what we believe

Statement of Beliefs

• The whole Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit and is the ultimate authority for everything that we believe and practice.

• The sovereign God is one, in three co-equal eternal persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy spirit, who act together in creation, providence and redemption.

• Jesus Christ is truly God and truly man. We believe in His virgin birth, His sinless life, His sacrificial death in our place, His bodily resurrection, His bodily return to heaven and His continuous role representing us before the Father.

• The Holy Spirit is a Person who has a necessary role in our conversion, our new birth and in setting us apart for God.

• In His death and resurrection the Lord Jesus Christ took our place, making full payment for our sin. For those who exercise faith in Him, He secures forgiveness, a right relationship with God and everlasting life.

• Humankind, originally created for a relationship with God, has become sinful by nature and practice, unable by any personal merit or effort to restore that relationship.

• Those who reject the gift of eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ will be eternally
separated from God.

• Biblically defined marriage as God created it is only between one man and one woman.

• Salvation is initiated solely by the grace of God, accomplished through the work of God the Son
and applied by the Holy Spirit. It is a free gift accepted by faith and includes a new life, the removal of guilt, being set apart for God and eventual conformity to the character of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Every believer, regardless of social class, ethnicity or gender has direct access to pray to God and to worship Him through the sole mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Satan is a person, opposed to God and His people, sworn to enslave and destroy the human race; that his ultimate purpose has been brought to  nothing by the Lord Jesus Christ.

• At the end of history all people will be raised from the dead, those who have been made right with God to everlasting life and the others to everlasting punishment.

• The Lord Jesus Christ will personally return for His people and will reign in righteousness

• Believers’ baptism and the sharing of the Lord’s Supper are a regular and normal expression of Christian faith and fellowship.

• The Church is the company of all who have received new life through faith in Christ, formed by His Spirit into one body, of which He is the Head, and that the Church is commissioned to make disciples of all nations.