Our
Beliefs: Biblical Basis
Rice BowlsTM Beliefs have been prayerfully derived from Biblical teaching, including the following Scriptures.
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All verses from the New International Version (NIV)
translation.
We believe salvation occurs as the Holy Spirit
persuades man to receive Christ and empowers him to honor God through obedience
and service.
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and
righteousness and judgment. – John 16:8
For the Holy
Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say. – Luke 12:12
You, however, are
controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God
lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not
belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin,
yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who
raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead
will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.
In the same way, the
Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but
the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And
he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will. – Romans 8:9-11, 26,
27
Now to each one the
manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given
through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge
by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another
gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another
prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different
kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these
are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as
he determines. – I Corinthians 12:7-11
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