Our mission is to help people see God through the lense of relationship. Understanding God through relationship helps us know what He wants from us, his expectations, and His plans for us. In turn we get His support and backing through His Word, His blessing through the hands of people and His promises for us coming to past from the interwoven connections that happen through those relationships we develop along the way. Relationship Matters Ministries believes that through the practical teaching and application of God's Word, the hand in hand approach of fellowship, and the guidance of Pastors, brothers and sisters in a like minded community help achieve God purpose through relationship with us individually as well as corporately.
Sr. Pastor Steffon Coles
Pastor Steffon Coles has a vision to lead RMM in an unorthodox way. Always heard saying we have to go outside the walls. He leads RMM to become a church that will serve the community and spread the gospel of Jesus. Pastor Coles daily goes into the community to pray for anyone that needs it and feeds whomever is hungry. He believes that Pastors should be about change not just talk about.
Pastor Lardina is the Co Pastor of RMM and is the founder of The Empowered Women's Community. She also helps organize the outreach programs and mentors young women. She can be seen always helping others and smiling. Her vision is to see others healed and walk in their God given purpose.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is inCinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being. Exodus 24:4, Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19
God the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the Clow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ. He is fatherly in His attitude toward all men. Genesis 1:1, 2:7
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord. Psalms 2:7 Isaiah 7:14;53
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Saviour, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of Cinal redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service. Genesis 1:2 Judges 14:6
Man
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulCill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love. Genesis 1:26-30, 2:5-7
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justiCication, sanctiCication, and gloriCication. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God's grace whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and faith are inseparable experiences of grace.
Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Saviour.
JustiCication is God's gracious and full acquittal upon principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and believe in Christ. JustiCication brings the believer unto a relationship of peace and favor with God.
Sanctification is the experience, beginning in regeneration, by which the believer is set apart to God's purposes, and is enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual maturity through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in him. Growth in grace should continue throughout the regenerate person's life.
Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is the final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed. Genesis 3:15, Exodus 3:14-17
Family
The family is the first and most important classroom and training ground for society. The family provides the security, the heritage, and the perpetuation of morality without which no society can survive (Genesis 4:1-2; Ephesians 6:1-4).
Fellowship with God
Fellowship with God emphasizes the friendship relationship with God the Father and the Son. Sin breaks the fellowship; confession of sin restores the fellowship. When in fellowship with God, believers partner with God in service and enjoy a close friendship. The central passages are 1 John 1 and John 13. Since one is no longer walking in darkness (sin), the Holy Spirit also leads and controls the believer as Galatians 5 teaches. John 15:1-9 uses the term “abide” which also refers to fellowship with Jesus Christ.
We serve and worship a living relational God. Who's excited about our relationship with Him. He is a loving God of healing and restoration. Our goal is to foster an atmosphere of healing, love, safety and freedom to be what God has purposed you to be. We would love for you to experience that and more with us.
To embrace God and everything He is in the word of God through Partnerships/Relationships in our Community.
We can not say we love our neighbors and not be apart of our community. Our Ministry is design to go beyond the four walls of our building. We want you to experience God's love with us and be apart of our family, where your relationship with us matters.
We want to be characterized by our love. Jesus said, “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). We want you to embrace what love does not just what is. Agape love is active, not abstract or passive. It does not simply feel patient. It is patient! It practices patience. It does not simply have kind feelings. It does kind things.
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