Our Beliefs.

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The Trinity.

There are three persons in the Eternal Godhead—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit—one God, yet three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all alike fully possess the attributes of Deity, including omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. The Godhead is eternal, uncreated, and immortal. God is the Creator, Provider, and Upholder of all things and is perfectly holy. His wisdom, power, love, and mercy are everlasting and fathomless. He is the only Saviour of mankind from sin and the Judge before whom all must one day stand to give account, and who will determine the eternal destiny of every human being.

The Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe in His perfect Deity as the only begotten Son of God. We believe in His miraculous conception and virgin birth. We believe in His real and sinless humanity. We believe in His perfect and sinless life. We believe in His substitutionary and vicarious death for sinners upon the cross of Calvary, which was a unique, all-sufficient, and never-to-be-repeated sacrifice for sin, fully acceptable to God. We believe in the efficacious atoning power of His precious blood. We believe in His bodily resurrection from the dead. We believe in His bodily ascension into heaven, where He is now seated in glory at the right hand of God the Father. We believe in His mediatorship and eternal high priesthood. We believe in His coming to the air to take His Church to be with Him in the Father’s house. We believe in His judgment of every believer’s works at the “bema” seat of Christ. We believe in His subsequent return to rule on earth for a thousand years (the millennium), when He will put all God’s enemies beneath His feet. We believe in His judgment and eternal condemnation to hell of all the ungodly before the Great White Throne. We believe in His creation of a new heaven and a new earth wherein righteousness shall dwell and wherein God, the Triune God, shall be all in all. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of sinners, the only Mediator between God and man, and the only High Priest by whom man can come into the presence of a holy God.

The Holy Spirit.

We believe in His personality and Deity. We believe in His power, work, and witness by which the Bible has been written, sin is restrained in the world, the Lord Jesus Christ is revealed to sinners, and the sinner is illuminated, convicted, regenerated, baptised into the body of Christ, filled, sanctified, and sealed unto the day of our redemption from the very presence of sin. We believe in His indwelling presence in every believer, thereby constituting every believer as the temple of the Holy Spirit.

The Bible.

We believe that as it was originally given, the Bible is, and not simply contains, the infallible, inspired, and inerrant Word of God. We believe that it is the sole, supreme, and all-sufficient authority in all matters of faith and practice. We believe that it has been provided and preserved by God and is able to make men wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. We accept completely and literally its divine record and revelation, including its affirmation of the real and literal nature of miracles, the predictive nature of its prophecies, the existence and personality of Satan, and the existence of heaven and hell as being real places, not allegorical in nature or merely a state of mind.

God's Creation of Man.

We believe that man was created, as recorded in the book of Genesis, in the image and likeness of God. We believe in the tripartite nature of man, that he is body, soul, and spirit. We believe in the eternal and indestructible nature of his being. We believe that the purpose of his creation and existence is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. We believe in his vital need to be born again and to receive God’s gift of eternal life, without which he cannot see or enter the kingdom of God or live a life that is pleasing to Him. We believe in the fall of man into sin, as recorded in Genesis, through the rebellion of Adam and Eve. We believe in the consequent guilt and depravity of human nature as a result of the fall. We believe in the need of mankind to be saved from the eternal judgment of God upon sin and sinners. We believe in the inability of man to save himself. We believe in the necessity of God’s forgiveness of sin and salvation from sin’s penalty and power, without which all men will be eternally lost in hell. We believe in the need for human repentance and faith in God’s revelation concerning His Son, Jesus Christ, as the only Saviour from sin and its consequences. We reject the teachings of evolution, annihilationism, and conditional immortality as being contrary to the biblical revelation concerning the origin and final destiny of man.

The Church.

We believe that the Church is the body and bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, composed of all who are saved, regardless of culture, social status, language, or nationality. We believe that it is the object of God’s unmerited love and is chosen to manifest to the world the fullness of God and His way of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ, and to reign in glory with Christ over the earth. We believe that the local church is the assembly of true regenerated believers and has the absolute right of self-government, free from the interference, control, or dictates of any religious hierarchy of individuals or organisations. We believe that Christ is the one and only Head and Superintendent of the Church. We believe that on all matters of membership, policy and government, discipline, and benevolence, the will of the local church is final.

Salvation.

We believe that salvation from God’s wrath against sin, and the gift of eternal life, can never be earned or appropriated by human effort, deeds, merit, or religious observances. We believe that the salvation of sinful man is wholly by God’s grace and not by man’s works. We believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to make full atonement for sinners by His shed blood, His vicarious death on the cross, His bodily resurrection from the grave, and His ascension into heaven to intercede for believers. We believe that man must personally repent of his sins and accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour in order to receive the free gift of eternal life and power over sin. We believe that upon repentance and acceptance of Jesus Christ, every believer is immediately indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God.

Eternal Life.

We believe that eternal life is the gift of God to all professing believers. We believe that all believers who are redeemed are eternally kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe in the truth commonly expressed as “once saved, always saved.”

The Moral Law.

We believe that the moral law serves as a rule of life for all believers. We believe in the resurrection of the dead, of believers at the coming of Christ for His Church, and of the wicked dead at the close of Christ’s millennial reign. We believe in the eternal happiness of the saved in the presence of Christ. We believe in the everlasting perdition and misery of the wicked.

Spiritual Gifts.

We believe that spiritual gifts are bestowed by God for the work of the ministry. We believe that the gifts of evangelists, pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today. We believe that speaking in tongues and other sign miracles gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority became established. We believe that the gift of tongues was a temporary sign for the lost people of Israel and was given to spread the Gospel message in all languages, and that such sign gifts have ceased since the completion of the Word of God. We believe that the Bible is the complete revelation of God to man and that no extra-biblical revelations are needed apart from the Word of God.

The Two Ordinances.

We believe that the two ordinances of the local church are Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that neither of these ordinances has any saving merit. We believe that as Christ gave these ordinances to the local church, the local church alone has the authority to administer them. We believe that baptism is for believers only. We believe that the mode of baptism is by immersion, showing forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, through whom we have died to sin and risen to a new life. We believe that baptism is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership. We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a memorial service commemorating the death of our Lord Jesus on Calvary. We believe that the bread and fruit of the vine are symbols of Christ’s broken body and shed blood. We believe that partaking of the Lord’s Supper is only for truly regenerated believers.

Heaven and Hell.

We believe that heaven and hell are literal and eternal places prepared by God. We believe that every person has a soul of eternal duration. We believe that heaven is a place of eternal joy and happiness for those who are saved by the grace of God, and that the earth is a place of God’s preparation for His people. We believe that those who refuse God’s grace and remain in their lost condition shall abide in hell forever, eternally separated from God. We believe that hell is a place of physical torment and literal fire.