DIALOGUE OF FAITH CHURCH OF CANADA

ABOUT DIALOGUE OF FAITH CHURCH OF CANADA
 

We are a BORN AGAIN church in which hearers of the WORD get the opportunity to respond during the sermon. They may raise questions dealing with issues that the sermons inspire and thereby find the relevance of scriptural teachings to practical, Christian living. 

A dialogue is a conversation in which the speaker allows the listener an opportunity to think and to respond. In his earthly ministry, Jesus practised dialogue by receiving and responding to questions and comments from his audiences. However, in the modern Christian assembly a person daring to question a minister during the delivery of the sermon risks eviction from the sanctuary on a charge of disruptive conduct. As a consequence, thoughtful listeners unwilling to endure torrents of uncontested thoughts issuing from pulpits often resist by sitting passively in the pews and reflecting upon their own, private affairs.

Convinced that the Holy Spirit’s concern about this problem is a call to reestablish in the church the teaching methods of Jesus, the pastor Rev. Dr. Ronald Blake, in the year, 2005 founded the Dialogue of Faith Church of Canada. The ministry, located in Scarborough, Ontario has been very well received and has won many souls to Christ. We are financed by supporters’ tax deductible contributions in the form of tithes, offerings and donations from people who receive our publications.

ABOUT THE FOUNDING PASTOR

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Dr. Ronald E. A. Blake holds from the University of Guelph, Canada a first class Bachelor of Arts Honours degree with a major in sociology/anthropology and a minor in political science. He holds the distinguished level Master of Science degree in extension education and human resources development from the same institution. From the Friends International Christian University, he holds a Doctorate in religious studies.

Dr. Blake is the Author of two highly acclaimed Christian publications: Ruler in the Kingdom of Men (1991) and The Testimony of the Greater Witness (2000). His Unpublished dissertation is: The Identity of Jesus: A Socio-scientific Inquiry into the Claims of Jesus. (Regarded as a major work). It is available from him by direct request.

He is also Author of some 200 Christian sermons now in circulation, and Guest speaker, by invitation, to a wide range of established Christian churches. He holds his ordination credential from The Open Door Evangelistic Church: Ontario, Canada.

Dr. Blake is also the founder of the 32 year old Higher Marks Educational Institute Inc, one of Canada’s most respected institutes of educational intervention, and winner of numerous professional awards.

- Dr. Ronald and Fay Blake

 

A.1 The Holy Scriptures

We recognize all the books, of both the Old and New Testaments, as Canonical and none others of which there has been and is not now any doubt in the true church of God. We declare their inspiration to be of the Holy Ghost and neither Testament to be superior to the other in this respect. These books constitute and are the very word of God, infallible in their originals, perfect in their design and containing all that men need to believe or practice as necessary to salvation. We believe and do declare that holy men of old were inspired by the Holy Ghost to write the truths contained therein.

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A.2 The Being of God

We believe there is one, ever-living and true God, a personal Being: one being existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. This Divine being is not three Gods in one. He is one God in three. We reject as of the devil all doctrines that teach pantheistic, impersonal or fatalistic notions of God, or of God as a mere force of blind power. The three persons of the Godhead are of one substance, eternity and power; and their trinity in unity has been and will be eternal. This God is our God, steadfast and faithful, of spiritual character, Invisible to mortal eye, but seen by faith, full of all perfection and of infinite power, presence, knowledge, wisdom, purity, justice and love.

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A.3 The God-Man, Christ Jesus

Jesus Christ is the Son of God and became man by the Begetting of the Holy Ghost and by being born of the Virgin Mary. In this conception, birth and life, God-head and humanity two individual and perfect natures were united to one person. These natures became and continue indivisible: and thereby is the one true Christ, very God and very Man, who lives and reigns forever. This same Christ suffered, was, truly died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried and rose again from the dead. In this experience He reconciled His Father to the world as the representative sacrifice of the Father for sin: and He also reconciled the world to the Father as the vicarious offering of humanity for sin, both original and committed. He thus made peace between man and God, and so gave to us who believe on Him, a true heart and faith unfeigned, an eternal guarantee of our justification, regeneration, sanctification, preservation, resurrection and glorification. This same Christ, in truly rising from the dead, took again His human body, transforming it into glorified perfection in all its nature and elements. He ascended into the Heavenly places where He abides as our sufficient and only High Priest and Advocate, at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, making intercession for us continually. The same Christ is coming the second time without sin unto salvation. At this coming He will awaken the sleeping bodies of deceased saints and glorify them as the temples of their immortal spirits, and He will then translate His faithful saints, then living on earth. His coming in judgment will be visible and universally apparent. He will reign a thousand years on this earth in person. He will judge and rule the nations. He will banish Satan, judge all men, renew heaven and earth and present the redeemed creation to His Father. We do not dogmatize as to times and seasons, but the signs of the times show the imminent fulfillment of the Christian’s blessed hope of His soon return.

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A.4 The Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit, the third person of the blessed Trinity, proceeds from the Father and Son. He teaches, warns, inspires, comforts, reproves, influences and persuades human beings in the things of God. He is the very energy and vitality of the Godhead. He regenerates, sanctifies, sustains and resurrects the spirits and bodies of those whom the Trinity, elect as their own. He is eternal and of one substance authority and operation with the Father and the Son.

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A.5 Sin

God created man perfect, after His own divine image and likeness. Nevertheless, man fell by self-chosen disobedience to God’s will and an express transgression of divine law. This is the original act of sin. By this principle of inbred sin, carnality and depravity became fully imbedded in the human constitution, so that both spiritual and physical death ensued. This principle of sin is Federal in origin and universal in inheritance and tendency. Those are to be rejected as mockers of God’s truth who teach that sin is a mere defect in man’s evolving nature, to be outgrown, suppressed or educated away from his character and habits. Sin is an inward eruption that is engendered in every child of Adam, so that human beings, of themselves, are totally depraved and utterly destitute of original righteousness and of their own nature impotent and inclined to do evil continually. Sin does not destroy free-will anymore than it removes intelligence, for men by wisdom cannot find God. The Holy Spirit must move upon the hearts of men to draw them away from the corrupt inclinations of their unregenerate hearts and assist them to turn from sin unto the living God.

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A.6 Repentance and Its Fruits

All who yield to the wooing of God’s Spirit and genuinely repent of their sins, making restitution where possible and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, are pardoned and adopted by the Father, being justified freely by the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ the Son, and are regenerated by the Holy Ghost, being thus born from above and so becoming the children of the living God, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.

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A.7. Immortality

The human soul is immortal by the creation of God, and sin did not destroy that quality of its eternal nature. Both the just and the unjust are resurrected by the power of God, each in their own time as God has revealed in His word. All human beings live forever after physical death; some in a real place prepared for the devil and his angels, a literal hell, which shall be enveloped in the lake of fire and brimstone, a quenchless torment, the second death; some in Paradise or Heaven, a literal abode which shall become their entrance into eternal joy.

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A.8.Ordinances

We recognize two Ordinances as taught in the Word of God. One of these is the Lords Supper instituted by Christ at the time of the Passover; the other is that of Christian Baptism according to the command of our Lord. Baptism by immersion will be recommended although not insisted upon as a requisite for membership.

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A.9. Dedication of Children

We believe parents should present their children unto the Lord, to whom they belong, in a service of dedication, at as early a date as convenient after their birth

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A.10. Summary

The above ARTICLES cover in brief the Statements of faith of the Dialogue of Faith Church of Canada which, according to the Charter, cannot be annulled, modified or changed except to be added to from time to time as need may arise.

 

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