STATEMENT OF FAITH
● The Bible is inspired of God, inerrant in the original documents and of final authority in all matters of faith and practice. (II Tim. 3:16-17, II Peter 1:20-21)
● There is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son & Holy Spirit. (II Cor. 13:14, Heb.9:14)
● We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His substitutionary and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father where He serves as our mediator, and in His personal return in power and glory. (John 1:1,29; Matt. 1:23-25; Phil.2:6; I John 3:5; IThess.4:13-18)
● Each member of the human race is fallen, sinful, and lost and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential for the salvation of people. Redemption is wholly by the blood of Christ, and salvation is by grace, through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. (Gen.3, Rom. 3:23, Eph.2:8-9, Acts 4:12)
● All who by faith receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour are born again of the Holy Spirit, indwelt by the Holy Spirit and by the Holy Spirit baptized into the body of Christ, the Church, of which He is the risen and ascended head. (I Cor.12:12-14, Eph.1:22-23, Col.1:18)
● The Church began with the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and is composed of all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. These believers are united to Him and to one another by the indwelling Spirit. The main functions of the church are to glorify God and to witness for Christ until His return. (Acts 2:1-12,42; Acts 11:15-18; Heb.3:1)
● The ascended Christ is the giver of gifts, such as evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and these individuals are responsible to Him for their service. These gifts are given “for the perfecting of the saints unto the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” (Eph.4:11-16)
● There will be a resurrection of the saved and of the lost; of the saved unto eternal life, and of the lost unto eternal damnation and conscious judgement. (I Thess.4:17, Rev. 20:11-15)
WHAT WE BELIEVE
● We believe the Holy Bible is God’s inerrant, infallible, and complete revelation to man, revealing both the absolute perfection of the Godhead (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) as well as the absolute sinful, hopeless & lost condition of all men.
● We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, fully God and fully man, who came to this earth to save sinners by being virgin born, sinless Himself, crucified, buried, resurrected, ascended into Heaven, and coming again.
● We believe that God would have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth through repentance and the new birth, which is by God’s grace through faith in the blood and the finished work of Christ.
● We further believe that those who are saved must deny ungodliness and worldly lusts by living soberly, righteously and Godly in this present word, looking for that blessed hope the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour, Jesus Christ.