Statement of Faith

God

We believe in one God, eternally existent as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 28:19)

God’s Word

We believe that the Bible is God’s inspired, sufficient, complete infallible Word, and is the supreme standard and final authority for all conduct, faith, and doctrine. (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

Jesus Christ and His Death

We believe Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His substitutionary and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory. (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:18-25 John 1:14; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Acts 5:30-31. Matt. 16:27)

Man and Sin

We believe that man was created in the image of God, but by wilful transgression became sinful and is justly under the condemnation and wrath of Almighty God. (Gen 1:26; Rom 5:12).

Man and Salvation

We believe that the only salvation from this guilt and condemnation is by repentance and through faith in the righteousness and atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ alone at the cross, and that this salvation is entirely an act of God’s sovereign grace. (Acts 2.38, Acts 20.21, Eph. 2:8, 9; Col. 1:14; Rom. 6:23).

Holy Spirit and His Work

We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men, to convict them of sin, to regenerate repentant sinners and, by His presence and power, to sanctify the lives of the redeemed, indwelling them, producing in them His fruit, granting them His gifts and empowering them for service, thus enabling them to live holy lives pleasing to God. (John 14:26; John 16:8, Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13, 14).

Baptism and the Lord’s Supper

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ instituted the ordinances of baptism and communion; that baptism is only to be administered upon profession of faith in Christ, by immersion, thereby declaring our faith in a crucified, buried and risen Saviour- that communion is only for believers, is to be preceded by faithful self-examination and is in remembrance of the Lord’s death until He comes. (Matt. 28:18-20; Luke 22:19-20; Acts 2:41, Acts 8:36, 38; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).

Church

We believe that the Church, which is the Body of Christ, consists of all who have been redeemed and reconciled to God through faith in Jesus Christ. It is visibly expressed in local congregations of Christians (local churches) who relate to one another in close fellowship and who gather together regularly for worship, teaching, service and sharing of the gospel to the unsaved. (Acts 2:42-47; Matt.28:19-20)

End Times

We believe that there will be a resurrection of just and the unjust; the just, having been redeemed by the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, to be with Him throughout eternity in glory; the unjust, having died impenitent and unreconciled to God, to eternal condemnation in Hell. (Rom 2:5; Rom 14:10; 2 Cor 5:10; 2 Pet 2:4)