New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church at the Cathedral

A predominately African-American Christian congregation, intentionally accepting, affirming and welcoming, which seeks to encourage spiritual maturity, educational and professional attainability, intellectual stimulation, spiritual, physical and emotional well-being, and social engagement and responsibility for its congregants and the broader local and global communities, New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church is a ministry committed to proclaiming and living out a holistic gospel of liberation, restoration, healing, and empowerment. We welcome all persons, regardless of ethnic heritage, religious backgrounds, etc. We are proud to embrace and celebrate diversity. As a Reconciling in Christ congregation, we also welcome members of the LGBQT community, and are privileged to perform wedding ceremonies in accordance with New Jersey and federal laws.

The worship, with a blend of traditional and contemporary elements, is dynamic, exuberant, and high-Spirited. The preaching is Christ-centered, biblically-based, theologically sound, homiletically, and hermeneutically proficient, and charismatically appealing. The atmosphere is warm and inviting. Come once and you will be back again!

Through and by active engagement with the Holy Spirit, we seek to discover and embrace Divine Truth, which formulates a foundation for a more simplistic approach to faith in God through Jesus Christ.

"Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." ~ John 8:31-32 NASB

Too often, we the church, seek to bring those who would follow Jesus into bondage to creeds, dogmas, traditions and ideologies of human formation. We speak of a new order, a new day, a new vision, a new awareness, and a new awakening, only to find ourselves engaging in the same old oppressive orders of the past. Hence, the barbaric bondages of fundamentalism and archaic ideologies!

The 'truth' of the gospel, however, frees--frees from deceptive blinding ignorance, from the yoke of religious oppression, from spiritual task-masters, from intimidating fears, and from manipulative practices; and fills the soul with the hope of a liberating and free spirit to serve God from a pure, genuine and liberating place of freedom and authenticity. It’s time to let truth awaken us, arouse us, inspire us, empower us, equip us, impassion us, infuse us, overtake us, undergird us, stretch us, challenge us, and free us!

Our Motto: Liberation, Restoration, Healing, and Empowerment.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe in One God eternally existent in Three Persons - God the Father, God the Son, & God the Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived of the Holy Spirit, and born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is True God and True Man, and is a sufficient Mediator between God and humankind.

We believe in the Person of the Holy Spirit, and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to humanity in the regeneration and sanctification of their souls, and that He indwells all believers.

We believe that the Bible, composed of Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word of (about) God and is regarded as sacred scripture with supreme significance in faith and life. As ‘inspired’ this inspiration is neither in the physical text itself nor in single writers, but in the message of Scripture, what it tells us about God, about ourselves, and about how we relate to God. Scripture is the witness that the community of faith has borne to or about revelation. In other words, God is the content of the revelation, and Scripture tells us about, and points us toward that revelation, as, for example, when the Gospels writers bear witness of the things they have seen and heard (Luke 1:1-4; cf. 7:22; John 21:24-25; cf. 3:32). Scripture itself, however, is revelatory only in the secondary or derivative sense that it is a witness and response to God’s revelation. The Bible contains not only reports about specific revelatory events such as the exodus or the incarnation, but it also contains the communities’ response to those events, and how the Communities of Faith worked out the implications of their encounters with God in doctrinal, social, ethical, and cultural ways.

We believe that humankind is created in the image of God, and as divinely created beings, we are prone to the ‘original goodness’ of God’s creative genius.

We believe in the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins, in the resurrection of His body, His ascension into Heaven, and His personal and visible future return to the earth, and that salvation is received through personal faith in Him.

We believe that baptism is by immersion of a believer in water, in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; setting forth the essential truths of redemption: the death and resurrection of Christ, signifying the believer’s death to sin and resurrection to newness of life.

We believe the Lord’s Supper is a communal rite of fellowship and witness, commemorating the Lord’s death until He comes, to be experienced by all believers in obedience to the example as set forth by our Lord Jesus Christ and the Early Church.

We believe that the New Testament Church is a relevant, radical, and totally inclusive body of baptized believers associated for worship, service, the proclamation of the Gospel, and the promoting of God’s Kingdom (reign) in all the world.

ABOUT OUR PASTOR ~ Bishop Andre' L. Jackson

Native of Montclair, NJ, preaching since 1974, pastoring since 1991. Founding Pastor of New Vision FGBC, East Orange and Establishmentarian and immediate past State Bishop of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship State of New Jersey. Eldest child of Joyce P. Jackson of Montclair.

Bishop Andre’ L. Jackson began preaching at the early age of 13, and was licensed to preach at the age of 15. Bishop Jackson received ordination within the Pentecostal/Holiness and Baptist faith traditions and in November of 1990, was called as Pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church of Newark, NJ, where he served for three years.

In November of 1993, Bishop Jackson founded and organized the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church in Newark, NJ and after just four years, in November of 1997, the worshippers of New Vision marched into their 4.3 Million Dollar worship complex in East Orange, New Jersey.

In October of 1994, Bishop Jackson was appointed as the first Overseer for the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship ~ State of New Jersey, and on November 21, 1996, was duly consecrated to the sacred and holy office of “Bishop” in our Lord’s Church under the auspices of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship ~ Worldwide, by the hand of Bishop Paul S. Morton, Presiding Bishop. As such, Bishop Jackson became the establishmentarian and pioneer for the work of Full Gospel in the State of New Jersey, advancing its cause and agenda, and promoting growth and development among membership churches. Bishop Jackson is now the immediate past State Bishop of the State Fellowship, after faithfully serving for nearly 17 years!

Bishop Jackson is a native of Montclair, New Jersey, where he attended Montclair Public Schools and received his early Christian training at the Bright Hope Baptist Church.

In addition to pastoral ministry, as a former educator and advocate for quality education, Bishop Jackson has also served as an Educational Consultant and Youth Development Specialist, assisting the high school and college student population in pursuit and achievement of their educational goals by way of academic advisement, mentoring, coaching and consultation.

Bishop Jackson holds an Associate’s of Arts (AA) Degree in Liberal Arts from County College of Morris, Randolph, NJ, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree in Religion Studies from Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, with a dual concentrated minor in Psychology, and African-American Studies and has matriculated in graduate studies at Regent University School of Divinity, Virginia Beach, VA, working towards completion of the Master of Arts (MA) in Practical Theology. His additional studies include Oxford University, Oxford England, The Milano Graduate School of New School University in New York City, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT, and Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, where he is a distinguished Fellow of The Black Theological Leadership Institute.

Bishop Jackson additionally holds several civic, community, educational, and religious affiliations, and offices. Thus, always endeavoring to serve this present age, his calling to fulfill.

As a preacher, Bishop Jackson is most celebrated for his ability to unfold scripture in such a way that its relevance to our contemporary reality is obvious. He delivers the Word with passion, precision, power, and anointing and remains committed to proclaiming a gospel of liberation, restoration, healing, and empowerment. His delivery style is dynamic, exuberant, and high-Spirited. His preaching has been described as "theologically sound, homiletically, and hermeneutically proficient, and charismatically appealing."

Bishop Jackson continues to dedicate his ministry to the memory of his late grandmother, Sis. Louise Logan, whose deep love and abiding faith have been an inspiration forever instilled.

"I consider myself a 'progressive liberal' not hemmed into the literal dogma of scripture, but governed and guided by the God of the Scriptures and His Spirit. Beneath the core of fundamentalism lays a deeper and greater TRUTH! While I do not take the scriptures literally, I do indeed take them quite seriously!"

New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church,
Administrative Offices ~ Winston House
209 4th Ave., East Orange, New Jersey 07017,
(973) 672-5211 ~ (973)672-5311(f)
Email: ALJNEW@aol.com. ~ NewVisionFGBC.org.