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Greenville, SC
USA

864-230-1724

The Dwelling Place (renamed from Three Streams Mission) is an Evangelical, Spirit-filled, Anglican Church located in Greer, SC. In order to maintain a biblical spiritual covering and affiliation, we are an outreach parish of the Anglican Church of Tanzania - Diocese of Biharamulo.

Our Beliefs

Nicene Creed and Basic Doctrinal Truths

We believe the foundational truths summarized in the Nicene Creed.

  • God is a Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

  • Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. He is  fully God and fully man. He is Savior and Lord.

  • Christ became man and was born of the Virgin Mary.

  • Christ suffered and died in atonement for our sins

  • Christ was bodily resurrected and ascended to heaven

  • The Church is One, holy, catholic and apostolic

We believe in salvation by grace through faith in Christ

Authority of Scripture

  • We believe that Scripture, both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, is the Word of God. The human authors of the Bible were under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and this same Holy Spirit ensured that all that Scripture was recorded without error.

  • Pastor Bob and Pastor Mike, as Anglican presbyters/priests, hold to the 39 Articles of Religion as a biblically based summation of Christian doctrine. However, neither the elders nor the members of Three Streams are bound to theologically agree with all of the 39 articles.

  • We accept the doctrinal clarifications of the early ecumenical councils and value the wisdom of the Church Fathers.

The Community of Faith (The Church)

  • We accept as fellow Christians all who have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, regardless of Christian denomination

  • We seek to live a common life of fellowship with one another and God, gathering often for prayer, encouragement, and celebrating the joys and struggles of life.

  • Pastor Bob and Pastor Mike are part of the historical and biblically founded threefold ministry of bishop (overseer), presbyter (priest) and deacon. We also embrace the fivefold ministry offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher (Eph 4:10).

Worship, Sacraments and Liturgy

  • As protestant Christians we recognize the two Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist (Communion). We also value other Christian rites through which God imparts grace; marriage, ordination, confirmation, confession of sin, and anointing of the sick.

  • We are a relatively non-liturgical church, although we are passionate regarding incorporation of the celebration of Communion into our primary worship gatherings.

  • We welcome the moving of the Holy Spirit as we gather, seeking always to follow His lead as He quickens the revealed word and awakens our minds, hearts, and spirits.

  • We encourage the orderly exercise of spiritual gifts by the gathered believers.

  • We believe God created praise and worship, expressed with voices, clapping, hands raised, and musical instruments,  as a habitation for His glory and Presence.

  • We believe we are invited before the very throne of God to ask in prayer from a loving Father who delights to answer whatever we ask in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Our prayer includes worship and adoration, intercession and supplication, times of confession of our sins and offenses, spiritual warfare against evil, times of listening to hear His voice, and times of soaking in His Presence.

Discipleship

  • Being a Christian is not membership in a club. God desires for each of us to be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ, into the glorious and sacred masterpiece He designed us to become.

  • We seek to provide solid, orthodox and relevant teaching of the Word of God for the equipping of the saints.

  • We exhort and equip everyone in our community to learn how to hear and recognize God's voice themselves.

  • We believe in the priesthood of all believers, where each one discovers and is released in the use of their spiritual gifts for the building up of the Body of Christ.

  • We believe that all believers have the Holy Spirit and that there is a deeper release of the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit offered by the Lord.

Outreach

Like ancient Celtic church, we welcome into our midst those who have not yet come to faith but are being drawn by the Holy Spirit. Although their lives do not yet conform with a biblical lifestyle and worldview, they are accepted without condemnation. We are glad to have them dwell among us in order to see the grace of God bringing meaning to life and transform them with the "beauty of holiness". We are patient with their brokenness as we recognize that we too are broken and in need of transformation. We trust the Holy Spirit to plant a hunger for salvation and sanctification in every heart and then provide the transforming power. 

Mercy and Compassion

We live in the midst of a culture that has lost its way, descending into despair and moral collapse. All around us are multitudes struggling through life, with financial difficulties, crises in relationships,  addictions, health issues and loneliness. We bring the love of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the laying down of our lives that the Kingdom of God might break into the darkness. This ministry includes practical manifestations of compassion toward physical needs, as well as bringing to bear the power of the Holy Spirit to destroy the strongholds of evil. With the weapons of intercessory prayer, sincere love, fervent faith, prayers of blessing, forgiveness, and godly counsel we come alongside the suffering, compelled by the love of Christ.