Truth is Found in Jesus Christ
Through Biblical teaching, exemplary living and practical training, we proclaim Jesus Christ, Who by His indwelling Life equips people to serve Him in His Church worldwide; thus being a Living witness to His Resurrection Life in a lost and perishing world.
Capernwray Harbour Bible Centre is located in beautiful British Columbia, home to diverse wildlife and spectacular scenery.
Here, we train men and women in a working knowledge of Jesus Christ the Living Word, in knowing Him more deeply and personally as their risen and indwelling Lord…in personal disciplines of studying, meditating in and communicating the message of God’s Written Word…to discover and prove in everyday experience the reality of the Christian Life…Christ’s Life in and through them…in being more effective members of their local church, equipped for full-time Christian service regardless of their occupation!
Main Thrust
Truth is as timeless as God Himself; it never changes. It may be forgotten, neglected, perverted, opposed, rejected, counterfeited or displaced, but it never changes. It is not an emphasis, a concept, a party line, nor merely an option – it is an imperative!
God created humanity in such a way that the presence of God as Creator within a person as Creature is imperative to his or her humanity. Mankind in normality is to be distinguished from the animal kingdom by a quality of life and behavior that can have no possible explanation apart from God Himself in a person.
This fact is truth. It is not subject to debate or dialogue, it is not an option to be offered, it is a fact to be proclaimed. Truth does not evolve over the years, any more than God evolves or Christ evolved.
In assuming our humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ as Creator chose to play the role of Creature. As the God who made mankind, He chose to be the kind of humanity that He as God had made. In declaring that He in His humanity without the Father could do nothing, Christ demonstrated the truth that has always been true, that we in our humanity can do nothing without Him; that the Father as God, then, was as indispensable to Christ in his humanity, as Christ as God now, is indispensable to us in our humanity.
To recognize this and to practice the principle is the nature of true repentance, and without true repentance, there can be no true faith. For true repentance compels us to be totally dependent upon the Father. Christ then can do the work in us as the Father then did the work in Him, and we let all God loose in the world, not then just the sky, but God Himself is the limit.
This gives an entirely new dimension to our understanding of the Gospel and the remedial measure it proclaims. Not just that in the redemptive act Christ died for us, but that in the regenerative purpose of God, Christ rose again from the dead to live His Life in us. Thus, by Apostolic proclamation: ‘if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching in vain, and your faith also is in vain … ye are yet in your sins!’ The Resurrection is at the very heart of the Gospel, through which we are born again (1 Corinthians 15:14-17; 1 Peter 1:3). Any departure from this truth is a corruption of the mind and has its origin in the subtlety of Satan. It is a departure from the ‘simplicity which is in Christ.’
Were the time to come when by mutual consent the members of the worldwide Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers were to depart from this which is the true substance of our faith, then God would have written over the Fellowship, as over so much else of what purports to be Christendom, the word ‘ICHABOD’, the ‘Glory is departed’. (2 Corinthians 11:2-3; 1 Samuel 4:21)
New birth is a divine conception! A man takes a woman to wife so that his life, imparted to her may be reproduced in and through her. We too, have been espoused to ‘One Husband’, Christ. ‘Married to Another, even to Him who is risen from the dead’ (Romans 7:4), so that His life imparted to us by the Holy Spirit at new birth may be reproduced in and through us, ‘to raise up the foundations of many generations’ (Isaiah 58:12). Abiding fruit to His eternal praise, and not only to abide, but to reproduce!
The Lord Jesus Christ established the fact that our spiritual union with Him, as He was in spiritual union with the Father, is the true and ultimate basis of all evangelism, missions, and church planting. The world will know and the world will believe, that the Father has sent Me, when they are in Us as I am in Thee, Father, and I am in them as Thou art in Me (from John 17:21-23 KJV).
Basis of Faith
The Bible is, in its entirety, the revelation of God for mankind, inspired by the Holy Spirit.
God is the triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Lord Jesus Christ is God’s Son being one with the Father. All things are created by Him and for Him.
Through the action of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, He became man.
He was without sin and of His free will, and by His sacrificial death upon the Cross, He brought about salvation for this fallen world.
He is the only mediator between God and man, and by accepting His salvation through faith, man is justified from his sins and receives forgiveness and eternal life.
Jesus Christ is risen bodily from the dead.
Jesus Christ will return to deliver just judgement and to bring all things to completion.
The Holy Spirit is God in unity with the Father and the Son.
Through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ comes to dwell within those who accept Him through faith. Through the presence of the Holy Spirit, a person becomes a new creature and is being transformed into the likeness of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ adds those who believe in Him to his Body. This is His church on earth, of which He is the Head.
