Our Church
What We Believe
Welcome to God’s House of
Prayer church in Second Life, a virtual reality. God’s House of
Prayer is a church where Christ is the head. We are a Bible
believing fellowship of Christians who not only worship but serve
our Lord in all ways. God’s House of Prayer is place for individuals
from all walks of life to come in and praise the lord in their own
manner. The church is
accessible 24/7 to provide a safe haven for those that need to
escape and spend some quiet time with God. God’s House of Prayer is
provided as a FREE place to be for those who wish to worship,
fellowship, pray together!
Our Purpose: "Spreading
the Good News of the Gospel throughout the world!"
We Believe
There is only one God in
three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit). (Gen. 1:1, Matt. 28:19,
John 10:30)
Jesus Christ was begotten
of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary.
(Philippians 2:6-11, John 1:1, 14, John 3:13, 16, John 14:6)
The Holy Spirit is the
third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit convicts the world of
sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He is the life of the
believer, and He empowers the preaching, teaching and understanding
of the Gospel. (John 16:7-14, Genesis 1:2, Acts 2:1-4, 2 Peter 1:21)
Man was created in the
image of God, that he sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical
death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that
all human beings are born with a sinful nature and those who reach
moral responsibility are sinners in thought, word, and deed. (I
Corinthians 15:22, I Corinthians 2:14, Romans 5:12, 14, 17, Romans
6:23)
Salvation is from the Lord
Jesus Christ who died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a
representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who
believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. (I
John 4:10, I John 2:2, Romans 6:3, I Peter 1:18, 19, Matthew 20:28 )
That Jesus conquered
death, and in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord,
His ascension into Heaven and His present life there as High Priest
and Advocate for us. (I Peter 2:5, I Corinthians 15:4, Hebrews 1:3,
Acts 1:9)
That all who receive by
faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and
thereby they become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
(Ephesians 4:30, Philippians 1:6 , Romans 8:31-39 , I Peter 1:15, I
John 5:6, John 10:28 )
That Heaven and Hell are
real places of eternal existence. We will either live forever in
Heaven with God, through forgiveness and salvation, or forever
suffering in Hell, separated from God by sin. (Matthew 16:27; Mark
14:62; John 14:3; Acts 1:11; Philippians 3:20; 1 Thessalonians 4:15;
2 Timothy 4:1; Titus 2:13; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 15; 2 Thessalonians
1:7-10; Revelation 20:4-6, 11-15)
The Lord Jesus Christ
commanded two ordinances to the local church; baptism and the Lord’s
Supper. Christian baptism is the immersion of the believer in water,
which is a public testimony of the believer’s new life in Christ.
The Lord’s Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His
death. The elements of communion are symbolic of the body and blood
of Jesus Christ. These two ordinances should be observed and
administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew
28:18-20; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)
This means you must find and participate in a real life
church where your fellowship can grow as Christ commanded in the
physical presence of other believers.
God’s House of Prayer’
purpose is to use the internet and virtual worlds to spread the Good
News of the Gospel to every corner of the Earth! We accomplish this
by:
Worshiping our God in
services available to the entire world in a virtual setting and by
Internet access
Loving others as ourselves so that we are ambassadors of our Lord Jesus and examples of Christ
Serving our God in all
ways giving Him the glory in all things
Inviting others to worship
with us and actively teach the Bible to them
This is our purpose, our
strategy and our invitation for you to be a part of this Ministry.
We may be a virtual church
but we are also a real church (501c3) headed by a real life Pastor.
Many organizations are guilty of making things complicated
and lives cluttered. The Pharisees developed a religious system of
over 600 laws. Jesus came and made the complex simple. One of the
Pharisees asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment of all; that
is, out of all the laws, which one was supreme. Jesus then gave us
the greatest commandment of all by referring to Deuteronomy 6:5;
10:12; 30:6.
“Then one of them (a
Pharisee), a lawyer, asked Him a question testing Him, and saying
‘Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?’
Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the
first and great commandment.’” (Matthew 22:35-38)
Jesus not only answered
his question identifying the greatest commandment of all, but He
then offered the second greatest commandment of all.
“And the second is like
it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two
commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:39-40)
The greatest and second
greatest commandments form the first two parts of our church’s
purpose of Worshiping our God and loving others. The third part of
our goal; to serve our God, comes from 1 Peter 4:10. “As each one
has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of
the manifold grace of God.” (1 Peter 4:10)
God has endowed each born
again believer with unique spiritual gifts to be exercised for the
building up of others within the Body of Christ.
We want to put these to work on a worldwide level.
The last part of our
church’s goal: Inviting others to worship and learn through active
Bible teaching, comes from the Great Commission that Jesus gave His
disciples before He ascended back to His Father.
“And Jesus came and spoke
to them, saying, ‘All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have
commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the
age. Amen.’” (Matthew 28:18-20)
We want every believer
here at God’s House of Prayer to Worship God, Love Others, Serve
God, and Invite others to worship and attend classes. We want to
encourage you to help us accomplish our purposes through an
involvement that is practical and tangible.
Question: Are you truly
being transformed by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
Christ? Are you truly being conformed into the very image of Jesus
Christ? We believe that worshiping God, loving others, serving God,
and inviting others, will develop you into the mature believers that
God would have you be!
Many churches are full of
activity but devoid of accomplishment. We want our activity to move
us toward what we are trying to accomplish— bringing the message of
the Gospel to all those around the world seeking freedom from
Satan’s clutches! Churches are floundering and Christians are anemic
because they have focused on moral flexibility and fleshly
fellowship instead of practicing a sound biblical process for
growing believers and presenting the faithful message. To fulfill
our goals we will not arbitrarily ban lost people but embrace them,
we forgive and love them – even when we hate their sin. We will
teach the pure truth of the Bible and not try and reinterpret it to
fit our society. We will
teach you the truth because we love you!
You are invited to worship with us – take an active role and
study the Bible – grow and learn about a new life and better life
which Jesus has provided those that will believe in Him.