What We Believe
Our Confession
As a Confessional Reformed Baptist Church, are beliefs can be summerised in the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
1. The Scriptures
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original autographs as fully inspired of God and inerrant and accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.
2. God
We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is true God and truly man.
3. Man
We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death which is separation from God and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are guilty before God.
4. Jesus Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice, according to the Scriptures and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
We believe
in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, His ascension into heaven and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
5. Believers
We believe that all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and are thereby made children of God.
We believe in the priesthood of all believers and in the indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer and in the church.
6. Resurrection
We believe in the bodily resurrection both of the just and unjust; the eternal blessedness of the redeemed in the presence of God, and the eternal damnation into hell of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
7. The Church
We believe that the one true church of our Lord Jesus Christ as distinguished from the state is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit, that the local church on earth should take its character from the conception of the church spiritual and, therefore, that the new birth and confession of Christ are essential to church membership.
8. Baptism and the Lord's Supper
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s supper, to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith. That baptism is the immersion of the believer in water as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of bread and wine symbolizing the Savior’s body and blood in remembrance of His sacrificial death until He comes again.