OUR PASTORS
Aaron & Adrian Lindsey
Pastor Aaron and Adrian Lindsey married in 1998 in their small Ohio hometown. They both were involved in music and ministry in their local church and decided that Ohio was a great launching place but God had more for them. They moved with their first born to Texas in 2002 and began a journey that changed the trajectory of their lives forever! They are the proud parents of 3 wonderful children. They are entrepreneurs and pastors who live to see God’s people come to know Him and become who He designed them to be. They have a dream to see a church that marks a city that marks the world. Believe LA is a dream coming to fulfillment that will help other people’s dreams come true.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
At Believe LA, our doctrine is explicitly supported and adapted from the Bible.
We believe that there is only one living and true God, who exists in three distinct manifestations — God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Deuteronomy 6:4 | Matthew 28:19 | Genesis 1:1;1:26-27 | Psalm 90:2 | Matt 28:19
Jesus Christ is both the eternal Son of God and virgin-born Son of man. Fully God, fully man, He surrendered nothing of His deity during His earthly life. His sinless, sacrificial offering on the cross satisfied the Father’s justice, offering atonement for all of humanity’s sins, for all time. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His physical ascension, and His visible return back to earth to establish His earthly kingdom.
John 1:14-18 | 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 | Hebrews 1:3 | Colossians 2:9 | Revelation 20:11-15
The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son of God.
He executes the will of God in this world through humanity, by leading, guiding, filling, teaching, and convicting.
The Holy Spirit is not merely an impersonal force, but a person, displaying the qualities of personhood (intellect, emotions, and will). He equips believers upon conversion by giving the gifts to be used for the building up of the church, and by bearing fruit through their yielded lives.
John 3:1-8 | John 16:5-16 | Acts 1:8 | Ephesians 2:10 | Galatians 5:16-25
We were created in the image of God male and female, destined to enjoy an intimate relationship with God, fulfilling His will here on earth. But because of Adam and Eve’s willful sin in the garden, sin entered into the world, and has infected all of humanity. Therefore, because of our inherent sinful nature received from our father Adam, we are all separated from God, spiritually dead, and destined for physical death and an eternity removed from God.
Genesis 1:27 | Romans 1:18-32 | Romans 3:21-23 | Romans 5:12-20 | Ephesians 2:1-3
We believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins as the only sufficient sacrifice, offering the atonement of sins for all mankind through His death, burial, and resurrection.
While salvation is available to all, it is only experienced by those who respond to His gracious gift by faith apart from works. For those who do respond, we are regenerated and baptized by the Holy Spirit, becoming children of God, given a new nature and placed into the universal body of Christ, making us eternally secure in Him. As a result of our new relationship with God through His Son Jesus, we are now called to a life of submission to the Holy Spirit, manifesting spiritual fruit, and walking in good works that God has prepared beforehand for us to do.
John 1:12 | John 14:6 | John 3:16 | Titus 3:4-7 |Acts 4:12 | Ephesians 2:8-9 | 1 John 5:11-13 | Galatians 3:26
We believe that every word in the original writings is inspired by God and is without error.
The Word of God reveals God’s nature and will for all of humanity, and, because of this, it is to be the foundation of faith and practice. We affirm that while the Scriptures are accurate in all matters, they were never given to be an end in and of themselves, but rather a means to a relationship with God. Because of this, the authority and teaching of Scriptures will have a preeminent place in our church.
II Timothy 3:16–17 | II Peter 1:20–21 | Hebrews 4:12 | John 17:17
For all who have placed their faith in God through His Son Jesus Christ, they are a part of the universal body of believers known as the church.
This placement of the believer into the universal church requires an association of the believer with other followers of Christ in a local assembly. The purpose of the local church is to lead people to Christ and to bring them to maturity in Christ. The members of the local church are to live their lives in humble submission to other Spirit-led believers, and to the God-appointed leaders of the church. Believe Church is an autonomous local assembly that is led by Jesus Christ, who gives direction as the head of this body through a body of appointed leaders.
Hebrews 10:24–25 | Acts 2:41–47 | I Corinthians 12–14 | Matthew 28:18– 20 | Ephesians 2:19–22 | I Thessalonians 4:15–17
Man was created to exist forever. He will either live eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God, through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell. To be eternally with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are places of eternal existence.
Matthew 24:36 | I Thessalonians 4:15–17 | John 14:1–3 | John 3:18 | Romans 6:23 | Revelation 20:15
WHY WE BELIEVE
Encounter God, experience love, explore their purpose, and engage in community.
The evidence that we believe is that we act on what we learn. Satan doesn’t care if we study the Bible as long as we don’t apply it to our life.
- But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22
- Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. John 13:17
No one of us can do the work of the ministry alone. We all have the potential to make a great impact. We believe in training and educating people to do the work of the ministry.
- Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do His work and build up the church, the body of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-12
We believe that Loving people is a priority. God is Love and if we are His children, we should love our neighbors as ourselves.
- Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. John 13:35
We believe that God often uses young people to do great things. Teaching young people in the church to grow in their relationship with the Lord prepared them to serve Christ in all they do. As a result, this nurtures the congregation and allows the church to flourish.
- Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Psalm 71:17
God wants us to intimately encounter Him. Worship is essential to a vibrant, thriving Christian life. We believe worship seals us in our identity by the truth of who God is and what God has done for us.
- Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Psalm 29:2
The value of humanity was set by God who sacrificed Jesus to save the world. Jesus showed God’s love consistently by meeting people in their humanity and reminding them of the purpose God has for them. We believe in honoring the dignity of humanity while encouraging them to become all God wants them to be.
- For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16
We believe in the great commission. It would be a tragedy to keep this wonderful life we have experienced in Christ to ourselves and not offer others the chance to know the saving power of God.
- Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 28:19
We believe in lifting and developing servant leaders. We want to encourage and support leaders who are obsessed with helping other find and fulfill their God-given purpose.
- But among you it will be different. Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant. Luke 22:26
The evidence that we believe is that we act on what we learn. Satan doesn’t care if we study the Bible as long as we don’t apply it to our life.
- But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. James 1:22
- Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. John 13:17