Statement of Faith—ArkHaven Ministries

Although we are a conservative and mainstream Evangelical ministry, our heart is to minister to the entirety of the body of Christ. Our mission is not so much to teach doctrine as it is to encourage thinking ... as demonstrated by the following statement...

Is God doing something new as we enter a new millennium? Is He bringing change into the church today? Yes! He always is! God is perfect and is eternally the same, but He is eternally up to something different in every generation (Malachi 3:6). His ways and methods stay fresh, and are forever fresh—unpredictably new. we can count on this.

It is through our personal relationship with Jesus Christ that God allows change and freshness in our lives. Therefore, what He is doing in the church today may seem—in our ignorance—to be new and creative to us, but to Him it is just our progression towards perfection in Christ Jesus.

We believe that Jesus is fully God and was fully man. We believe that there is no salvation in any other name but Jesus. The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs. God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.

To learn more about what we believe, read the biography on the author, Kenneth Uptegrove

To see what we believe concerning the Second Coming of Christ, read our eschatology article.

Being a revivalist rather than an evangelist, my ministry emphasis is on the need for revival in the church. Not until the church is operating in all the provision that God has set in place for her to evangelize with, can the church bring the lost to Christ on the scale we all wish to see. Not until we are truly following the Acts model for the church can we ever hope to be the Bride who has truly made herself ready for the Bride Groom.

Although I have a passion to see the Great Commission fulfilled, my major focus and calling is to play my part in preparing a glorious Bride for the coming Bride Groom.

The theme running through my book: Dawning: The Next Great Move of God, says that the next great move of God is more about quality than quantity. The multitudes will be there, but more importantly, within that multitude there will be the prepared Bride who has a passion for the Bride Groom.

God is calling the church to exceed the purity and power of the first century church. And even more importantly, God is preparing a glorious Bride who has focused on nothing else but preparing herself for the Bride Groom, the Lion of Judah, the everlasting King! My mission is to teach and exhort all who will listen, to be ready for that day.

God: There is one God, Creator of all things, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in three Manifestations: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is true God and true man, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He died on the cross, the complete and final sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. Further, He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He is now our High Priest and Advocate.

The Holy Spirit: The ministry of the Holy Spirit is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and during this age, to convince men of sin, regenerate the believing sinner, indwell, guide, instruct, and empower the believer for godly living and service.

Man: Man was created in the image of God but fell into sin and is therefore lost, and only through regeneration by the Holy Spirit can salvation and spiritual life be obtained.

Salvation: The shed blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection provide the only ground for justification and salvation for all who believe, and only such as receive Jesus Christ by faith are born of the Holy Spirit and thus become children of God.

The Return of Jesus Christ: The personal, and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ is our hope and has vital bearing on the personal life and service of the believer. We are decidedly pre-millennial and are somewhere between the mid-tribulation-rapture and the pre-wrath-rapture doctrines. Read more on our stance concerning the return of Christ.

Future Events: There will be a bodily resurrection of all the dead; of the believer to everlasting blessedness and joy with the Lord, and of the unbeliever to judgment and everlasting conscious punishment.

The Church: The true Church is composed of all such person, who, through saving faith in Jesus Christ, have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and are united together in the body of Christ of which He is the Head.

Baptism and Communion: Water baptism by immersion soon after accepting Christ as personal Savior is a testimony of death to sin and resurrection to a new life. The Lord’s Supper is a memorial service setting forth in sacred and symbolic manner the death of the Lord Jesus Christ; all true believers and only believers should share in it.