Our name Rochdale Evangelical Church tells you quite a lot about us.
We are for Rochdale
We’re a local church started by people living in Rochdale, for people living in Rochdale. Our goal is to tell people in the town the best news there has ever been – the news about Jesus Christ.
We are Evangelical
Evangelical is a word you may not have come across before. An evangelical Christian is one who believes the good news about Jesus the Son of God who died for our sin on the cross. We believe this is reliably recorded for us in the Bible and seek to share it with people. There are lots of ways of summarizing that good news. We like the one found in a little booklet called Knowing God Personally. It has four headings which are below. If you click on them you can find a longer blogpost explaining them and if you look at the Bible verses you can see some places in the Bible which show this is what it teaches.
- God loves you and created you to know him personally (John 3:16; John 17:3)
- We’re separated from God by our sin, so we can’t know Him or experience his love (Romans 3:23; Romans 6:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9)
- Jesus Christ is God’s only solution for our sin. Through Him alone we can know God and experience His love and forgiveness (Colossians 1:15; 1 Peter 3:18; Acts 1:3; John 14:6)
- We must each respond by asking Jesus to come into our lives. Then we can know God personally and experience His love and forgiveness (John 1:12; John 14:23)
We are a Church
The final word in our name is church. A church isn’t really a building – we haven’t got one of those yet! A church is really just a group of people who have put their trust in Jesus, meeting together.
The Bible says:
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, 25 not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another– and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
(Hebrews 10:24-25 NIV)
So that’s what we want to be. We want to be a group of people meeting together in Rochdale who have trusted in Jesus and want to share him and his message with other people in Rochdale.
If you want to find out more about some of that, have a look at some of the links below, have a browse through our website or get in contact with us.
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Rochdale Evangelical Church was planted in 2021 with support from Oldham Bethel Church. We aim to be a gospel-centred, Bible teaching church making disciples of Jesus in Rochdale.
We are affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC). This means we align with their doctrinal basis and ethos statements, which you can read for further information on our beliefs.
We are a registered CIO, Charity Number: 1203962.