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The Humble Beginning:
Agape Bible Fellowship, is an indigenous, non-denominational ministry and is registered as a Christian charitable trust.

I am Pastor Reuben M.Sathiyaraj, and I have been in the Lord's ministry for the last 29 years, starting this Church and ministry in Bangalore South India in 1990.

My vision is to reach the unreached masses of more than 1.5 Billion Indians, especially those who are living in spiritual darkness, with a specific vision not only to reach the non-Christians, but to bring each believer to spiritual maturity, so that they may also have a vision and commitment to reach out to their own people.

God demands and I believe that everyone has the right to hear the life changing power of the Holy Spirit, the gospel, and the love of Christ. Therefore, our focus and outreach is to the needy, especially those living in slums and rural areas, befriending, helping with their material needs and showing them the love of Jesus in Word and deed. We try to teach ways they can be self sufficient and help themselves. To achieve this God given vision, we at Agape are directly involved in training believers, teaching befriending skills, and publishing the relevant materials in regional languages.

What we are today:

In August 1990, I initiated this ministry as a Bible study group with 3 families; it has now grown to 900 new believers consisting of 6 language groups. I am shepherding the parent Church in Bangalore which is in a rented building, but now due to the number of attendees and the size of the Church we are conducting two services each Sunday, 7 a.m and 9:30 a.m to accommodate everyone, even with these two packed services, people are standing on the steps and listening from outside. Every day the building is fully utilized to spread God's word through Bible studies, children's clubs, counseling, Pastors meetings, discussion groups, and all the other many aspects of ministry.

I also believe that the Church must serve the people, so it is fully utilized as a community centre in diverse kinds of ministries, daily we take the glorious gospel by personally visiting people providing relevant literature and friendship.

We firmly believe that plain teaching and practice of the Holy Bible in day to day life will bring a Biblical revival and solid belief in the Body of Christ in India. As many believers and regular Church attendees live below the poverty line, taking time from their work to attend the Sunday service, it is a struggle for them to even contribute to the offering.

But it is our firm hope to ignite, and fan the flames of revival, and we firmly believe literature will play a vital part in this area of the Lord's ministry. Already we are publishing various types of gospel literature for free distribution and follow-up. However repeating the printing is governed by our finances. Most people we are reaching and teaching have barely enough money for food and basic needs, so any financial help in this area of printing and publishing would be greatly appreciated.

All opportunities are grasped to raise up new believers with the plain teachings of the Word of God, and we have already published some Christian study books in the local Tamil and Kannada languages, but it is our great desire to translate and publish English books for Christian growth and Bible study materials especially from foreign authors, but to do this we need their permission and also financial support.

What we believe in agape bible fellowship churches

Agape Bible Fellowship has been formed as a fellowship of believers in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Our supreme desire is to know Christ and be conformed to His image by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are not a denominational Church, but we don't oppose denominations, we are concerned with their over-emphasis of the doctrinal differences that have led to the division of the Body of Christ.

We believe the only true basis of Christian fellowship is Christ's Agape love, which is greater than any differences we possess and without which we have no right to claim ourselves Christians.
We believe worship of God should be spiritual. Therefore, we remain flexible and yielded to the leading of the Holy Spirit to direct our worship.
We believe worship of God should be inspirational. Therefore, we give proper place to music in our worship.
We believe worship of God should be intelligent. Therefore, our services are designed with great emphasis upon the teaching of the Word of God that He might instruct us how He should be worshipped.
We believe worship of God should be fruitful. Therefore, we look for His love in our lives as the supreme manifestation that we have truly been worshipping Him.
We believe in THE APOSTLES CREED as the fundamental facts of Christian faith.
We believe in the inerrancy of Scripture, that the Bible, Old and New Testaments are the inspired, infallible Word of God.
We believe that God is eternally existent in three distinct persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe that God is the personal, transcendent, and sovereign Creator of all things.
We believe that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human, that He was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, provided for the atonement of our sins by His substitutionary death on the cross, was bodily raised from the dead, ascended back to the right hand of the Father, and ever lives to make intercession for us.
We believe in the personal, visible second coming of Jesus Christ to the earth.
After Jesus ascended to Heaven, He poured out His Holy Spirit on the believers in Jerusalem, enabling them to fulfill His command to preach the Gospel to the entire world, an obligation shared by all believers today.
We believe that all people are, by nature, separated from God and responsible for their own sin, but that salvation, redemption, and forgiveness are freely offered to all by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. When a person repents of sin and accepts Jesus Christ as personal Savior and Lord, trusting Him to save, that person is immediately born again and sealed by the Holy Spirit, all his | her sins are forgiven, and that person becomes a child of God, destined to spend eternity with the Lord.
We believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Scriptures, and that they are valid for today if they are exercised within the scriptural guidelines. We as believers are to covet the best gifts, seeking to exercise them in love that the whole Body of Christ might be edified. We believe that love is more important than the most spectacular gifts, and without this love all exercise of spiritual gifts is worthless.
   

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