The following statements are intended to give a brief overview of my theological convictions. They are by no means exhaustive or address every important topic, though they do address some controversial issues.
God wants all men to be saved (1 Tim 2:4), no-one can come to Jesus unless the father draws him (John 6:44), whoever comes to Jesus, will not be driven away by him (John 6:37), and no-one can snatch them out of Jesus' or the Father's hand (John 10:28-29). This expresses the security of every believer. However, we also find passages that speak of man's responsibility in accepting Jesus atoning sacrifice (e.g., John 1:12). This does not mean that one can actually contribute to one's salvation, which is instead grounded in God's grace alone, but than one can reject God's offer of salvation for oneself. Similarly, even a believer, who is determined to abandon Jesus and falls away from Jesus, may thus lose the salvation (Heb 6:4-6). This is not in contradiction to the statement that no-one can snatch the believer out of Jesus' hand, since it is not a third party but the believer oneself who terminally decides to abandon Jesus. However, this person will always be a case for further counselling, since anyone who thinks he has fallen away from God is actually convicted of a sin by the Holy Spirit and has not committed the unforgivable sin, for he is willing to return to Jesus.
Every believer has received the Holy Spirit at the time of one's conversion, so that a second 'Spirit baptism' is not necessary. However, the Holy Spirit will work in the believer throughout one's life, so that one will continually grow in one's relationship with Christ. Also at the time of the conversion, God gives the believer spiritual gifts which shall be used for the common good (1 Cor 12:7); every believer has at least one gift, nobody has all gifts, and there is no gift that every believer must have (1 Cor 12:7,11). Each gift shall be used in love (1 Cor 13) in its appropriate setting for the sake of the Kingdom of God and the glory of God. Therefore, I do not want to restrict God by saying that some gifts, such as the sign gifts, have ceased, though I realize that these gifts bear the danger of being over-emphasized. Especially the gift of speaking in tongues, which I understand as a gift to talk in foreign languages (Acts 2:5-12), should be used in strict order and only when someone is present who has the gift of interpreting the spoken language (1 Cor 14).
Men and women are equal before god but have—in part—different roles to fulfil. While both men and women may be actively involved in the church, the office to teach the congregation and exercise authority over it is reserved for the man (1 Tim 2:12). However, here again it must be recognized that no service in the church is more or less valuable than any other service; this order appears rather to be a matter of the nature of man and woman and of an orderly worship of God (1 Cor 14:33-40). Similarly, at home a woman should submit to and respect her husband, who is the head of the family and should love his wife (Eph 5:22-33). If both fulfil their roles, there will be a mutual and equal relationship, which will be enjoyed by both of them, so that both may grow together in their life with God.
I recognize several aspects here: God's knowledge of everything that will happen and what He and man are going to do, his knowledge of everything that would happen and what He would do if man made a different decision, man's lack of knowledge of what will happen or would have happened had man made a different decision, and therefore, the independent free will and full responsibility of man in one's decisions. This means that God can not be surprised by any decision of man, and since God knew everything from the beginning, he, for example, already planed the salvation of man through his son in the beginning; and if, for example, Adam had not sinned, God would have followed a different plan which as well was present before him in the beginning.
Although I realize that many different positions can be deduced from the Word of God, my position is that Jesus will return before the Millennium. Yet I do not have a firm position on whether Jesus will return before, during, or after the great tribulation; my preference as well as my hope is, however, that he returns before the tribulation. For me, the important issue is, that we shall keep watch since our Lord may return at any time and we do not know when that will happen (Math 24-25).