Doctrines
Most UCKG doctrines are the same as most conservative Evangelical-Pentecostal doctrines. Nevertheless the church openly identifies itself with the Prosperity Theology. Specific doctrines include belief:
- That the baptism of the Holy Spirit empowers believers for service and endows them with supernatural gifts.
- That ministries of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher are divinely ordained.
- That Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances to be observed as acts of obedience:
- immersion of the believer in water (baptism)
- the Lord's Supper, symbolic of consuming the body and blood of Jesus, in remembrance of his sacrifice and in the expectation that he will return.
- In divine healing as described in the Christian Bible
- That people can be sanctified (become holy) during their lifetime.
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