Our Beliefs
While Mo’ed Consulting is not a church, we are followers of Christ who are seeking to partner with the global Church in its mission to make disciples.
Doctrine then becomes important, as we consider that a disciple is one following a teacher. Our understanding of that Teacher- who He is, how He calls, and unto what He calls- is vital to our ability to work together.
To that end, we’ve listed several key beliefs below. If you find yourself in alignment with these, we’d love to work with you (and we promise to leave any lively debates about your theological distinctives for another time!)
God
We believe in the One True God, Yahweh, eternally existing in three, co-equal persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus, as the Second Person of the Trinity, is fully God and fully man. We believe in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father where He intercedes for us, in His present rule as Head of the Church, and in His personal return in power and glory.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit, who imparts new life to those who believe in Christ. Through His indwelling presence and transforming power, He gives assurance of salvation, deepening faith and righteousness through sanctification, and the empowerment of ministry and good works.
The Bible
We believe that the Bible is the complete, inspired, inerrant, infallible, living and active Word of God. Sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.
Humanity
We believe that God created humans as equally valuable bearers of His image and glory. Since the garden, we’ve had the call to bring that glory to the ends of the earth (to “subdue” the earth). The uniqueness of our creation as men and women, from the moment of conception, across many ethnicities, is not a deficiency in that plan. Rather, it is a wonderful expression of God’s creativity, and a vital part of His plan. He has made no mistakes in who He has created, nor how He has created them. We are, each of us, not one in a million, but one of one. A portrait unlike any other, specifically woven in our mother’s womb to glorify God in a way unlike anyone else. Created for such a time as this. It is a primary plan of the enemy in his efforts to steal, kill, and destroy, to call our identity into question- and in so doing call God’s identity as a loving, sovereign, eternal King into question.
Sin
Humanity willfully rejected the loving invitation to exist peacefully in the presence of the Lord. Instead, we chose to separate ourselves from Him through sin, which- apart from Christ- has eternally fractured our existence on both a physical and spiritual level. Now, as it’s written in the Psalms, we are born in iniquity. As such, we are deserving of righteous judgement and eternal separation from God and any measure of His grace.
Salvation
But God, being rich in mercy, did not leave us to our just punishment. Instead He sent His son Jesus to die in the place of sinners, taking the full judgement of all past, present, and future sins onto Himself. Thus, through His death and resurrection, salvation is found in Christ alone. No one comes to the Father except through Him. There is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved, and those who are in Christ have been redeemed by grace, through faith, and are destined for eternity in peace with the Lord.
Eternity
We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous—the redeemed to eternal life in the presence of God, and the unrepentant to eternal separation from Him under just condemnation.
The Church
The Church is the Body of Christ, designed and called by God to make disciples and overrun the gates of hell. It consists of all who are in Christ- unified and empowered by varied gifts of God’s grace to reach the lost, equip the saints, and encourage one another in fellowship as we run well the race set before us.
Marriage
Marriage, like everything else, was created with a specific purpose. It is not a human institution, but a divinely created image of the Gospel. It was created for His glory, and like all things in His creation, marriage contains good gifts from a Good Father along the way- intended to draw our eyes back to Him. At the same time, marriage is not promised to all people, nor required to experience the fullness of His love for us.
But, for those called unto marriage, it is a unique opportunity to experience and exhibit God’s grace.
The specific image discussed in the Creation narrative of Genesis is that of one man and one woman. This structure is then confirmed and made all the more beautiful as we consider the divinely inspired words of Paul in Ephesians- describing Jesus as the bridegroom and the Church as His bride. Here we begin to understand that, through a husband loving his wife faithfully & sacrificially, we specifically highlight Jesus’ sacrificial love for us. Further, in His restoration of marriages broken by our sin, He further images His gospel with the restoration of a covenant that seemed unable to be restored.
As such, the specific design of marriage being for one man and one woman serves to echo throughout creation that God is exactly who He says He is- holy, loving, gracious, merciful, complete, and worthy of our praise. It is also a desire of our enemy to destroy covenantal, biblical marriages that follow this design through any means available in order to stop the advancing Gospel for which creation longs.
Yet, in response to our enemy, we hold to the truth of Scripture and the sovereignty in His design. We take refuge in Christ, trust that the gospel will continue to advance, and submit to the process of sanctification- while taking up the call to make disciples of all nations.
Whether as single individuals, or married couples.