Because we are all wounded and broken people in need of the healing power of God’s grace in Christ Jesus, and being aware of the confusion of voices pertaining to human sexuality, the following statement defines our common understanding for sexual behavior:

1. Victory Christian Fellowship and its affiliates affirms the biblical ethic of compassion, love and ministry to all sexually broken persons and the availability of God’s grace to all that repent.

Luke 5:30-32;

³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

³¹ Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

John 8:1-11;

¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

² At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³ The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴ and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶ They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷ When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

⁹ At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰ Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

¹¹ “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

1 Corinthians 6:11;

 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

• We affirm God’s gracious creation intent for both faithful lifelong heterosexual unions for married couples and for committed celibate behaviour for unmarried persons as the only biblical options for human sexual conduct. All other sexual unions are clearly identified in scripture as being sinful and destructive of persons.

Genesis 1:27;

So God created mankind in his own image,
    in the image of God he created them;
    male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:24;

 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

1Thess 4:3-8;

³ It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; ⁴ that each of you should learn to control your own body^[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, ⁵ not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; ⁶ and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.^[b] The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. ⁷ For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. ⁸ Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

Heb 13:4;

 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

• We affirm that all alternative sexual unions outside of heterosexual marriage including homosexual and/ or bisexual practices, adultery and fornication are sin. Such conduct calls for repentance and openness to the transforming power of God.

Lev 18:22;

Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

Lev 20:13;

If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Rom 1:18-32;

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

1 Cor 6:9-10;

⁹ Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men^{[a] 10} nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

• Therefore, Harvest centre fellowship and its affiliates will take leadership in supporting and resourcing church based ministries to sexually broken people including gay/ lesbian, bisexual persons which express the grace and love of God, which minister to human needs, and which offer God’s transforming grace to all, and further.
• Harvest centre fellowship and its affiliates will not recognize for ordination or recognize the pre-existing licence or ordination of any practicing adulterer, fornicator, gay/lesbian/ bisexual persons, or any person that affirms endorses and/or celebrates non-biblical practices such as those stipulated above and further.
• Harvest centre fellowship and its affiliates will not accept churches into fellowship who ordain or have in ministerial positions practicing adulterers, fornicators, gay/lesbians/ bisexual persons or those who affirm, endorse, or celebrate  non-biblical sexual practices such as those stipulated above, and further.
• Harvest centre fellowship and its affiliates will not accept churches into fellowship who ordain  or have in ministerial positions practicing adulterers, fornicators, gay/lesbians/bisexual persons or those who affirm, endorse, or celebrate  non-biblical sexual practices such as those stipulated above, and further.

Be it resolved, that any church affiliated with Harvest Centre Fellowship that endorses, celebrates, or affirms adultery, fornication, homosexual and/or bisexual practices, or  celebrates non biblical sexual practices will be given the opportunity to counsel with the Bishop and Harvest Centre Fellowship Executive Board members. Should any affiliate of Harvest Centre Fellowship choose to remain in a state of defiance to the biblical ethic agreed upon the bylaws and ordinances of Harvest Centre Fellowship, the affiliate will be indicating their desire to sever their relationship with Harvest Centre Fellowship and its affiliates and will be notified of this ministry’s acceptance and affirmation of the choice to end their relationship with Harvest Centre Fellowship.