Statement of faith
We fully realize that Statements of Faith are at best human attempts to express and define that which is understood of the Word of God. We hold the following to be true to God’s Word.
The Holy Scriptures. We believe that the Holy Bible, consisting of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the infallible word of God. Their teaching and authority are absolute, supreme and final.
The Tri-Unity of the Godhead. We believe there is one God who is revealed in Scripture as a trinity of Persons in perfect harmony existing eternally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in glory and majesty.
Humanity. We believe in the creation of man, his temptation and fall, as recorded in Genesis, and his total spiritual depravity and inability to attain to Divine righteousness.
Jesus Christ. We believe Jesus is the Son of God, sent from God, to be the Saviour of the world. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin, Mary, and is both God and man.
The Gospel. We believe in the Gospel of the Grace of God, that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again bodily on the third day for our justification.
Ascension. We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ to Heaven, His enthronement and His promised personal return for His Church.
Salvation. We believe that the salvation of sinners is by grace alone, through faith in the perfect sacrifice of Christ on the cross. We have no righteousness of our own, neither can we do work sufficient to find favour with God.
New Birth. We believe that when an individual comes to Jesus with sincere repentance and receives Him as personal Saviour, the person is born from above into the family of God.
Baptism. We believe in the baptism of believers by immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. By being baptised, the believer symbolically identifies with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
The Lord’s Supper. We believe we should observe the Lord’s Supper, that this is to be an ordinance for the believer who has been born from above and is to be commemorated “until he come”.
Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, was given on the Day of Pentecost when the New Testament Church and the Dispensation of Grace came into being.
Church Relations. We believe that having received the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour we are admonished to regularly assemble ourselves together for worship, Christian fellowship, to observe the ordinances of Christ, and to keep the unity of the faith, edifying and establishing one another in the faith.
Eternal Life. We believe in the eternal life of the believer, who put their trust in Jesus and His perfect sacrifice on the cross.
Heaven. We believe Heaven is an actual place prepared by God. Christ assured us that He is preparing a place for His Church and will come again and receive her unto Himself.
Satan. We believe in the reality and personality of Satan.
Hell. We believe Hell is a place prepared for Satan and his angels, a place of eternal separation from God for those who have rejected the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
Tithes. We believe that tithes and offerings are the method God has ordained for the work of the spreading of the Gospel and for the material and financial needs of His visible Church.
The Holy Scriptures. We believe that the Holy Bible, consisting of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is the infallible word of God. Their teaching and authority are absolute, supreme and final.
The Tri-Unity of the Godhead. We believe there is one God who is revealed in Scripture as a trinity of Persons in perfect harmony existing eternally as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in glory and majesty.
Humanity. We believe in the creation of man, his temptation and fall, as recorded in Genesis, and his total spiritual depravity and inability to attain to Divine righteousness.
Jesus Christ. We believe Jesus is the Son of God, sent from God, to be the Saviour of the world. He was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin, Mary, and is both God and man.
The Gospel. We believe in the Gospel of the Grace of God, that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again bodily on the third day for our justification.
Ascension. We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ to Heaven, His enthronement and His promised personal return for His Church.
Salvation. We believe that the salvation of sinners is by grace alone, through faith in the perfect sacrifice of Christ on the cross. We have no righteousness of our own, neither can we do work sufficient to find favour with God.
New Birth. We believe that when an individual comes to Jesus with sincere repentance and receives Him as personal Saviour, the person is born from above into the family of God.
Baptism. We believe in the baptism of believers by immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. By being baptised, the believer symbolically identifies with the Lord Jesus Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
The Lord’s Supper. We believe we should observe the Lord’s Supper, that this is to be an ordinance for the believer who has been born from above and is to be commemorated “until he come”.
Holy Spirit. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, was given on the Day of Pentecost when the New Testament Church and the Dispensation of Grace came into being.
Church Relations. We believe that having received the Lord Jesus as personal Saviour we are admonished to regularly assemble ourselves together for worship, Christian fellowship, to observe the ordinances of Christ, and to keep the unity of the faith, edifying and establishing one another in the faith.
Eternal Life. We believe in the eternal life of the believer, who put their trust in Jesus and His perfect sacrifice on the cross.
Heaven. We believe Heaven is an actual place prepared by God. Christ assured us that He is preparing a place for His Church and will come again and receive her unto Himself.
Satan. We believe in the reality and personality of Satan.
Hell. We believe Hell is a place prepared for Satan and his angels, a place of eternal separation from God for those who have rejected the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ.
Tithes. We believe that tithes and offerings are the method God has ordained for the work of the spreading of the Gospel and for the material and financial needs of His visible Church.