About Us

The Finger Lakes Christadelphians have been meeting at our hall in Canoga, NY since 1993. Members of our congregation gather together to study the Bible, and encourage each other in the things concerning the gospel.

We believe that the entire Bible, consisting of both the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of God.  Within the Bible, we find His plan and purpose in creating the earth and mankind who inhabits it. The Bible gives the answer to both mankind’s origin and destiny.  

God has graciously put in motion a plan of salvation, a means of escape from the clutches of death which plagues all mankind.  Without this Hope, we all will die eternally. 

This Hope of salvation which God offers depends on a belief and acceptance of His requirements which He has explained in His Word, the Bible.  This is the “Good News,” or the gospel message. The Bible says the gospel is “the things concerning the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 8:12). 

Christadelphians believe that a proper Scriptural understanding of these principles and a public confession of them, through baptism into the name of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is necessary to attain the Hope of salvation.  

We look forward with great anticipation to the personal, literal return of Jesus Christ to the earth. He will raise to life baptized believers of all ages and judge them according to their works, whether good or bad. Those judged faithful will  be  given eternal life (immortality) in God’s Kingdom upon the earth.  God promised this kingdom to Abraham and David by covenant, and the kingdom will be a blessing to the whole earth.  Jesus Christ will rule as King. 

  • Our name simply means 'brethren in Christ', from the Greek words for Christ (Christos) and brothers (adelphoi).

    Colossians 1:2 -To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • The term ecclesia is a Greek word which means “called out assembly”. Typically Christadelphians use this term in replacement of the word “church” to describe the importance of the members of the congregation rather than the building itself.

    Acts 2:47  - Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church [ecclesia] daily such as should be saved. 

  • God was revealed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by angelic visitation and vision, and to Moses at the flaming bush and at Sinai, and manifested Himself in the Lord Jesus Christ, as the supreme self-existent Deity, the ONE FATHER, dwelling in unapproachable light, yet everywhere present by His Spirit. He has, by His power, created heaven and earth, and all that are in them.

    (Deut. 6:1; I Kings 8:30-39,43-49; I Chron. 29:11-14; II Chron. 16:9; Neh. 9:6; Job 9:4; 26:13; 28:24; 34:21; 36:5; Job 38,39 and 40; Psa. 33:13-14; 44:21; 62:11; 92:5; 94:9; 104:24; 123:1; 124:8; 139:7-11; 145:3; 146:6 147:4-5; 148:5; Prov. 15:3; Isa. 26:4; 28:29; 40:13-27; 43:10-12; 44:6-8; 45:5; 46:9-10; Jer.10:12-13; 23:24 27:5; 32:19,25; 51:15; Amos 9:2-3; Matt. 6:9; Mark 12:29-32; Acts 14:15; 17:24; 27-28; Rom. 16:27; I Cor. 8:4-6; Eph. 4:6; I Tim. 1:17; 2:5; 6:15-16).

  • We believe that God will set up a kingdom on the earth, which will overthrow all others, and change them into "the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ." God will send Jesus Christ personally to the earth at the close of the times of the Gentiles. The kingdom which he will establish will be the kingdom of Israel restored, in the territory promised for an everlasting possession to Abraham and his seed (Christ) by covenant.

    Dan. 2:44; 7:13-14; Isa. 11:9-10; 32:1,16; Rev. 11:15, Psa. 102:16,21; Dan. 7:13-14; Acts 1:9,11; 3:20-21; II Tim. 4:1)

  • We believe that the Scriptures are the only source of knowledge concerning God and His purposes, and that they were given wholly by the unerring inspiration of God in the writers. Any errors within the text have since crept in due to transcription or translation.
    (Neh. 9:30; Luke 1:70; John 10:35; I Cor. 2:13; 14:37; II Tim. 3:16; Heb. 1:1; II Peter 1:21).

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