Saskatchewan Home Church

About Us: 

This work as stated on the Home Page is to unite fundamental Christians in the spirit of the early church.  Knowing that there are many Christians such as ourselves who are looking for the home church, founded on conservative fundamental doctrine.

We are not directly opposed to the formal design of present day local churches.  A Christian must go where he believes the Lord has sent him.  I myself have spent a number of years in formal churches and have also home churched for a number of years.  But I have found my spiritual growth stronger in the home church, where life is not spent sitting in a pew for an hour or two on Sundays and one evening of the week.  The home church provided the best form of fellowship and close knitness of believers where the Word of God can be discussed and fellowship be had around the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let it not be assumed that the home church has no structure.  Every local home church must be structured after New Testament principles.  There must be a discipline and order patterned after the New Testament example.  "Let all things be done decently and in order." (I Corinthians 14:40) There is also a greater accountability to each other in the home church.

Many home churches seem to separate Jesus Christ from the written Word of God.  We do not believe this can be done.  The written Word of God reveals who Jesus Christ is and the plan of God.  Like a hinges on a door, both are necessary.  Christ for salvation and the Word of God to grow in knowledge of Jesus Christ.  We must love, honour, and obey the written Word of God.  "With my whole heart have I sought thee:  O let me not wander from thy commandments.  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." (Psalm 119:10-11)  The more spiritual we are, the more we love the Word of God.  It cannot be otherwise.

As local home church we would desire sound doctrine.  Acts 2:42 said, "And they continued stedfastly in the apostles'doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." These are the four main pillars of the church.

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The home church also is where the believers can stir up the gifts and callings God has given them.  We believe that Christ's Church is stifled because men who are called to teach or preach are not recognized within the body.  In Ephesians 4:11-13 tells us that the scriptures do not give all the gifts to one man, but they have been distributed amongst the body for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.  And that God appoints elders as overseers to teach and preach, who meet the qualifications of I Timothy 3:1-7, but also to stir up believes to exercise their gifts or callings.

We believe that the Bible teaches plurality of eldership, that whenever possible there should be plurality in this area.  See 'Articles' for teaching in this area.  Many of these articles will reflect our position on Church structure and practice.

If you would like to discuss home fellowship with us feel free to contact us.  We find that we are living in an age of great apostacy, that there is a great departure from the fundamental truth of scripture.  The multitude of Bible translations in the market today have nullified the simplicity of God's Word, and doctrine has become a word which has fallen to the way side.  Many local churches today have heaped to themselves teachers having itching ears, and have turned from the truth to fables.  (II Peter 2:1-3, I Timothy 4:1-5, II Timothy 4:3)

This work is in its infancy.  Its a work of faith on my part and my family.  We have stepped out in faith and feel the Lord is directing us in this area.  We believe that there are others of like mind scattered out there who seek what we seek which is a return to the simplicity of the the New Testament Church.  Our main objective is to fellowship with one another in the truth with scriptural unity.

God bless.
Kent Goodnough

 Statement of Faith:

 1. The Bible, verbally and plenarily inspired, is God's Word; infallible, inerrant, and authoritative in all matters of which it speaks.

2. There is one God, personal, infinite, perfect, and eternally existing as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is equal in every divine perfection.

3. The Holy Spirit is a divine person and works in conviction of men and in the regeneration, sanctification, and preservation of the believer.

4. Satan is a fallen, created personality, opposed to all that is holy and is destined to eternal punishment.

5. God directly created the universe from no pre-existing substance. We reject both naturalistic and theistic evolution.

6. Man was made in God's own image and fell into sin in Adam and is now a sinner both by nature and choice, and can be restored to God's favor only by God's provision in Christ as applied by the Holy Spirit.

7. Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit, was born by the Virgin Mary, and He is true God and true man.

8. Salvation comes to man only by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, apart from any human merit through his substitutionary atoning sacrifice.

9. Jesus Christ rose bodily from the grave, ascended into heaven, and daily intercedes on our behalf as our High Priest.

10. In order to be saved, sinners must experience a new spiritual birth wrought by a sovereign God through the power of his Word and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. This birth is instantaneous and not a process, and is evidenced by newness of life.

11. Justification is an act of God in which He declares the believer to be righteous on the bases of faith in Christ and the imputation of Christ's righteousness to the believing sinner.

12. Sanctification is the setting apart of a believer unto God as His purchased possession through the work of the Holy Spirit and the power of His Word.

13. Every believer is eternally secure, being 'kept by the power of God.'

14. All those who have experienced salvation are members of the church which is His body and thus are eligible for baptism & membership in the local church. Jesus Christ is the Head of the church & every local church has the right under Christ to govern itself.

15. Baptism by immersion and the Lord's supper are ordinances of the church.

16. The Bible commands believers to be separated unto God and to be separated from worldliness and ecclesiastical apostasy.

17. Civil goverment  exists by Divine appointment, and separation between it and the church should be maintained.

18. Isreal is God's covenant people now dispersed because of unbelief but yet to be regathered and saved as a nation at the Second Advent of Christ.

19.  The return of Christ includes both the Rapture of the church and His return in glory. The first is for His church which is personal, pretribulational, premillenial  and may occur at any moment. The second is His return to earth to establish His righteous reign over the earth. The coming is visible, personal, premillenial and in power and great glory.

20. All persons will experience resurrection, believers to a state of eternal felicity and unbelievers to eternal punishment.