New Life Christian Fellowship

Frequently Asked Questions

QUESTION
Why does the whole church pray at once for specific needs?

ANSWER
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth. (Acts 4:24)

QUESTION
Why do we sing in tongues and in English?

ANSWER
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the Spirit and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. (I Corinthians 14:14-15)

QUESTION
Why do we have audible praise to God?

ANSWER
� Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. (Psalm 103:1)
�I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. (Psalm 34:1)
� And when they heard this, they lifted their voices to God. (Acts 4:24)

QUESTION
Why do we sing choruses as well as hymns?

ANSWER
� And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess;but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. (Ephesians 5:18-19)
� Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Colossians 3:16)

QUESTION
Why are musical instruments a part of the worship service?

ANSWER
� Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with psaltry and harp. Praise Him with the timbrel and dance. Praise Him with the stringed instruments and organs. Praise Him upon the loud cymbals; Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals. (Psalm 150:3-5)
� And I heard a voice from heaven, as sound of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder, and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps. (Revelation 14:2)

QUESTION
Why do we clap our hands?

ANSWER
Oh, clap your hands all ye people; shout unto God with a voice of triumph. (Psalm 47:1)

QUESTION
What are Spiritual Gifts?

ANSWER
Supernatural abilities given by the Holy Spirit to believers. (1 Corinthians 12:1,4:11, 14:1)

QUESTION
What does it mean To Edify?

ANSWER
To build up. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. (1 Corinthians 14:12)

QUESTION
What is The Body?

ANSWER
The Church, the Body of Christ, on earth. (1 Corinthians 12:12-15)

QUESTION
Why do we stand when we sing?

ANSWER
And the Levites...of the children of the Korhites, stood up, to praise the Lord, God of Israel, with a loud voice on high. (2 Chronicles 20:19)

QUESTION
What is Revelation?

ANSWER
Our understanding of God's will and purposes. Wherefore I also...making mention of you in my prayers; that, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. (Ephesians 1:15-17)

QUESTION
What does it mean to minister?

ANSWER
To serve or help one another by the anointing of the Holy Spirit... but our sufficiency is of God; who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament.(II Corinthians 3:5 & 6)

QUESTION
What is The Anointing?

ANSWER
The presence and the work of the Holy Spirit in a person's life. But the anointing which you have received of Him abideth in you.(I John 2:27)

QUESTION
Why do we have speaking in tongues and interpretations of those tongues?

ANSWER
� Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. (1 Corinthians 14:39)
� But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal...To another diverse kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. (1 Corinthians 12:7 and 10)
� I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying. (I Corinthians 14:5)
� If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at most by three, and that by course, and let one interpret. (I Corinthians 14:27)

QUESTION
What is prophecy?

ANSWER
� The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:8)
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification. (I Corinthians 14:3)
� But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal...To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy. (I Corinthians 12:7 and 10)
� For ye may all prophecy one by one, that all may learn and all may be comforted. (I Corinthians 14:31)
� Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. (I Corinthians 14:29)

QUESTION
Why do we anoint with oil and pray for the sick?

ANSWER
Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord; and the prayers offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him. (James 5:14 and 15)

QUESTION
Why do we have this type of worship?

ANSWER
� But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth, for the Father seeketh such to worship Him. God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23-24)
� For we are of the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. (Phillipians 3:3