What Compels Us – One Church Lakewood

Our Mission

K2 = To Know Christ and Make Him Known
Our Vision

To make our community as it is in Heaven. We envision a community where…

The name and power of Jesus is exalted and on display

Our church becomes a beacon of light and hope in presence and in function

The community is transformed

There is service to the underserved

Unity among the ethnicities
Our Values

Bible

This is our playbook!!! Our goal is to know and understand God’s ways so clearly that it only makes sense to live in line with them.

Evangelism

We talk about Jesus… in our songs, at our services, with our words, and with our lives. Our desire is to share Jesus in a way people can understand.

Love

We love people… all of them! Backgrounds, shapes, colors, sizes, incomes, education, single, married, young, old, gay, straight, male, female, Christian, or not.

Innovation/Creativity

We challenge people to rethink Church and we want to use relevant and modern methods of outreach and express Christ through culture.

Excellence

We want to use our passions, gifts, talents, and skills to create amazing experiences that transform lives and make God smile.

Fellowship

Our desire is that some of your strongest and closest relationships would exist here at ONE Church. Why?… Because if God is our Father that makes all of us family.
Our Cultural Distinctives
Our Beliefs

The Holy Trinity

We believe in the Holy Trinity consisting of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, three persons co-equal and co-eternal, having the same nature and attributes and worthy of precisely the same worship, confidence, and obedience (John 14:16; 2 Cor. 13:14; Matt. 3:16, 17; 1 Pet. 1:2).

The Father

We believe in God the Father, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal and immutable; full of love, justice, goodness, mercy, and truth (Eph. 4:6; Eph. 2:18).

The Son

We believe in God the Son, Jesus Christ our only Savior, full of grace and truth, by whom all things were made, who is the image of God in whom all the fullness of the God-head dwells in bodily form (Col. 1:14- 19; John 1:1-3; Acts. 4:12). We believe in His deity (John 1:1); humanity (John 1:14); virgin birth (Matt. 1:18-20); death (John 19:33,34); burial (Matt. 27:57-60); bodily resurrection (Matt. 38:6,7); ascension (Acts 1:9); advocacy (1 John 2:1; Heb. 7:25); exaltation (Heb. 1:3); and coming again (1 Thess. 4:16,17).

The Holy Spirit

We believe in God the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, whom the Father sent into the world to reprove it of sin, righteousness, and judgment and to testify of Jesus Christ (John 16:714) who is the source and power of all acceptable worship and service, the infallible interpreter of the infallible word, who indwells every true believer to guide him in grace and truth (Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13,14).

The Scriptures

We believe that the Scriptures both Old and New Testaments, as originally written, are verbally inspired of God without any admixture of error in their substance and that they were written by holy men of God who spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit and they are final in authority in all matters of conduct and doctrine (2 Tim. 3:16,17; 2 Peter 1:21).

Sin and The Fall

We believe that man was created in the image of God, after His likeness, and that man (through his own choice at the temptation of Satan) sinned and thus alienated himself and all the human race from God (Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:1-7; Rom. 3:23; Rom. 5:18). We believe that the wages of sin is death and that man is totally unable to save himself (Rom. 6:23; Titus 3:5).

Salvation

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified by His shed blood and that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become the children of God (Titus 3:5,6; John 1:12; John 1:29; Heb. 9:13-15; 1 Peter 1:18,19).

Resurrection

We believe in the resurrection of the dead. The righteous dead shall be raised at the appearance of Christ (1 Thess. 4:13-18; Rev. 20:4-6); but
the wicked dead shall not be raised until after the millennium and then face the judgment of the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11-15).

The Church

We believe that the Church is the primary instrument through which the triune God is fulfilling His redemptive purposes in the earth. The Church universal is made up of those throughout the earth, both living and dead, who have become genuine followers of Jesus. A visible church is a congregation of baptized believers, associated through covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. God calls sinful men and women to live as the new covenant community. The Church demonstrates the reality of God’s kingdom through the proclamation of the gospel, pastoral care and leadership, and ministry to the poor and marginalized through sacrificial giving and practical service (Isaiah 58:6-12; 61:1; Matthew 16:17-19, 28:18-20; Acts 2:42-47; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31; Galatians 2:10; Ephesians 1:22-23, 3:7-21, 4:11- 16; Hebrews 10:23-25; 1 Peter 2:4-5, 9-10).

The Ordinances

We believe that water baptism and the communion are the two ordinances of the Church to be observed until Christ’s return. They are a means of God’s sanctifying grace and blessing to the faithful in Christ Jesus. The ordinances are reserved for those who consciously place their faith in Jesus for their righteousness and become His disciples (Matthew 26:26-29; Romans 6: 3-11; 1 Corinthians 11: 2324; 1 Peter