JSM VISION

Joël Spinks Ministries is a federally recognized, non-profit, charitable organization whose mission is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and to build faith across Canada and beyond.

Joël & Mathilde Spinks, President

JSM HISTORICAL MAP

JSM STATEMENT OF FAITH

Article I - The Scriptures

We believe in the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God. We believe that the Holy Spirit not only inspired the thoughts of the writers, but also formulated the very word structure into which the thoughts were cast with the result that the original documents were inerrant as to fact and infallible as to truth. (II Tim. 3:16-17; II Pet. 1:20-21)

Article II - The Godhead

We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. (Deut. 6:4; II Cor. 13:14)

Article III - Man's Creation and Fall

We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but through Adam's sin became alienated from God, acquired a sin nature, and came under the judicial sentence of death (Gen. 1-25-27; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12-21; Eph. 2:1-3, 12).

Article IV - The Person And Work Of Jesus Christ

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son Of God, became a man, without ceasing to be God. We believe that He was a sinless man, was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, so that He could reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished: mighty miracles, our redemption through His death on the tree as a propitiatory and substitutionary sacrifice, and that our redemption is made sure to us by His resurrection from the dead in the same, though glorified, body in which He was crucified (John 1:1-2; Luke 1:35; Rom. 3:24-25; 1 Pet. 1:3-5). We believe that the redemptive work of Jesus Christ provided healing of the human body in answer to believing prayer. (Isa. 53:5)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven exalted at the right hand of God where, as High Priest for His people, He fulfills the ministry of Baptizer in the Holy Spirit, Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Heb. 9:24, 7:25; Rom. 8:34; 1 John 2:1-2, Luke 3:16).

We believe in the premillenial return of our Lord Jesus Christ and in His kingdom reign upon the earth (1 Thess. 4:13-18; Zech.14:4-11; Rev.20:6).

Article V - The Holy Spirit

We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity, in the present age, regenerates, indwells all believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, baptizes them into the body of Christ and seals them unto the day of redemption, and we believe that every believer is commanded to be filled with the Holy Spirit (Rom. 12:2, 2 Cor. 5:17, Rom.8:9; 1 Cor. 12:12-14; Eph.1:13-14, 5:18-20). We believe that in this present age we "come short in no gift" (1 Cor. 1:7) of the Spirit as described in 1 Corinthians 12 (word of wisdom, word of knowledge, gift of faith, gifts of healings, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues) until the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Article VI - Salvation

We believe that salvation is the gift of God offered to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this faith is manifested in works pleasing to God (Eph. 2:8-10; Tit. 2:11-14)

We believe that the Christian is sealed of the Holy Spirit and belongs to God. We believe that the Christian perseveres till the end and that his security does not give him a license to sin. (Matt. 10:22; Eph. 1:13-14; Rom. 8:1-2; John 10:28; 1 Cor. 1:8; Phil. 1:6; II Tim. 1:12). We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy life.

Article VII - The Church

We believe that the church is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons in this age (Eph. 1:22-23, 5:25-27; 1 Cor. 12:12-14).

Article VIII - The Final State

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the one to everlasting life and the other to everlasting damnation. (Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 20:15, 22:3-5, 11).

Unanimously accepted on 27/08/00 as the official doctrinal statement of JSM, a non-profit organization.