Who We Are

Lively Stones Ministries is a multicultural and multigenerational Christian ministry that follows God, loves and serves people, and teaches the uncompromised Word of God. 


"Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."


- 1 Peter 2:4,5


Our Beliefs

The Bible


We believe the Bible to be the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God. It is written by human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit and applicable to our everyday lives.


God


We believe in one God eternally existing as three persons, namely, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and each person is fully God. These three Persons are distinguishable yet indivisible and of one substance. He is good, loving, righteous, holy, just, merciful, faithful, kind, and perfect. God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-present.


Jesus Christ


We believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is the only One who can reconcile us to God. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.


The Holy Spirit


We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit with His fruits and gifts available in the Church. We also believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as an experience at or subsequent to salvation and evidenced by various signs.


Sin


We believe that as a result of the fall of man into sin, people remain separated from God and unable to attain right standing with God apart from Jesus Christ. Everyone has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.


The Church


We believe the Church is a community of genuine believers with visible expressions in local congregations. Local churches are commissioned to propagate the gospel, teach God's Word, commune with one another, exercise spiritual authority, and pastor God's people into their destiny.


Salvation


We believe that salvation is a gift from God to man. Salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God's free grace and is manifested through repentance from sin and faith in Christ and His finished work on the cross. Through His work, not our own, we obtain the forgiveness of sins and are adopted in the family of God.


Baptism


We believe in water baptism by immersion which symbolizes the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus and is your public declaration that you have accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior.


Eternity


We believe in heaven and hell. Man will either exist eternally separated from God or in union with God through Christ's finished work on the cross that allows us to spend eternity with Him in heaven.