Know what you believe, and why

We believe that the Most High rules over all creation, all nations, all kingdoms, all rulers, all institutions, all generations, and all human affairs. His throne is established in the heavens, His Kingdom rules over all, His counsel stands, and His dominion is everlasting. No throne, power, ruler, nation, system, culture, economy, technology, or territory is outside His authority.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• confesses that God is King over all the earth.
• teaches that human authority is accountable to divine authority.
• prays, serves, and builds with the fear of the Lord.
• bears witness that the living must know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men.

We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, Savior, King, Head of the Church, ruler of the kings of the earth, firstborn from the dead, image of the invisible God, heir of all things, and the One in whom all things consist. He is to be known, obeyed, proclaimed, worshiped, and glorified in all things.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• exalts Christ above every name, gift, leader, platform, and institution.
• proclaims Jesus as Savior and Lord, not merely as teacher, example, prophet, or helper.
• calls people to the obedience of faith under His Lordship.
• measures ministry fruit by whether Christ is made known, obeyed, and glorified.

We believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God and the final authority for doctrine, faith, worship, holiness, discipleship, leadership, ministry, family, ethics, and obedience. The Scriptures are profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness, that the servant of God may be complete and furnished unto every good work.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• submits every teaching, prophecy, practice, structure, and decision to Scripture.
• teaches the whole counsel of God and rightly handles the Word of truth.
• rejects deception, error, compromise, and doctrine that does not agree with the truth of Christ.
• forms disciples whose minds, affections, conduct, and calling are governed by the Word of God.

We believe that salvation, forgiveness, redemption, deliverance, eternal life, and entrance into the Kingdom of God come only through repentance and salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Through His blood, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and intercession, people are delivered from darkness and translated into the Kingdom of the Son of God.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• proclaims the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ as central.
• calls sinners to repentance, faith, forgiveness, and new birth.
• ministers deliverance from darkness by the authority of Jesus Christ.
• teaches that salvation is by grace through faith, unto good works prepared by God.

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth who reveals Christ, convicts the world, regenerates believers, sanctifies the people of God, empowers effective witnesses, produces holy character, guides the Church, and glorifies Jesus. The work of Watch Altars must be carried by the Spirit and not by flesh.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• seeks intimate fellowship with the Holy Spirit.
• depends on the Spirit for witness, wisdom, discernment, boldness, and power.
• nurtures the fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit in holiness, and according to the biblical order.

We believe that the Kingdom of God is the reign and rule of God revealed in Jesus Christ, proclaimed through the Gospel, demonstrated by the Holy Spirit, and embodied through righteousness, peace, joy, obedience, justice, mercy, truth, love, and power. The Kingdom is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• proclaims the Gospel of the Kingdom in obedience to Christ.
• teaches believers to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
• demonstrates the Kingdom through Spirit empowered witness, holiness, healing, deliverance, good works, and obedience.
• bears witness that the kingdoms of this world belong to our Lord and to His Christ.

We believe that God calls His people to be holy, set apart, pure, obedient, humble, watchful, and fully yielded to Him. Those who bear the name of the Lord must depart from iniquity and become vessels unto honor, sanctified and fit for the Master's use, prepared unto every good work.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• calls believers to present their bodies as living sacrifices.
• teaches purity, humility, repentance, discipline, and the fear of the Lord.
• refuses to separate gifts from character or power from holiness.
• cultivates consecrated lives, homes, ministries, and leaders.

We believe that the righteous live by faith, and true faith is expressed through obedience to Jesus Christ. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God, receives the promises of God, trusts the character of God, acts upon the command of God, and works by love.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• teaches believers to live by faith and not by sight.
• calls people to hear and do the Word of Christ.
• trains disciples to obey in secret and in public, in spiritual life and in daily work.
• recognizes that obedience is evidence of love for Jesus.

We believe that the Church is the body of Christ, the household of God, the pillar and ground of the truth, a holy temple in the Lord, and the people sent to make disciples of all nations. Disciples are formed by the Word, the Spirit, fellowship, prayer, correction, service, obedience, and love.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• builds disciples, not audiences.
• teaches obedience to everything Christ commanded.
• equips saints for the work of ministry and the edifying of the body of Christ.
• multiplies faithful people who are able to teach others also.

We believe that God's people are a royal priesthood called to minister to the Lord through worship, prayer, intercession, thanksgiving, spiritual sacrifice, and surrendered lives. Prayer and worship are not merely ministry activities. They are priestly expressions of a people given to God.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• keeps watch before God in prayer and intercession.
• ministers to the Lord through worship in spirit and truth.
• cultivates spiritual altars in lives, homes, campuses, cities, and nations.
• teaches that the fire upon the altar must be kept burning before the Lord.

We believe that the rule of God results in righteousness, mercy, compassion, truth, justice, and good works. Those who have been redeemed by Christ are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, zealous for good works, and called to let their light shine before men that the Father may be glorified.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• practices good works as fruit, not as replacement for the Gospel.
• serves people with compassion, generosity, righteousness, and faithfulness.
• cares for the vulnerable, strengthens the weak, and seeks the good of people.
• teaches believers to glorify the Father through visible obedience and good works.

We believe that God's purpose is that all nations, peoples, tribes, tongues, families, and generations know Him, worship Him, and come under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Therefore, Watch Altars:

• prays, sends, goes, teaches, plants, and multiplies for the sake of nations and generations.
• bears witness from local places to the ends of the earth.
• seeks the worship of Jesus among every people and sphere of life.
• lives for the knowledge of the glory of the Lord in all the earth.