Our Beliefs
The Olive Branch church is a non-denominational church that welcomes all races and cultures.
OBC is not church as usual. We believe in the whole truth of God's word!
We believe in the whole truth of God's word.
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, a revelation from God to man, the infallible rule of faith and conduct, and is superior to conscience and reason, but not contrary to reason. (II Tim. 3:15-16; I Pet. 2:2)
Man was created good and upright, for God
God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness." But man, by voluntary transgression, fell, and his only hope of redemption is in Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (Gen. 1:26-31; 3:1-7; Rom 5:12-21)
The Salvation of Man through Faith
By repenting and confessing with your mouth and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and God raised Him from the dead you will be saved. (Rom 10:9-13)
The Holy Spirit
All believers are entitled to, and should ardently expect, and earnestly seek, the promise of the Father, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian church. With it comes the endowment of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry. (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4; 1:8, I Cor. 12:1-31) This wonderful experience is distinct from and subsequent to the experience of the new birth. (Acts 10:44-46; 11:14-16; 15:7-9)
We believe in the One true God
Who has revealed Himself as the eternally self-existent, self-revealed "I Am " and has further revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association, i.e., Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. (Deut. 6:4; Mark 12:29; Isaiah 43:10; Matt. 28:19)
The Blessed Hope
The resurrection of those who have fallen asleep in Christ and their translation, together with those who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, is the imminent and blessed hope of the church. (I Thess. 4:15-16; Titus 2:13; I Cor. 15-51-52; Rom 8:23)
The Lord's Supper
Consisting of the elements, bread and the fruit of the vine, is the symbol expressing our sharing of His sharing of His suffering and death, and a prophecy of His second coming, and is enjoined on all believers "until He comes". (I Cor. 11:23-26)
The Ordinance of Baptism
By a burial with Christ should be observed as commanded in the scriptures, by all who have really repented and in their hearts have truly believed in Christ as Savior and Lord. In so doing, they have the body washed in water as an outward symbol of cleansing, while their heart has already been sprinkled with the Blood of Christ as an inner cleansing. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Jesus and that they have also been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. (Matt. 28:19; Acts 10:47-48; Rom 6:4; Acts 20:21; Heb.10:22)