What we believe

    • He is one

    • He is eternal

    • He is Creator and Lord of the whole world

    • He is Father, Son and Spirit

    • He governs all things including the salvation of sinners, according to His sovereign and eternal will. We believe that from all eternity, God has unchangeably ordained whatsoever comes to pass, yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is the will of the creature violated

    • He is the loving redeemer

    • He is Holy; utterly set apart from the rest of his creation

    • He is worthy of glory, honour and praise

    • Both men and women are created in the image of the triune God

    • God created humanity male and female, after His own image. While equal in dignity and value, God has ordained distinct covenantal responsibilities for men and women in the home and in the church

    • Humanity has divinely-given dominion over the created order

    • Through Adam and Eve, who sinned before the creator God, all of humanity is sinful by nature

    • The supreme need of humanity is to be reconciled with God

    • The Bible is the only inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God

    • The total compilation of 66 books in the Bible is entirely without error in its original writings

    • The Holy Scriptures are totally sufficient for the revelation of salvation by the Holy Spirit bearing witness by and with the Word in our hearts to our full persuasion of its truth

    • It is the final authority in all matters pertaining to faith and life, as it is the final arbiter in all these issues

    • Jesus is the second person of the God-head

    • He is the eternal son of God the Father

    • He became human: fully God yet fully man (hypostatic union)

    • He is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament

    • He perfectly obeyed the Father and lived a sinless life

    • He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, was buried, and arose from the grave on the third day and ascended into heaven where he now sits at the right hand of the Father

    • He will return in power and glory for his Bride (the Church) and to judge the living and the dead

    • He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We believe Christ is currently seated at the right hand of the Father, ruling not only over His Church but also over the nations, to whom all people and civil authorities owe allegiance and obedience

    • Salvation is found in no one else but Jesus Christ

    • Through Christ’s obedience and death he fully discharged the debt owed of all those who call upon His name

    • Salvation is given as a gift of unmerited grace by God to sinners

    • The work of the Holy Spirit is necessary to regenerate the heart, making the sinner willing and able to believe. Faith is not a work of man, but the gift of God, who enables the individual to repent and place faith in Jesus Christ

    • The Church universal is the invisible communion of the saints; believers who have been saved and redeemed by Christ, spread all over the world, throughout history

    • The Church local is the visible Church; that is the gathering of believers around Christ

    • It is a community of individuals bound together by the goal of glorifying God and bearing witness to his message to save and transform lives

    • The Church is built by individuals who are equipped by the Holy Spirit with various gifts for the building up of the community

    • God relates to His people through voluntary covenants

    • The first was a Covenant of Works with Adam, which he broke, bringing sin and death upon humanity

    • The second is the Covenant of Grace, wherein God freely offers life and salvation to sinners by Jesus Christ, requiring faith in Him

    • This one Covenant of Grace is administered differently in the Old and New Testaments but is the same in substance