OUR 5 FOLD PRUPOSE
At the Orange Co. House of Prayer, the sermons are simple, the worship is powerful, and the people are hungry. Come and experience Christ's freedom to the fullest.

1.         THE PURPOSE OF WORSHIP

·        Our first purpose here at the Orange County House of Prayer is to worship.

·        Our purpose is to teach the importance and the principles of being a worshipper of God.

·        In. John 4:23 Jesus says, “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”

·        John 9:31 says, “We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.” 

·        Matt. 4:10 “Worship the Lord you god and serve Him only.” Notice this passage of scripture, which comes first: worship or service?

·        Sometimes we get so busy serving or working for God we don’t take time to love Him through our Worship.

·        Our purpose here at the Orange County House of Prayer is to celebrate the presence of God in every day life and to magnify His name in our worship.

2.         SHOW HOSPITALITY

Our second purpose is to “Love your neighbor as yourself.”  Share in God’s love by ministering to the hurts and needs in the lives of our neighbors. 

·        The Orange County House of Prayer is more than a church it’s a hospital.  It’s a place where we invite the broken-hearted, the lame, the spiritually blind, and the captive, to come be set free by the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

·        In. Matt. 9:12 Jesus says, “They that be whole have no need of a physician, but those that are sick do.”

    3. PURPOSE OF EVANGELISM

In the Great Commission Jesus said to “Go and make disciples”.  You have been given the Purpose of Evangelism. 

·        Matt. 22:9 says, “God into the highways and the hedges and compel them to come in.”

·        Our purpose is to communicate God’s Word to the lost.  Whether it be through the outreach for children, adults, or music ministry, family ministry, prayer classes, or our “Takin’ it to the Streets Festival”, Unchained Ministries, etc. etc. etc. 

·        It’s Christianity in action!  It’s to sow and to plant the seed of God’s Word to win the lost.

4.    BAPTISM

Jesus continues to say… “Baptizing them”.

Baptism is a symbolic act, whereby the believer acknowledges the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  More importantly, it’s an open confession of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in saying, “I am one of His!”

·        Being a Christian is more than believing, it’s also a matter of belonging.

·        When you are baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus you have taken the Lord’s name in marriage and you are bought into the family of God and into the fellowship of His church, and you are now His bride!

·        We’ve been given the purpose of fellowship. 

·        Eph. 2:19 (TLB) “Therefore, you are no longer outsiders, or strangers, but you are fellow citizens with God’s family….you are a part of God’s household.”

5.   PURPOSE OF DISCIPLESHIP

Jesus finished the Great Commission with “Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.”

·        II Tim. 3:16-17 says, “All scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that men or women of God may be perfect or mature, thoroughly furnished to do good works.”

·        We are to educate, edify, and teach God’s Word bringing all believers into the maturity of Jesus Christ.  We should do as James 1:22-25 says, “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror 24and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.”