Église Gloire de Dieu/EGD is a Pentecostal religious denomination born in the Revival Churches movement of the year 1995 in Goma/Democratic Republic of Congo to date. Our confession of faith is based on the BIBLE, which is the inspired Word of God:
1. The Bible is the inspired Word of God, which constitutes the only infallible authority for faith and practice (Deuteronomy 6:4; John 17:3; Hebrews 11:6). It reveals God’s will to man. The Bible contains 66 books which constitute the complete and error-free truth of God; including the Old Testament (39 books) and the New Testament (27 books).
2. There is ONE TRUE “ETERNAL” GOD, who has neither beginning nor end. He is Holy Spirit, Infinite, Love and Immutable. He exists eternally in THREE PERSONS: THE FATHER, THE SON and THE HOLY SPIRIT. All cooperate in one Spirit and for one purpose; they are inseparable “ONE”.
3. That God created man in his image and likeness from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils his breath of life (Genesis 1.26-27; 2.7). Man (Adam and Eve) became a living being, created without error to live eternally with God in communion and joy.
4. Our first parents, Adam and Eve, sinned by going against the commandments of the Lord (They ate the fruit of the tree forbidden by God). So they disobeyed God and fell into the sin of transgression which separates him from God and were cast out of the Garden of Eden. As a result, man lost his innocence and suffered the punishment of spiritual and physical death. Thus sin entered the world and all creation cursed (Genesis 3. 1-19).
5. That Salvation is A GIFT OF GOD’S GRACE based on the redemption accomplished in JESUS CHRIST by his blood shed on the cross, and not the merit of our human works (Ephesians 1. 4-7; 2.8-10) . Église Gloire de Dieu believes that Jesus Christ died for all worlds, but only those who believe in Him receive salvation by grace, which they cannot lose (John 3:16-18). Therefore, they are no longer under condemnation, but are justified. This Justification restores their fellowship with God and involves the passing of all our sins onto Christ and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to ourselves (Romans 8:30-33; 1 Peter 2:24).
6. Christian Baptism by immersion in JESUS CHRIST (Acts 8. 36-39) is the solemn testimony of a believer who manifests his faith in the Savior crucified, dead, buried and resurrected on the third day. Thus he is united in death to sin and in his resurrection into newness of life (Romans 6:1-11). It is also a sign of communion and identification with a local church (Acts 2. 41-42). The act of baptism involves two people: The believer and the servant of God. The believer is baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in whom he has believed; The servant of God accomplishes the act in obedience to the order he received from his Master, therefore in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
7. The Lord’s Supper is an act by which the believer approaches the Lord’s table to remember the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. This act must always be preceded by an examination of conscience (1 Corinthians 11. 23-32). This Lord’s Supper constitutes a real Communion with the resurrected Christ, through his body and blood until he returns (1Corinthians 10.1-6).
8. The baptism of the Holy Spirit promised by the Lord Jesus Christ and which was manifested on the day of Pentecost (Acts2.1-12). We believe in all manifestations of the Holy Spirit as experienced by the Disciples and Apostles of the Lord (speaking in tongues, various gifts, prodigies and miracles (Acts 4. 23-33).
9. To absolute holiness of the Christian living on earth. The man who has received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is Sanctified and justified by faith to God. Therefore, he is declared a HOLY and recognized as such. This sanctification concerns his position (1 Corinthians 6 . 11; Hebrews 10. 14). We also believe that there is progressive sanctification through the work of the Holy Spirit. The believer becomes more and more like Christ by obeying the word of God and allowing himself to be filled by the power of the Holy Spirit (John 17. 17; Romans 6. 1 – 22; 1 Thessalonians 4. 3 -7). Thus, he is called to keep his communion with His God by renouncing impiety, the lusts of world and must live the love which is manifested in the zeal of good works (Titus 2.11-14).
10. We believe in monogamous, heterosexual marriages between a masculine man and a feminine woman; only marriages of one man and one woman are accepted and celebrated in all our EGD Churches (Genesis 1.27-28, Genesis 2.18-25).
11. Église Gloire de Dieu believes that Jesus Christ will return in physical person to rapture his church (1 Thessalonians 4. 16). If Christians believe that he died on the cross, was buried, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father in in the process of interceding for them, they must also believe that from there, before the tribulation, he will come in person to remove his Church from this earth and to reward the believers according to their works (John 14. 1-3). After which, he will return with all his saints to reign for a thousand years (Revelation 20. 1-7), at the end of which he will judge the living and the dead (Revelation 20. 11-15). His return constitutes a great hope for Christians (Titus 2. 12-13). No one knows the day or hour of his coming.