Statement of Faith

Statement of Faith

  • The programs and activities governing the ministry, membership, and employment of George and Ruth Ryland Ministries shall be always based upon and be consistent with the following beliefs:
    • The Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament, in their original writing, are fully inspired of God, and are therefore the supreme and final authority for life.
    • There is one eternal God, who exists in three Persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
    • God created all things and also created man in His own image and His own likeness.
    • Adam, the first man, sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin, which is death spiritual and physical; all human beings sin at the age of accountability, and are thereafter personally guilty before God.
    • Jesus Christ, is the Son of God, and was conceived, through the power of the Holy Spirit, by a virgin named Mary, and His deity and humanity are fully taught by scripture.
    • The Lord Jesus Christ made atonement for the sins of the world through the shedding of His blood, His substitutionary death, burial, bodily resurrection, ascension, and exaltation to the right hand of God.
    • All those who turn away from all false hopes of salvation or unbelief or disregard of God and believe that atonement for sins was made by the Lord Jesus Christ, confess Him as Lord and immediately demonstrate their faith, receive salvation as a present possession, having been justified by His shed blood.
    • The Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a promise for all believers, throughout the church age, and is received with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues, with the potential for the manifestation all the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit and the ministry gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
    • The Lord Jesus Christ will rapture the church and take her to heaven before the Tribulation begins. After the seven-year Tribulation the Lord will personally return to rule on the earth for a thousand years.
    • There will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust. Those who have accepted the redemption provided by God will enter the eternal blessedness of heaven. Those who have rejected the offer of salvation will be cast into hell. 
    • There is only one true universal Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, part upon the earth and the other in heaven, and it is comprised of all those who have been born again.
    • All believers should belong to a local church and submit to the authority of its leadership while endeavoring to implement the Word of God in their lives.
    • The Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances for the Church, namely, Immersion in Water and Communion, that are to be regularly observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith. 
    • The Lord Jesus Christ has a dynamic present-day ministry as Advocate, Intercessor and as High Priest over the House of God receives tithes and offerings.
    • Divine healing was fully provided for in the atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ and can be appropriated by believers under the New Covenant.
    • The Bible teaches, that without holiness, no man will see the Lord and that conformity to the will of God must commence at the time of the new birth and continue until death or the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
    • Heterosexual relationships is to be between a natural man and a natural woman within the lawful confines of one marriage. Adherence to this stated principle of sexual behaviour is an inherent requirement for membership and of employment at George and Ruth Ryland Ministries and any of its Church Associations.