STATEMENT OF FAITH
We believe in:
The Divine inspiration and inerrancy in the original language of the Old and New Testament Scriptures and their supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
One God eternally existing in Three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The sovereignty of God in creation, providence, revelation, grace, redemption and final judgment.
The creation of man and woman in the image of God; the universal sinfulness and guilt of all since the fall rendering all subject to God's wrath and condemnation, and in need of salvation from sin.
The full deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, his virgin birth and perfect humanity, his substitutionary death, his bodily resurrection from the dead and his ascension to the right hand of God the Father, his presence there on our behalf and his future personal return in glory.
The personality and full deity of the Holy Spirit and his work in regeneration, indwelling and in sanctification and that he energises and empowers for godly living and for spiritual service and that the believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit from the moment of faith in Christ and is also privileged and commanded to be filled with the Spirit.
The divine provision of salvation; the justification and eternal security of all who receive Christ by faith; the redemption from the guilt, the penalty and the power of sin solely through the sacrificial death, as our representative and substitute, of the Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God.
That all believers at this present time are members of the Body of Christ, the Church, being baptised by the Holy Spirit into his body the moment of faith in Christ.
The gifts of the Spirit are given to assist in the up building and service of the church. The possession of any of the gifts of the Spirit is not a sign of the spirituality of the individual or church; this is indicated by the presence and growth of the fruit of the Spirit. The giving or withholding of any gifts of the Spirit is the sovereign decision of the Head of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The evangelisation of the whole world as the urgent responsibility of the church.
The eternal consciousness of the soul, the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved, the everlasting fellowship and joy of the saved and the everlasting punishment of the lost.