Our Faith · What we believe
Jesus Christ at the centre of everything.
These statements summarise the biblical convictions that guide the worship, teaching, discipleship, community life, and mission of Hong Kong City Cloud Ekklesia. They are a foundation for shared faith, not a replacement for careful reading of the whole counsel of Scripture.
Scripture references below point readers to the KJV text. Explanatory sentences are ministry summaries unless quotation marks explicitly identify a direct biblical quotation.
Our purpose · Seven core convictions
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The Gospel forms a mature people for the Kingdom.
These seven convictions express the purpose of Hong Kong City Cloud Ekklesia: to proclaim the crucified and risen Christ, lead people into the Father’s grace, form fruitful disciples, and bear faithful witness to God’s redemptive plan.
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Centred on the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ and His Gospel stand at the centre of our faith, worship, teaching, ministry, and life together. The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes. We proclaim the historical reality that Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose bodily on the third day according to the Scriptures. We do not proclaim a system of religious achievement; we proclaim Jesus Christ and the redemption He has accomplished.
Romans 1:16; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4
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Saved by grace through faith
Salvation is God’s gift, received by grace through faith—not earned by works, status, merit, or religious performance. Grace forgives, transforms, empowers holy living, and prepares us as vessels for God’s purposes. According to His sovereign will, the Holy Spirit confirms the Gospel through spiritual gifts, power, signs, and wonders. Every supernatural work must glorify Christ, agree with Scripture, and bear the fruit of love, truth, holiness, and transformed lives.
Ephesians 2:8–10; Acts 4:33; Hebrews 2:3–4
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Knowing Christ and returning to the Father
The Holy Spirit reveals and glorifies Jesus Christ and guides people into truth. Through Christ we know the Father, experience the abundance of His grace, return to His loving embrace, and are born again into resurrection life. We seek to abide in Christ, discern what the Father is doing, and cooperate with Him in humility, obedience, and faith, remembering that the Son did only what He saw the Father doing.
John 3:3–8; 5:19; 14:6–11; 16:13–15
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Our heavenly position and the keys of the Kingdom
The risen Christ is seated at the Father’s right hand, far above every principality, power, might, dominion, and name. United with Him by grace, believers are raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places; therefore, we set our minds on things above and no longer live under the dominion of darkness. Christ entrusts the keys of the Kingdom to His Ekklesia. This authority is never for control or self-exaltation, but is exercised under His lordship through the Gospel, truth, prayer, love, and faithful service.
Matthew 16:18–19; Ephesians 1:20–23; 2:6; Colossians 3:1–4
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Forming mature and fruitful disciples
We help believers become rooted, mature, and equipped within the life of the Ekklesia—vessels fit for the Master’s use in their families, workplaces, city, and generation. We pray that the seed of the Gospel and the Word will bear fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and a hundredfold: Christlike character, restored relationships, faithful gifts, new disciples, and future generations established in truth. Through the Gospel, people are called to see, enter, embody, and inherit the Kingdom of God.
Matthew 13:23; John 3:3–5; 2 Timothy 2:20–21; James 2:5
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The whole Bible as our highest written authority
We receive the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God and as the highest written authority for faith, teaching, life, ministry, and spiritual discernment. Scripture equips God’s people for every good work. Every teaching, prophecy, vision, miracle, spiritual experience, and exercise of authority must be tested by Scripture, centred on Jesus Christ, and recognised by holy fruit. We confess the Father Almighty, Jesus Christ His only Son and our Lord, the Holy Spirit, Christ’s holy Ekklesia, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and everlasting life.
2 Timothy 3:14–17; 1 John 4:1–3; Galatians 5:22–25
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Blessing Abraham’s descendants and living as one new man
God unfolded His redemptive plan through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel, and through Israel’s Messiah extends salvation to every nation. We honour and bless the Jewish people, pray for the peace and salvation of Israel and Jerusalem, and reject antisemitism, hatred, replacement, and spiritual pride. Gentile believers share in Abraham’s promised blessing by faith and must not boast against the natural branches. Through the cross, Christ reconciles Jewish and Gentile believers to God in one body, creating one new man without erasing either people’s identity. Together we bear witness to God’s covenant faithfulness and reconciling peace.
Genesis 12:1–3; Psalm 122:6; Romans 1:16; 11:17–29; Galatians 3:29; Ephesians 2:11–22
Our Faith · What we believe
Our doctrinal foundation.
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The Holy Scriptures
We receive the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as inspired by God, trustworthy in their witness, and the final written authority for faith and obedient life. Scripture must be read prayerfully, in literary and historical context, and with Messiah at the centre of its canonical fulfilment.
Psalm 19:7–11; Luke 24:27, 44–47; 2 Timothy 3:14–17; 2 Peter 1:19–21
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The one God
We believe in the one living and true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, eternally revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; God is one, not three gods.
Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1–3, 14; 2 Corinthians 13:14
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Yeshua the Messiah
We believe that Jesus—Yeshua the Messiah—is the eternal Word made flesh, fully divine and fully human. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, He lived without sin, revealed the Father, fulfilled Israel’s Messianic hope, and remains the only mediator between God and humanity.
Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18–23; John 1:1–18; Colossians 1:15–20; 1 Timothy 2:5
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Humanity and sin
Human beings are created in God’s image and possess God-given dignity, yet all have sinned and fall short of His glory. Sin brings guilt, corruption, alienation, and death; neither moral effort, religious status, nor human achievement can reconcile us to God.
Genesis 1:26–28; 3:1–24; Romans 3:9–23; 5:12; 6:23
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The cross and resurrection
Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the cross He willingly bore sin and judgment, shed His blood for the forgiveness of sins, defeated the powers of evil, and reconciled sinners to God. He was buried and bodily raised on the third day; His resurrection vindicates His identity, conquers death, and begins the new creation.
Isaiah 53:4–6; Matthew 26:28; Romans 3:23–26; 1 Corinthians 15:3–8; 1 Peter 2:24
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Salvation by grace
Salvation is God’s gift of grace, received through repentance and personal faith in the crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ. All who receive Him are forgiven, justified, reconciled, adopted, and given eternal life. Good works do not purchase salvation; they are its Spirit-formed fruit.
Mark 1:14–15; John 1:12–13; Romans 5:1–2; 10:9–13; Ephesians 2:8–10
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The Holy Spirit and holy living
The Holy Spirit gives new birth, unites believers to Christ, assures them of adoption, distributes gifts, and forms the character of Jesus in His people. Spirit-filled life is tested by Scripture and recognised through truth, love, holiness, humility, justice, mercy, and the fruit of the Spirit.
John 3:5–8; 14:16–17; Romans 8:9–17; 1 Corinthians 12:4–11; Galatians 5:16–25
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Torah, grace, and covenant faithfulness
We honour Torah as God’s instruction within Israel’s covenant story and as essential to understanding Messiah and the apostolic writings. We are not justified by works of the law. In the new covenant, the Spirit writes God’s ways upon the heart and forms grateful obedience flowing from grace, love, and faith.
Jeremiah 31:31–34; Matthew 5:17–20; Romans 3:28–31; 8:1–4; Galatians 3:21–29
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Israel, the nations, and the Ekklesia
God remains faithful to His covenant purposes for Israel. Through Israel’s Messiah, people from every nation are welcomed into God’s redeemed family. The Ekklesia does not erase Israel; Jewish and Gentile believers are reconciled in Messiah and called to humility, mutual honour, unity, and witness.
Genesis 12:1–3; Isaiah 49:5–6; Romans 9–11; Ephesians 2:11–22; Revelation 7:9–10
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Messiah’s return and all things made new
We await the visible return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, righteous judgment, and the renewal of creation. God will dwell with His people, evil and death will be finally removed, and the redeemed will worship and serve the Lamb in the new heaven and new earth.
Acts 1:9–11; 1 Corinthians 15:20–28, 50–58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18; Revelation 20:11–15; 21:1–5
Gospel response
Faith calls for a response.
Christian doctrine is not merely information to affirm. The Gospel calls every person to turn to God, trust Jesus Christ, receive the Holy Spirit, enter His people, and learn the way of faithful love.