All for His Kingdom
MISSION
VISION
As The Oasis, we aim to be a church where people can experience God's presence.
A place where people can come to know God's existence and taste and see the goodness of His nature.
As The Oasis, we aim to be a church where people can experience God's power.
A place where people can experience healing and restoration of their soul and body by God's power.
As The Oasis, we aim to be a church where people receive salvation.
A place where people can know and believe salvation through Jesus, and receive eternal life.
As The Oasis, we aim to be a church where people become prosperous.
To become people who experience blessing and prosperity based on the gospel in every aspect of their lives.
As The Oasis, we aim to be a church that builds and extends God's Kingdom on Earth.
To become people who are an oasis, build oasis-like communities, and extend them.
All for His Kingdom
"All for His Kingdom" is the motto of our church. The Kingdom of God is like an oasis that gives life in the desert. Through sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ, we aim to spread God's Kingdom in Japan and around the world by building an oasis-like church that brings life, peace, and restoration to people's hearts and to our communities.
Lead Pastors: Katsumi and Angela Sunaga
VALUES
Proper Understanding of the Gospel
To create an oasis, we believe it is crucial to have a correct understanding of the gospel of Jesus. Our motto is "to preach the gospel that Jesus preached, and preach Jesus that the gospel preached."
Perfection of the Church
God's oasis is best expressed by the Church, which is the body of Christ. To create a spiritual oasis on earth, the local churches first need to be healthy and grow toward maturity and perfection.
Restoration of Israel
God's Kingdom on earth cannot be realized without the salvation of the Jewish people. To execute the Great Commission and bring the heavenly oasis to earth, we need to honor the divine order of preaching the gospel "to the Jew first" (Romans 1:16).
BELIEFS
The Presence of God
In the Bible, the word "presence" is used when a higher being appears to someone lower. It means that the invisible God of the universe shows His existence to humanity and allows us to experience His greatness, such as His love, joy, peace, wisdom, and truth, through our five senses. The Bible also uses phrases like "encounter with God" or "I met the Lord."
Moses said, "Please show me your glory."
And the Lord said, "My presence will go with you, and I will cause all my goodness to pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord to you."
Exodus 33:14-19
The Power of God
God not only loves us but also shows His power for us. In particular, He uses His power to heal our emotional or mental illnesses, as well as our physical limitations and diseases. He also works miracles to save us from trials that are beyond our control. The Bible also describes these miracles as "wonders and signs," in other words, the proofs of His love towards us.
The whole crowd was trying to get hold of Jesus, for the great power was coming out of him and healing them all.
Luke 6:19
Salvation
The root cause of human suffering is the existence of sin. Through Jesus' death on the cross, God has forgiven our sins and completely removed them. Not only that, but God has given us His Spirit, making us His children. As a result, we can once again have an unhindered relationship of love with God. The Bible describes this as being reconciled to God.
For if we have been reconciled to God through the death of his Son, Jesus Christ, how much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by the life of his Son.
Romans 5:10
Prosperous Life
God desires for us to be His representatives on earth. Because He is glorious and prosperous in heaven, His children, likewise, can prosper and live successfully on earth. He will cause our lives to flourish in the areas of our health, finances, careers, relationships, and more so that we may represent on earth our glorious heavenly Father.
Let them shout for joy and be glad, and let them continually say, "Great is the Lord, who takes delight in the prosperity of his people."
Psalm 35:27
The Kingdom of God
God's plan for saving mankind is to restore His Kingdom, where God and man abide together in unity again. The Kingdom of God is a place where God rules and where everything is governed by His love, righteousness, joy, and peace. One of the missions given to Christians on this earth, polluted with sin, is to create and expand such a place of God's dominion, which is full of life and holiness.
For your Heavenly Father will gladly give you the Kingdom.
Luke 12:32
For the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:17
The Gospel of Jesus
The gospel of Jesus is the good news about what Jesus did. It is the news about what Jesus accomplished while He was alive, His death on the cross, and His rising from the dead. It is the message of how Jesus fulfilled God's plan to save us from sin, to reconcile us to God, and to live with us forever. It is not a message about what man must do. We try to understand the gospel by placing heavy emphasis on what Jesus did for us, rather than on what we must do for Him.
The Church
The Church is God's best and highest vessel for accomplishing His plan on earth. Jesus returned to heaven after fulfilling God's will on the cross, but he left His body, the Church, behind. So, the body of Christ, the Church, must continue to carry out the work Jesus did on earth. When God's Kingdom is manifested in and through the Church to its maximum potential and maturity in both character and in charisma, then, Jesus' ministry comes to completion on earth.
Salvation of the Jews
Since the time of Abraham, God has made covenants (Old Testament) with Israel. Even the New Covenant through the cross was first made with Jewish disciples. It expanded to include us Gentiles, and salvation was extended to us. The first church in the world was also born only of Jews. If God's plan depends on the church and if we seek to perfect the Church, it is essential that the original members, the Jews, are saved and restored to the Church. We work to see the unity of Jewish and Gentile believers to restore and complete the Kingdom of God.