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WE, believers from the HNJMI confess and defend God’s only and true Gospel which is the power of God unto the salvation of those who believe (Romans 1:16, 17; 1 Corinthians 15:1, 2). No church and no person may claim any right to manufacture his own gospel, then stamp upon it as his own sectarian brand (e.g. “Foursquare Gospel,” “Full-Gospel” [as if there is a partial one], a "Reformed accent" held by certain apostate Reformed churches, etc.). It is the conviction of the HNJMI that in these darkest times when the essence of the Gospel is rampantly obscured, misunderstood and adulterated, the HNJMI is not ashamed to declare and confess the absolute message of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ while bearing in mind that salvation is impossible itself apart from a sure and certain knowledge of the truth.

The HNJMI therefore understand and confess the Biblical Gospel to be:

… God’s promise(1- Rom. 1.2; Mar. 16.15-16; 1 Cor. 15.1-4) to save His elect(2 - 2 Thes. 2.13; 2 Tim. 1.9) yet lost, guilty, defiled,(3 - Rom. 3.9-20) hell-deserving sinners,(4 - Rom. 1.18; Eph. 2.3; 2 Thes. 1.8-9) freely give them all the benefits and blessings of salvation(5 - Rom. 8.30) (including the subjective work of the Holy Spirit(6 - Gal. 3.14; Tit. 3.6) in them, which includes faith, repentance and sanctification unto good works and perseverance therein), and to entitle them to all of heaven and final glory based solely upon the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ(7 - Rom. 3.21-22; 10.4; 2 Cor. 5.21) freely imputed(8 - Rom. 4.4-7) and received by God-given faith(9 - Eph. 2.8; Phi. 1.29; 2Ped. 1.1) before they take the first step in seeking to serve the Lord in a way pleasing and acceptable to Him.(10 - Heb. 9.14; Tit. 2.11-14).

This Gospel with its ramifications is more comprehensively and systematically taught in the historical Reformed Creeds known as the Three Forms of Unity (The Belgic Confession, The Heidelberg Catachism and the Canons of Dordt) and the Westminster or Presbyterian Standards.

The HNJMI believe that the faithful bearer of this glorious Gospel in the last 400 years is the historic Reformed Faith proclaimed by faithful Reformed and Presbyterian churches holding fast to the faith of the apostolic church. We unashamedly identify ourselves as a “Reformed" Church though the term “Reformed” has been taken by so many apostate churches. Their reason for this is that the colossal battles for Biblical truth were bound within historical circumstances most significantly during the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. Church history, therefore, on the one hand, vindicates the cause of the name “Reformed” while on the other hand witnesses against the apostasy of professing Reformed churches. The HNJMI is not embarrassed in refusing to call their church by the Biblical phrases “Church of God in Christ Jesus” or “Church of Christ,” not because these are wrong, but because so many cults and sects drag these Biblical names while holding to doctrines and practices offensive to Scripture.

The HNJMI maintain fellowship only and exclusively with individuals and churches and currently acknowledges The Bastion of Truth Reformed Church in the Philippines, The Covenant Protestant Reformed Church of the Northern Ireland and The Protestant Reformed Church of America who possess similar convictions especially in regard to their unequivocal confession of the true Gospel and its ramifications to salvation (Mark 16:15, 16). While shunning themselves from a spirit of rash judgmentalism, the members of the HNJMI detest compromise and unbiblical ecumenism with churches holding to the damnable teachings of Pelagianism, Semi-Pelagianism and Arminianism and the rampant tolerantism among so many professing Calvinists. They are, in the perspective of the HNJMI, objects of solemn rebuke (Galatians 6:8, 9) and evangelism.