believe the Church exists as a Kingdom community—a people gathered around Jesus and sent into the world to bear witness to His reign.

The Church is not itself the Kingdom of God, nor do we believe any church, ministry, movement, leader, or denomination possesses the Kingdom. The Kingdom belongs to God.

Our calling is to faithfully participate in what He is doing.

Therefore, our goal is not to build our own reputation or institution, but to see people encounter Jesus, experience transformation, grow as His disciples, and participate in God's restoring work in the world.

We desire to proclaim the Gospel in both word and deed, believing that the good news of Jesus affects the whole person and ultimately points toward God's purpose to make all things new.

Our Posture

We seek to live with obedient expectancy—taking seriously both the promises of Scripture and our dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

We will not manufacture spiritual experiences to prove that the Kingdom is present, nor will we dismiss the supernatural because it makes us uncomfortable.

We will not allow unanswered questions to become excuses for unbelief, and we will not pretend to possess answers Scripture has not given us.

We desire to remain biblically grounded, centered on Jesus, dependent upon the Holy Spirit, expectant for God's activity, humble about what we do not understand, and faithful in participating in His Kingdom mission.

The Kingdom of God is present among us, its fullness is still coming, and until Christ returns, we will continue to pray as Jesus taught us:

“Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
— Matthew 6:10

Our understanding of the Kingdom naturally shapes our openness to the present work of the Holy Spirit. For a fuller explanation of how Oasis Church understands and practices spiritual gifts, prophecy, healing, tongues, and Spirit-empowered ministry, see our Statement on the Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts below.

Our Conviction

Oasis Church is a continuationist church. We believe that the Holy Spirit is actively at work in and through the Church today and that the gifts of the Holy Spirit described in the New Testament have not ceased. We believe these gifts remain available to believers according to the will and work of the Holy Spirit for the strengthening of the Church, the advancement of the Gospel, and the glory of Jesus Christ.

We believe the Holy Spirit empowers believers for Christian life and ministry. We welcome and encourage the biblical operation of spiritual gifts, including prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues, healing, miracles, words of wisdom, words of knowledge, discernment, faith, and the other gifts described in Scripture.

Scripture, Jesus, and the Work of the Spirit

Our pursuit of the Holy Spirit is grounded in Scripture and centered on Jesus Christ. We do not believe that openness to the supernatural requires abandoning biblical discernment, wisdom, order, or accountability. Scripture remains our authoritative standard for evaluating doctrine, teaching, spiritual experiences, prophetic words, and the exercise of spiritual gifts.

“We seek neither to suppress the work of the Holy Spirit nor to manufacture spiritual experiences.”

We believe spiritual gifts should operate in the manner taught in Scripture: for the building up of the Church, motivated by love, and exercised with humility and order. We desire to make room for what God is doing while also testing and discerning what occurs.

Prophecy and Spiritual Guidance

We believe God still speaks and that the Holy Spirit may give prophetic words, impressions, dreams, visions, words of knowledge, and other forms of spiritual guidance. Such revelation does not add to, replace, contradict, or carry the authority of Scripture. Prophetic ministry should be weighed and tested, and those who minister prophetically should do so humbly rather than presenting their words as unquestionable.

Healing and Miracles

We believe God still heals and performs miracles. We pray expectantly for healing and desire to see every person healed. At the same time, we humbly acknowledge that we do not know everything and cannot see or fully understand all that may be taking place in the spiritual realm. Therefore, we do not claim to have a complete explanation for why some people experience healing while others do not.

We refuse to build doctrine from what we do not understand in a way that contradicts the revealed goodness and character of God. We are comfortable acknowledging mystery where Scripture does not give us a complete explanation, recognizing the limitations of our natural understanding. When healing does not occur, we continue to trust God's goodness, continue to pray, and continue to pursue healing without condemnation or blame toward the person receiving prayer.

Tongues

We believe the gift of tongues continues today, both in personal prayer and, when accompanied by interpretation and exercised according to Scripture, in gathered worship. We do not believe speaking in tongues is required as evidence that a person is saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, or spiritually mature.

Power and Character

We believe the Holy Spirit produces both power and character. The gifts of the Spirit should never be separated from the fruit of the Spirit. Spiritual manifestations, giftedness, charisma, or supernatural experiences are not substitutes for love, holiness, humility, wisdom, integrity, or Christlike character.

Our Posture

Oasis Church seeks a biblically grounded and spiritually open expression of charismatic Christianity. We are not interested in pursuing manifestations for their own sake, sensationalism, spiritual pressure, manipulation, or creating an atmosphere in which people feel required to have a particular experience. Neither do we want fear, tradition, or discomfort to cause us to reject something simply because it is supernatural.

Our desire is simple: to remain faithful to Scripture, centered on Jesus, and genuinely open to everything the Holy Spirit desires to do.