The following items should help you understand the church’s Basis of Faith. We believe these truths summarize the essential beliefs held by all true Christians in all places and at all times.
We Believe:-
1. The full and verbal inspiration of all the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures as originally given and of these alone, being in themselves the Word of God, without error and wholly reliable in both fact and doctrine; their final authority and perpetual sufficiency in all matters of faith and practice.
2. The unity of the Godhead and the divine co-equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; the sovereignty of God in creation, providence and redemption.
3. The utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall, and the necessity for regeneration.
4. All men and women, being created in the image of God, have inherent and equal dignity and worth. Their greatest purpose is to obey, worship and love God. God created us male and female, which is identified by our biological sex. Marriage is the exclusive union of one man and one woman and is a picture of the relationship between Christ and his bride the church. Sexual intimacy is a gift from God to be enjoyed only within the context of marriage.
5. The true and proper Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His real and perfect manhood; the authority of His teaching, and the infallibility of all His utterances; His work of atonement for sinners of mankind by His vicarious sufferings and death; His bodily resurrection and His ascension into Heaven; and His present priestly intercession for His people at the right hand of the Father.
6. The justification of the sinner solely by faith, through the atoning merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
7. The work of the Holy Spirit as essential for a true spiritual understanding of the Scriptures; for regeneration, conversion, and sanctification, and for ministry and worship.
8. The ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as being instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, but not in Baptism as conveying regeneration grace, neither in the Lord’s Supper as being a sacrifice for sin nor involving any change in the bread and wine.
9. The personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.
10. The resurrection of the body; the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked.
11. The Universal Church, the body of which Christ is the Head, embracing all the redeemed; called by God through the Gospel, born of the Spirit and justified by faith; the local Church, comprising such believers, as the expression of the Universal Church; the fellowship between such Churches, manifesting the unity of the Body of Christ.
