About Us
RGCM was established in January 27, 2012 by a group of Christians workers seeking to form an organization that would express their oneness in Jesus Christ and to formalize into a growing force and influence of evangelism in the country. The need to evangelize the Philippines through church planting endeavor is the primary factor that prompted RGCM's inception. RGCM has two main focus of ministry: Establish theological education institution for church planters and ministers and to plant churches nationwide under the name "Redeeming Grace Christian Centre". Thus RGCM is the mission arm of RGCC churches.
RGCM is a non-profit Mission sending agency whose purpose is to advance the work of the body of Christ nationwide through a variety of ministries such as: community outreach, leadership training and youth development. Through these avenues of ministry, we are able to identify, select, train and send men and women and integrating them into church-planting movements and help them build or establish a dynamic congregation patterned in the reformed perspective or tradition. We exist to minister among indigenous and unreached people groups in the entire Philippines, partnering with national churches and indigenous leaders whenever possible. We also partners with local churches under our jurisdiction to glorify God through the discovery and engagement of their unique potential, purpose and passion for local or cross-cultural ministry.
Philosophy:
We believe that church planting is God's eternal plan. The establishment of the universal church and the multiplication of local churches is how God will accomplish his purpose of bringing glory to Himself, by uniting all things under Christ.
Our Reformed Perspective
RGCM upholds the doctrines of sovereign grace and the truth that God saves His people as described in the Westminster Standards. The Holy Scriptures are inerrant and authoritative, relating the reliable history of God’s covenantal relationship with His children. In regard to that relationship, it is clear that missions is a divine enterprise in which God commands and graciously accepts the obedience of His children. Our foundation for missions is the dual truth that God chose in eternity those who will be saved and that He also uses us as instruments in the process of saving them.
Our Church Planting Movements
A church-planting movement is a Spirit-directed, vision-driven, sustained expansion of Christ's Kingdom among a particular geographic or ethnic people. This is accomplished through indigenously led churches resulting in ongoing church multiplication and renewal that significantly impacts all levels of society-spiritually, socially and culturally. We will advance church-planting movements by partnering with an existing group or denomination that is Reformed and covenantal. When there is no such group we may establish a new Reformed and covenantal denomination. As the Holy Spirit leads we will also take opportunities to impact others from our Reformed and covenantal perspective.
RGCM believes that the Church is God's instrument to complete the missionary task. Our approach is to advance movements of the gospel through the planting of self-propagating, self-supporting, and self-governing churches, which live out a dynamic Reformed and covenantal faith through trained and empowered leadership.
Holistic Ministry
We proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ in all of its fullness and demonstration through meeting physical, emotional, social or cultural needs, in the context of church planting.
A Synopsis of the Beliefs of the RGCC
The Bible is the inspired and inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
There is one God, eternal and self-existing in three persons (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) who are to be equally loved, honored, and adored.
All mankind participated in Adam's fall from his original sinless state and is thus lost in sin and totally helpless.
The Sovereign God, for no other reason than His own unfathomable love and mercy, has chosen lost sinners from every nation to be redeemed by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit and through the atoning death and resurrection of His son, Jesus Christ.
Those sinners whom the Spirit quickens, come to believe in Christ as Savior by the Word of God, are born again, become sons of God, and will persevere to the end.
Justification is by faith and through it the undeserving sinner is clothed with the righteousness of Christ.
The goal of God's salvation in the life of the Christian is holiness, good works, and service for the glory of God.
At death the Christian's soul passes immediately into the presence of God and the unbeliever's soul is eternally separated from God unto condemnation.
Baptism is a sign of God's covenant and is properly administered to children of believers in their infancy as well as to those who come as adults to trust in Christ.
Jesus Christ will return to earth, visibly and bodily, at a time when He is not expected, to consummate history and the eternal plan of God.
The gospel of God's salvation in Jesus Christ must be published to all the world as a witness before Jesus Christ returns.
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