 1. God superiority is in all and He has full domination in the life of believers
God is the reason of all existing. "For in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28). In Him there is fullness of life, love and light. He possesses absolute authority in all Universes. Everything in Universes accomplishes by His good and perfect will.
Ourselves, our time, our finance, property all belong to Him. He is the perfect Lord of all. He is Lord of all lords; He is King of all kings. He possesses our love, glory, honour, worship. He possesses a superiority always and in all! The greatest purpose of Christians is to glorify God in all areas of their life. It means full submission to Him in all and it should be shown in a sacred life (Proverbs 134:6, 23:1, 21:29, 102:19, Colossians 1:16-18, Romans 11:33-36).
2. Christ is in the centre
God opened himself in the Son, and expressed through Him His love to people. Jesus Christ through ransom of our sins reconciled us with God. He possesses all authority in the haven and on the earth. His is above all - the Head of the Church. Through Him there is beginning of life, and He is the true God and eternal life. He is our Savoir; He is the Chief and Maker of the faith. Grace and truth belong to Him. In Him there is the solution of human problems and questions. Christ is the centre of our life, service, sermon, doctrine. We approve the Gospel with Christ in the centre, not the person. It means Gospel of Christ in the centre. “For him and through him and to him are all things” (Romans 11:36).
3. Relationships
The triune God is God of relations. The man was created by the image of God; therefore relations are man’s destination and need. The man always required, requires and will require relations with Creator and Lord and with equal to man. The foundation for human relationship is God’s attitude to his children which is shown in unconditional love and acceptance.
We are called to build relation with each other, in a family, in a church, and in a society bases on unconditional love, acceptance and trust. "Therefore accept each other, as well as the Christ has accepted you in God’s glory" (Romans 15:7). Love and faith (trust) are keywords in the relations field. Love shows that we give ourselves, ours to others, faith shows that we are subordinate; we need God and each other. Christ reached us through relation with us. He brought us in his Kingdom of relationship, thus our greatest mission is to build relations. We are called to present Christ to the people and the best way to give Gospel to the world is relations. The measure of the Christian spiritual maturity is a skill (ability, competence) to build relationships (1 John 4:7, 10-11, 3:10, 2:9-11, Hebrews 11:6, John 13: 34, 17:21-23).
4. The great commission
"All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with always, to the very end of the age" (Matthew 28:18-20). This commandment of Jesus Christ, His testament for disciples concerns all believers of all times. Our task is to build relations with people, to tell them Good News, baptize them and teach God’s kingdom principles.
Our goal is to give missionary vision for the children of God. Each church, each believer is called to participate in realization of the Great Commission and use for it own spiritual gifts. God’s children can do this through pray, financing and personal dedication on missionary work. Each church trains his members in it, holds missionary conferences, prepares missionaries, takes part in a missionary financial fund, and arranges evangelistic events in his district.
5. Grace
God’s Grace is the basis and guarantor of our salvation, life and stay in holiness with Jesus Christ. This was offered for us through Jesus Christ. We receive grace after the birth from above and it accompanies us whole life up to the eternity "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9).
God’s grace is exclusively His initiative, act of His sovereign divine will (John 3:16). Nobody can ever take away Grace from the man saved by God. "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demos, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord " (Romans 8:38-39) The feature of divine grace acceptance is life with God’s obedience, consecration, going in Holy Spirit (Titus 2:11-12).
6. Active civil side (attitude)
As we know that God cares of all people because of his mercy and longsuffering " ruling over the sun to ascend above malicious and kind and sending a rain on just and not just " (Matthew 5:45, Acts 14:16-17) we are convinced, that our mission is to be actively engaged in all forms of human legal activity, guided by Christian system values and world vision, to execute cultural mission which concerns all areas of life including world management (Genesis 1:28-30).
The purpose of it is to glorify God, to serve for a society and neighbour, to dilate Christ fragrance on any place among all social layers (1Peter 2:11-12, 15-16, 2 Corinthians 2:4-16). To be motivated for the active civil Christian attitude we need: firstly, God’s love which induces us to be merciful, both to the believers and non-believers, to do kindness through service for people needs (Ephesians 2:10, 2 Thessalonians 3:13, Galatians 6:10). Secondly, our position in Christ as kingly priesthood. Any authority in the haven and on the earth belongs to Him, so He is the true King who rules this world. He made us kings and priests to our God, and commended us to pray for the leaders’ people, for nation, cities and villages in which we live, and for our country, and to care his well-being (Ephesians 1:21-22, 1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 5:10, Jeremiah 29:7, 1 Timothy 2:1-4).
7. Priesthood of all believers
The principle of commune priesthood is a foundation of New Testament doctrines concerning church and its servants. It means absolutely equal position for all members of independent local churches before Lord. This principle guarantees them voluntary and equal relations with each other (Matthew 23:8-12).
We believe all believers are divine priests; therefore church servants cannot possess special priesthood authority. Some differences appear only in church ministries we do and its form corresponding rights and duties. The high advantage and the most sacred duty of all believers in Jesus Christ as a personal Savoir consists in their right and responsibility to pray and educate the perishing world with light of the Gospel (Revelation 1:6, 5610, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Timothy 2:1-4).
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