DaySpring Christian Fellowship is a modern charismatic Christian Church committed to ministering in the Name of Jesus Christ to all people. Our worship expression is uncomplicated, contemporary and enthusiastic.
The Matthew Pearce Public School facility became available and we were invited to consider moving ourselves and become established with our Sunday services at the school. We met at Matthew Pearce Public School on the first weekend of February 1992, with a membership of about 45, and remained at the school until February 18, 1996. By then the church had grown to over 200 people.
On February 25, 1996 we met for the first time in our new facility at Unit 1, 10 Salisbury Rd., Castle Hill. The Church has sustained a steady and exciting growth during the years since and we now have a regular membership of about 1000 people including our children.
We are hoping that in the next year or two we will be able to locate and move to a place that will provide even better accommodation and facilities for the church and it's varied ministries.
To gather people into fellowship for the purpose of...
Relationship
To develop intimacy in our relationship with God to such a degree that
we consistently experience His healing, joyful, life-giving power.
Equipping
To train and equip an army of people whose lives are being transformed
to effectively heal and develop close relationships: first with God,
then with spouse and family, then with others who are around us.
Action
To consistently do the ministry of Jesus to others everywhere so that
hundreds, even thousands of are affected by the power of God. Our focus
area is the Northwest of Sydney, but we will extend our ministry to
where-ever there is a need that we feel that God is directing us to
address.
We Believe
that God is the Eternal King. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit,
perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From
all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons
of one substance, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, equal in
power and glory.
We Believe
that God's kingdom is everlasting. From His throne, through His eternal
Word, God created, upholds and governs all that exists: the heavenly
places, the angelic hosts, the universe, the earth, every living thing
and mankind. God created all things very good.
We Believe
that Satan, originally a great, good angel, rebelled against God,
taking a host of angels with him. He was cast out of God's presence
and, as a usurper of God's rule established a counter-kingdom of
darkness and evil on the earth.
We Believe
that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for
relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation
of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness
and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and
his demonic hosts gained access to God's creation. Creation now
experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human
beings are born in sin, subject to God's judgement of death and captive
to Satan's kingdom of darkness.
We Believe
that God did not abandon His rule over the earth which He continues to
uphold by His providence. In order to bring redemption, God established
covenants which revealed His grace to sinful people. In the covenant
with Abraham, God bound Himself to His people Israel, promising to
deliver them from bondage to sin and Satan and to bless all the nations
through them.
We Believe
that as King, God later redeemed His people by His mighty acts from
bondage in Egypt and established His covenant through Moses, revealing
His perfect will obligation to fulfill it. The law's purpose is to
order our fallen race and to make us conscious of our moral
responsibility. By the work of God's Spirit, it convicts us of our sin
and God?s righteous judgement against us and brings us to Christ alone
for salvation.
We Believe
that when Israel rejected God's rule over her as king, God established
the monarchy in Israel and made an unconditional covenant with David,
promising that his heir would restore God's kingdom reign over His
people as Messiah forever.
We Believe
that in the fullness of time, God honoured His covenants with Israel
and His prophetic promises of salvation by sending His only Son, Jesus,
into the world. Conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin
Mary, as fully God and fully man in one person, He is humanity as God
intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by
the Holy Spirit, inaugurating God's kingdom reign on earth,
overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the
good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and
raising the dead- Gathering His disciples, He reconstituted God's
people as His Church to be the instrument of His kingdom. After dying
for the sins of the world, Jesus was raised from the dead on the third
day, fulfilling the covenant of blessing given to Abraham.
In His sinless, perfect life Jesus met the demands of the law and in
His atoning death on the cross He took God's judgement for sin which we
deserve as lawbreakers. By His death on the cross He also disarmed the
demonic powers.
The covenant with David was fulfilled in Jesus? birth from David's
house, His Messianic ministry, His glorious resurrection from the dead,
His ascent into heaven and His present rule at the right hand of the
Father. As God's Son and David's heir, He is the eternal Messiah-King,
advancing God's reign throughout spiritual worship, personal
sanctification, building up the Church, gifting us for ministry, and
driving back the kingdom of Satan by the evangelisation of the world
through proclaiming the word of Jesus and doing the works of Jesus.
We Believe
that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Jesus Christ and that
he is our abiding Helper, Teacher, and Guide. We believe in the filling
or empowering of the Holy Spirit, often a conscious experience, for
ministry today. We believe in the present ministry of the Spirit and in
the exercise of all of the biblical gifts of the Spirit. We practise
the laying on of hands for the empowering of the Spirit, for healing,
and for recognition and empowering of those whom God has ordained to
lead and serve the Church.
We Believe
that the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of Holy Scripture so
that the Bible is without error in the original manuscripts. We receive
the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as our final,
absolute authority, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
We Believe
that the whole world is under the domination of Satan and that all
people are sinners by nature and choice. All people therefore are under
God's just judgment. Through the preaching of the Good News of Jesus
and the Kingdom of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, God
regenerates, justifies, adopts and sanctifies through Jesus by the
Spirit all who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord
and Saviour. By this they are released from Satan's domain and enter
into God's kingdom reign.
We Believe
in the one, holy, universal Church. All who repent of their sins and
confess Jesus as Lord and Saviour are regenerated by the Holy Spirit
and form the living Body of Christ, of which He is the head and all are
members.
We Believe
that Jesus Christ committed two ordinances to the Church: water baptism
and the Lord's Supper. Both are available to all believers.
We Believe
that God's kingdom has come in the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that it continues to come in the ministry of the Spirit through the
Church, and that it will be consummated in the glorious, visible and
triumphant appearing of Christ- His return to the earth as King. After
Christ returns to reign, He will bring about the final defeat of Satan
and all of his minions and works, the resurrection of the dead, the
final judgment and the eternal blessing of the righteous and eternal
conscious punishment of the wicked. Finally, God will be all in all and
His kingdom, His rule and reign, will be fulfilled in the new heavens
the new earth, recreated by His mighty power, in which righteousness
dwells and in the new heaven and new earth He will forever be
worshipped.
Our Aims
- To plant and grow a church, not limited in size, of active people who:
- Have a deep mature relationship with, and a passionate commitment, to Jesus Christ.
- Are trained in ministry skills and active in ministering to those in the church and in the community.
- Are reaching out to non-believers through honest, caring relationships, helping them come to know Jesus personally.
- To develop a culture-current style of ministry that effectively relates to the Australian secular person, their families, and all those who enjoy our style of ministry.
- To train and develop personnel who can be effective leaders, pastors and church planters.
- To plant churches primarily in the Hills District area of Sydney from Castle Hill to the Blue Mountains, and to plant churches throughout Australasia and the Pacific Rim countries.
- To pursue and demonstrate unity and respect with other churches in our city as well as in the body of Christ at large.
- To establish a network of Holy Spirit gifted ministries whose combined resources can be a means through which Jesus Christ is allowed to minister in deliverance, healing, teaching, training and in pastoral evangelism to the community around us.
Several attributes characterise the experience you have when you visit DaySpring:
