Our Statement of Faith

Whilst having no desire to impose a human creed upon another man's conscience, we feel it right and needful as a professing Christian church to set forth a statement of those truths which we believe to be fundamental to the Christian Faith, and upon the basis of which we are glad to have fellowship with other churches and to receive as brethren those who desire to enter into membership with us. We believe that:

1. The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the inerrant Word of God, given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and are authoritative in all matters about which they speak.
   They are the means of knowing God, and living unto Him, and anyone who denies them cannot be saved.

2. There is one true God, the Creator, Ruler and Judge of the world, to be acknowledged by faith since every other way of knowing Him is insufficient.
   God the Creator is eternally distinct from all His creatures in His being and glory.
   God exists as one God in a Trinity of Persons each of whom is wholly God.

3. The Lord Jesus Christ is the true God who became truly man, so that in one Person He is both God and man.
   He is the only Mediator between God and men, and without the knowledge of Him there is no salvation.
   This same Lord Jesus Christ, being the only God and man in one Person, remains for ever a Person distinct from all angels and believers, even though they have union and communion with Him.

4. The Lord Jesus Christ became our Redeemer by bearing our sins as our Representative and by propitiating God's wrath as our Substitute.
   He has ransomed us from the condemnation of the Law by the price of His own blood having thereby made atonement for our sins and reconciled us to God.
   This same Lord Jesus Christ is He that was crucified at Jerusalem, and rose again from the dead, and ascended bodily into heavens and these events were actual and historical.

5. By reason of the historic Fall of Adam and Eve all men are born into a condition of spiritual death, under divine wrath, and are sinful by nature and act. No man can be saved unless he be born again, repent, and believe, by the work of the Spirit of God.
   We are justified and saved from our sins by grace, through faith in Christ, and not by works of righteousness which we have done. But to continue without repentance in any known sin, under any pretence or pretext, is damnable.

6. God is to be worshipped according to His own will, and anyone who forsakes and despises all the duties of His worship cannot be saved.
   He has ordained that believers shall gather together as churches, these being assemblies which meet for fellowship under the authority and preaching of the Word of God, and observe the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

7. The Lord Jesus Christ will come again to judge the world, and the dead will rise to appear at the day of judgement, believers to go into everlasting life, and unbelievers into everlasting condemnation.