Who We Are
Dienstye
CHURCH SERVICES
Sunday Morning: 09:00 (Afr)
Sunday Morning: 11:15 (Eng)
Sunday Evening: 18:00 (Eng)

Founders
Nevil & Rina Norden
CHILDREN'S CHURCH SERVICES (Kruis-Kidz)
Sunday Morning: 09:00 (Afr)
Sunday Morning: 11:15 (Eng)
Sunday Evening: 18:00 (Bilingual)
(Not during school holidays)

Shepherds Couple: Children
Leon & Jackie Kotze
Dienstye
TEEN'S CHURCH SERVICES (Plantasie)
Sunday Morning: 09:00 (Afr)
Sunday Morning: 11:15 (Eng)

FOUNDERS
Nevil & Rina Norden
“Can a nation come back to God?” Your answer determines your involvement! Since the birth of Living Word in 1986, it has been Nevil and Rina’s desire that Living Word will be and will remain a true renewal congregation.
This means that we will be one of the congregations where Christianity will again be experienced as dynamic in the book of Acts (Acts 3:19; Acts 2: 42-46) – dynamically, liberating, and lovingly convincing society for Jesus! The Bride of Christ must begin to rule everywhere with Jesus, the Bridegroom, from heavenly places.
It was not possible before, because the ministry of apostle, prophet, evangelist, shepherd and teacher was not fully restored (Eph. 4: 11-14). Also, the process of discipleship was not thoroughly in place. We believe that we are part of God’s answer for Pretoria / Tshwane, South Africa and internationally.
Our ministry is aimed at raising your spirit, soul and body (1 Thess. 5:23) so that you will live up to your creative purpose. It is my desire to truly make people hungry for the Living Word of God and to see that the Word grows with power. (Acts 19:20)
– Nevil Norden
MANDATE STATEMENT
“Can a nation come back to God? Your answer determines your involvement.”
The strategic alignment of LW in the body of Christ is based upon our mandate and vision. We achieve our mandate through the process of discipleship: win, establish, equip and send.
VISION STATEMENT
“The establishing of a loving, Word-founded Kingdom community.”
The vision defines and describes the purpose and function of Living Word in the body of Christ as God sees it.
(Matt. 6:10; Matt. 28:19-20; Matt. 6:33; 1 Pet. 1:22; 1 Joh. 3:11; 1 Joh. 4:7, 11-12; Luk. 17:21; Joh. 13:34-35, 15:12; Heb. 4:12; Isa. 55:11; 1 Joh. 2:5; 2 Tim. 2:15; 2 Tim. 3:16-17; Heb. 10:24-25; Acts 2:1; Col. 3:14)
MISSION STATEMENT
“To become a passionate doer of God’s Word.”
Jesus calls us to follow in His footsteps and become fishers of men (Matt. 4:19; Mark 1:17)(Luke 9:23; Matt. 16:24-26).These fish need to be caught (‘win’), cleaned (‘establish’), prepared (‘equip’) and made available as food (‘send’).
(Matt. 7:24-27; Luk. 6:46-49; Jam. 1:23-25; Ps. 119:103, 105; Joh. 14:15, 21-24; Joh. 15:10-14; 1 Joh. 2:3-5; 1 Joh. 4:20-21; 1 Joh. 5:2-3; Isa. 55:10-11)
CREED
We believe in one God who exists forever as three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, the sixty-six canonical books of the Bible, in their original writing as fully inspired of God, and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
(2 Tim. 3:15-16; 2 Pet. 1:20-21; Heb. 1:1-2; Joh. 8:31-32; 1 Thess. 2:13; Ps. 119:9-11, 89, 105, 2 Pet. 3:15-17)
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
(Gen. 1:1, 26; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Joh. 14:16)
We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and true man. He lived a sinless life.
(Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18, 23; 1 Pet. 2:22; 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 4:15; Phil 2:6-11; John 1:14, 16:28; 17:4-5; Heb. 2:17-18)
We believe that man was created in God's image, but by man's transgression, he became separated from God. All who reach the age of accountability are responsible for their sinful deeds.
(Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:1-24; Rom. 3:10, 12, 23; Joh. 3:3)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins a substitutionary sacrifice, according to the Scriptures, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
(Joh. 3:16-19; Rom. 4:25; Rom. 5:8; 1 Cor. 15:3-4; 1 Tim. 2:5-6; Eph. 2:8-9; Titus 3:5; 1 Pet. 1:18-19)
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
(Matt. 28; Mark. 16:9-11; Luk. 9:22; Luk. 24:36-40; Joh. 20 & 21; Mark 16:19-20; Luk. 24:36-53; Acts 1:6-12; 1 Tim. 3:16; 1 Cor. 15:3-8; 1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 10:10-12; 1 Joh. 2:1; Heb. 8:6; Rom. 8:34; Heb. 5:1-10)
We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ
Acts 1:11; Rev. 1:7; Matt. 24:30; Mark 13:26; Joh. 14:3; 1 Thess. 1:10; 4:16-17; 2 Thess. 1:7; Joh. 14:18; 2 Pet. 3:3-10)
We believe that all who repent of their sin and receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
(Joh. 1:12; Joh. 3:16; Rom. 3:20-24; 5:8-10; 2 Cor. 5:19-21; Gal. 3:26; 1 Joh. 5:12-13; Acts 2:38; 1 Joh. 1:9; Acts 16:3-31)
We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.
(Acts 1:8; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 12:7-13; Gal. 4:6; Joh. 15:26; Joh. 16:7; Rom. 5:5; Rom. 8:9; 2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 2:1; Eph. 4:11-13)
We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
(Joh. 5:28-29; Rom. 8:11; 1 Cor. 6:14; 15:51-54; Phil. 3:20-21; 2 Cor. 4:14; Matt. 25:40-46; Mark 9:44, 46, 48-49; 2 Thess. 1:9; Rev. 20:12-17)
We believe in the principle of the visionary leader of a congregation/ministry as the appointed leader by God functioning together with a plurality of leadership. The visionary leader is the primus inter parus ("first among equals"). Plurality of leadership, consisting of the visionary leader together with appointed elders, provides for the necessary checks and balances for healthy leadership.
(Eph. 4:11; 1 Thess. 5:12-13; Acts 11:30; Acts 14:23; Acts 15:28; Tit. 1:5; Jam. 5:14; 1 Pet. 5:1-5; 1 Cor. 16:15-16; Prov. 15:22; Heb. 13:17)
We believe that church leadership carries the responsibility for oversight and care of members. Where necessary, church leadership must carry out biblical discipline for the protection of the local church.
(Heb. 13:17; Gal. 6:1; Heb. 12:10-11; Jam. 5:20; 2 Tim. 2:24-25; Matt. 18:15-17; Tit. 3:10-11; 1 Cor. 5)
We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take its character from this conception of the Church and therefore, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of church membership.
(1 Cor. 3:16; 1 Pet. 2:4-9; Eph. 1:23; 1 Cor. 12:12-13; 1 Tim. 3:15; Eph. 2:20-21; Joh. 3:3; Rom. 10:9-11, Acts 2.42)
We believe in the principle of heterosexual relationships between a natural man and a natural woman within the confines of lawful matrimony.
(Gen. 1:26-27; Matt. 19:4‑6; Lev. 18:22; Rom. 1:24‑27; 1 Cor. 6:9‑11; 1 Cor. 7:2; Heb. 13:4, Gen. 2:21-25)
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – baptism in water and the Lord's Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith; that Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in His burial and resurrection and that the Lord's Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Saviour's broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.
(Matt. 28:19-20; Rom. 6:3-4;
Acts 2:38, 41-42, 8:12, 26-39, 22:16; Matt. 26:26-28; 1 Cor. 11:23-26)
We believe that divine healing was provided for in the Old Testament and is an integral part of the Gospel.
(Isa. 53:4-5; Matt. 8:16-17; Mark 16:18; Acts 10:38, 28:8; 1 Cor. 12:4; Jam. 5:14-15; 1 Pet. 2:24; Ps. 103:3; Heb. 13:8)
We believe the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and continuing until the consummation of salvation.
(Heb. 12:14; 1 Thess. 5:23; 2 Thess. 2:13; 2 Pet.3:18; 2 Cor. 3:18; Phil. 3:12-14; 1 Cor. 1:30; Eph. 5:26; Joh. 17:17)
The church is open to any truth, which the Holy Spirit may illuminate from the Scriptures. We believe the Holy Spirit’s revelation will not contradict established Biblical truth and values and will be in line with the character of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
(2 Tim. 3:16-17; Heb. 13:8; 1 Cor. 2:9, 4:6; Joh. 14:6, 26; 16:12-14; Mal. 3:6)
CORE VALUES OF
LIVING WORD
LOVE AND GRACE
We will at all times reveal God's attitude of love and mercy to all people.
UNITY
We are constantly committed to maintaining mutual Divine unity and avoiding and resisting anything that promotes discord and division.
COMMITMENT
We give our complete dedication and faithfulness to the vision, mission and core values of Living Word.
RESPECT
We regard every person as created in the image of God and believe that unconditional love and respect should be shown to them, regardless of their gender and cultural or social status.
SERVICE FITNESS
In everything we do, we display an attitude of humility and service.
INTEGRITY
We will at all times walk in honesty, sincerity and integrity with regard to our relationships, finances, time, resources and responsibilities.