Golgotha Church on the Rock is a non-profit para-church organization that works alongside the local assembly to develop the saints and evangelize the world for Jesus Christ through Orthodox Christian teaching and charismatic worship.

Goal of the Ministry: The goal of this ministry is to become an established church body between 2006-2007, named Golgotha Church on the Rock. This church will be instrumental in reforming the inner-city communities through outreach and Christian service. Emphasis will be placed on the preaching and teaching of the word of God with power and demonstration, I Thessalonians 1:5,9. We are aiming to show all believers that the Spirit filled life is the normal life of the believer and the will of God. The long-term goal of the ministry is to plant churches abroad within three (3) to five (5) years of the inception of the ministry to fulfill the Lord’s commission, Matthews 28:18.

What does the word Golgotha mean?

The word Golgotha means “place of the skull”, the mountain where our Lord was crucified, Matthews 27:33, Mark 15:22, Luke 23:33, John 19:17. Hebrew word is Gulgogoleth, Judges 9:53 and II Kings 9:35. Golgotha is the Aramaic translation of the latin word calvaria, where we get our English word Calvary from.

The term “Church of the Rock” is taken from Matthew 16:13-18, where our Lord Jesus is speaking to Peter and tells him that, “His church will be built on the confession of Jesus being the Son of the living God” and “Jesus is the Rock of our salvation”, I Peter 2:4-8, Ephesians 2:20, I Corinthians 10:4.

Golgotha Church on the Rock is of the Protestant Christian persuasion. As Protestants we follow the great movement called the Protestant Reformation, where Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five (95) thesis to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. We have a Protestant-Reform understanding of Christendom explained in these five latin terms:

1.      Sola fide (Faith alone)

2.      Sola gratia (Grace alone)

3.      Solus Christus (Christ alone)

4.      Soli Deo Gloria (To God only the glory)

5.      Sola scriptura (Scripture alone)

We are Evangelical,  meaning that we believe that teaching and preaching of these five principles mentioned above was the recovery of the Evangel (Gospel) and Apostolic Doctrine. These are the foundational teachings in the Ministry of the great men like  Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards and John Wesley. The key element in Evangelical Christianity is the Sola Faith, meaning that we believe that  men are justified faith alone. The view that Evangelic Christian is the faith not only necessary for salvation, but  Faith alone is sufficient for salvation. 

Golgotha Church on the Rock holds a charismatic/Pentecostal view of Pneumatology (doctrine of the Holy Spirit). We are charismatic in the sense that we teach the perpetuity of Spiritual gifts, meaning that all charismatic gifts continued throughout the history of the Church and are a vital part of a rich worship experience and a well balanced Christian. This paradigm is based on the teaching of scripture, primarily and secondarily the testimony of the church throughout the centuries. Scripture references are I Corinthians 13, Romans 1:11, Acts 2:38-39, I Corinthians 14:39-40, I Thessalonians 5:19-20.

Here are some the church leaders that testified of the existence of charismatic gifts throughout the history of the church:

Clement of Rome (died 100?) reminded the Corinthians that "a full outpouring of the Holy Spirit was upon you all."

Ignatius (died 107?) wrote to the church at Smyrna: "Ignatius… to the Church of God the Father, and of the beloved Jesus Christ, which has through mercy obtained every kind of gift, which is filled with faith and love, and is deficient in no gift, most worthy of God, and adorned with holiness… Be ye strong, I pray, in the power of the Holy Ghost." He also admonished Polycarp to pray so that he might "be wanting in nothing, and… abound in every gift."

The Didache says, "For the Father desireth that the gifts be given to all" and also describes prophets who speak "in the Spirit."

Justin Martyr wrote, "For the prophetical gifts remain with us, even to the present time… Now it is possible to see amongst us women and men who possess gifts of the Spirit of God."

Irenaeus (130?-202?), Bishop of Lyons, wrote, "Those who are in truth His disciples, receiving grace from Him, do in His name perform (miracles). It is not possible to name the numbers of the gifts which the Church (scattered) throughout the whole world, has received from God, in the name of Jesus Christ." He taught the necessity of receiving the Spirit and specifically described speaking in tongues as evidence of the Spirit:

"The perfect man consists in the commingling and the union of the soul receiving the spirit of the Father… For this reason does the apostle declare, 'We speak wisdom among them that are perfect,' terming those persons 'perfect' who have received the Spirit of God, and who through the Spirit of God do speak in all languages, as he used himself also to speak. In like manner we do also hear many brethren in the Church, who possess prophetic gifts, and who through the Spirit speak all kinds of languages… whom also the apostle terms 'spiritual,' they being spiritual because they partake of the Spirit."

Celsus, a pagan, wrote near the end of the second century that Christians in his day spoke in tongues.

The theologian Origen (died 254?) preserved his testimony without denying the existence and validity of tongues, and accepted the gifts of the Spirit for his day

Tertullian wrote against the heretic Marcion shortly after A.D. 200: "[T]he Creator promised the gift of His Spirit in the latter days; and… Christ has in these last days appeared as the dispenser of spiritual gifts."Tertullian specifically mentioned the gift of tongues and quoted I Corinthians 12:8-11 and Isaiah 28:11 as applicable in his day. He regarded speaking in tongues as one of the marks of a true church:

"Let Marcion then exhibit, as gifts of his god, some prophets, such as have not spoken by human sense, but with the Spirit of God… let him produce a psalm, a vision, a prayer - only let it be by the Spirit, in an ecstasy, that is, in a rapture, whenever an interpretation of tongues has occurred to him… Now all these signs (of spiritual gifts) are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty." [

Novatian (died 257?), a presbyter in Rome, wrote about the Holy Spirit:

"This is He who places prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, directs tongues, gives powers and healings, does wonderful works, offers discrimination of spirits, affords powers of government, suggests counsels, and orders and arranges whatever other gifts there are of charismata ; and thus makes the Lord's Church everywhere, and in all, perfected and completed.

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This position was also held by many of the great reformers. We understand that the Bible declares that God’s nature is immutable. The same way God was unchanging towards the Jews, He is also the same way with the church, “God’s gifts and talents are given without repentance”, Romans 11:29.

We embrace Pentecostalism as the normative experience of the first century Church and is also applicable to modern day Christians. We also align ourselves with the great Pentecostal revival that swept through the nation in the world starting in 1901 in Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas, under the late Charles Fox Parham and spreading to Azusa Street, Los Angeles in 1906 under J.W. Seymour.  This experience is mentioned in scripture commonly called the infilling or baptism of the Holy Spirit which is accompanied by the initial evidence of speaking in tongues, Acts 2:4, 10:46, 19:6. Scripture teaches that the Spirit filled life is God’s will for all His children, that they might be established until the end, Ephesians 5:17-18, Romans 1:11.