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Basis of Faith

As a fellowship we believe in the following:- 

 

  • in one God, eternally existent in three persons; 
  • in the worship of God the Father, through Jesus the Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit;
  • that "all scripture is God-breathed";
  • that through the power of the Holy Spirit, ALL things are made possible.

    As Evangelical Christians, we accept the revelation of the true God given in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and confess the historic faith of the Gospel within these Scriptures.

    We assert the following doctrines which we regard as crucial to the understanding of the faith, and which should result in mutual love, practical Christian service and evangelical concern:

We believe in the sovereignty and grace of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in creation, providence, revelation, redemption and final judgement.

We believe in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scripture and its consequent entire trustworthiness and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

We believe in the universal sinfulness and guilt of fallen man, making him

subject to God's wrath and condemnation.

We believe in the substitutionary, atoning sacrifice of the incarnate Son of

God, Jesus Christ, on the Cross; dying in our place, as the sole and all-

sufficient ground of redemption from the guilt and power of sin, and

from its eternal consequence.

We believe in the justification of the sinner solely by the grace of God,

through faith in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, bodily, from the dead.

We believe in the illuminating, regenerating, indwelling and sanctifying work

of God the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the priesthood of all believers, who form the universal Church,

the Body of which Jesus Christ is the Head and which is committed by His

command to the proclamation of the Gospel throughout the world.

We believe in the personal, visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ in power

and glory, to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to

judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to

the lost, and establish a new heaven and a new earth.

                               Issued October, 1990

Revised May, 2005