What We Believe

Regarding our statement of beliefs, we like to keep things very simple. What we believe has to be understandable and applicable to daily life. The statements below are simple expressions of what we believe at Kanisa Fellowship.

What We Believe About God

We believe that God is love. He is triune and found in the personhood of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. God is perfect, never sinning, infinite, forgiving and always with us.

Trinity

The Christian Godhead is one God represented in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever-present.

Father

The Father is the head of the triune God. We believe He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to save us from our sins and to reveal Himself to us. God is the eternal source of all love and all life.

Son

Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He became a human being to save us from the penalty of sin. He is our teacher, advocate and redeemer. He gives us a chance to learn from our mistakes and to prepare for heaven. Jesus willingly came to earth from heaven to serve as the sacrificial atonement that God required for the forgiveness of our sins.

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is the third person of the triune God, convicting, leading, and guiding our understanding of God’s commands, bringing encouragement in times of discouragement, and leading us in a righteous and holy lifestyle. We believe the Holy Spirit was active with the Father and Son in creation, incarnation, and redemption. The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of the Bible.

What We Believe About Our Humanity

Crafted by the hand of God, humanity and creation scream the glories of a magnificent Creator.

It’s beautiful. Yet the beauty is broken.

At Kanisa, we believe Genesis tells us the story of creation. From the word of God’s mouth, creation bloomed into existence. The world, night, day, and humanity were formed. It was beautiful, very beautiful, but something went wrong. Humanity chose sin over God. With one simple act of disobedience, humanity sinned and caused a divide between their relationship and a Holy God.

Creation

God has carefully created the world and humanity with meticulous focus and intentionality. He did so out of passion. From the largest stars and planets of the solar system, the oceans and land, to the smallest molecular structures of plants and animals, God breathed life through all these things with love.

Nature of Man

Designed and made in the image of God, men and women are now fractured by sin. God has chosen to reconcile us through His son Jesus Christ, drawing us back to Himself through His Holy Spirit and making us more like His image every day.

Humans are individually granted the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind and spirit, dependent upon God for life, breath and everything else.

What We Believe About Your Salvation

Though fractured and torn, love has made its way. Willingly and sacrificially, this is what love does. This is what love is.

At Kanisa Fellowship, we believe that a sacrifice must bring humanity back into a relationship with its creator because of the brokenness and distance created by sin between humanity and God. Then descended Jesus, the willing servant who laid down His life by dying on the cross. That blessed act took away our pain, sorrow, brokenness, and sin and served as the ultimate sacrifice for the purpose of reconciliation back to God.

The Fight for Your Life

There is a battle for your soul. On one side stands Satan, the untrustworthy accuser. On the other side stands Jesus, the healer. Throughout history, the world has experienced the great controversy of good vs. evil. God gives us free will to choose.

The Gospel

God sent His son Jesus to live the perfect life we couldn’t live and die the death that we deserve. Because of Christ’s sacrifice, God no longer sees all as prodigal children with no hope of reconciliation. God now sees His followers as adopted sons and daughters, partaking in the same inheritance as His son Jesus. When we accept Jesus’ sacrifice, we claim the gift of eternal life in heaven.

The Experience of Salvation

God uses the Holy Spirit to draw us to Himself. Understanding our sin and brokenness, we encounter the story of Jesus. Moved by his sacrifice for our sins and desire for a relationship, we accept God’s grace that He so willingly offers us through His son. This new grace bestowed upon us by the blood of His son Jesus has now made us in the right standing with the Father.

Growing As a Believer in Christ

Salvation completely changes the way we look at the world around us and how we make decisions. Now, we longer look to the satisfaction of our flesh and selves, but we look to the satisfaction of our God. However, these are not merely decisions based on duty but rather on a deep love for God and His constant guiding of the Holy Spirit to make us more and more into the image of God.

What We Believe About The Church

Like the human body with many forms and functions, the church collectively works together to be the tangible representation of God’s redemption plan for all humanity.

We believe that God inhabits. Not only does God move, create, and heal on His own, but He has also established His church as a fully functioning body to bring about reconciliation, encouragement, healing, assistance, and forgiveness to both the believer and unbeliever.

The Church

The church is the local body of Christ. Established as the overall collection of believers, the purpose of the church is to serve the believer in mind, body, and spirit, as well as the unbeliever through love and giving.

The Remnant and Its Mission

At the end of time, God will call His people back to core truths. While declaring Jesus’ soon return, the remnant will profess that God is the creator, the reality of the heavenly judgment, and the danger of spiritual compromise.

Unity in the Body of Christ

Throughout the Bible, Scripture uses the illustration of the human body as a picture of the body of Christ. As many members of the human body have different shapes, forms and functions, but all a part of the same body, so does the different members of the church.

The church is eclectic in colour, socio-economic status, and gifts. Some have the purpose of teaching and some hospitality. Some have the purpose of prophesying, while others may have the purpose of leading worship.

All body members work harmoniously together to advance the mission of the kingdom of God.

Baptism

Baptism symbolizes our death to our old selves and the rising to a new life as our new selves. Buried under the water, we show the world we are dying to our old selves. Rising out of the water, we testify to the good news of God’s grace and an outward expression of our renewed life found in Christ Jesus.

The Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper, also called communion, symbolizes our acceptance of the body and blood of Jesus, spilled out for our sins by His death on the cross. Searching our hearts, we wash one another’s feet, remembering Jesus’ example of love and selfless service.

Spiritual Gifts and Ministries

From the arts to greeting and teaching to administration, the Holy Spirit has gifted all in the body of Christ with certain skill sets that can offer the purpose of God’s glory and the larger mission of the Church.

The Gift of Prophecy

The Holy Spirit also empowers His people with the gift of prophecy – the ability to hear from God and share that message about what will happen. One great example of an individual with this gift was Ellen G. White, a founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.