Statement Of Faith
1. We believe in one God (Deuteronomy 6:4), the Creator (Genesis 1:1) and Sustainer (Hebrews 1:3) of all things, who is eternal (Deuteronomy 33:27), all-knowing (1 John 3:20), all-present (Psalm 139:7-10) and all-powerful (Matthew 19:26), and who alone is worthy to receive the worship of His creatures (Revelation 5:3-12).
2. We believe God is a Trinity of persons - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). Each one of them is God, and all three are one God (Deuteronomy 6:4-5; 2 Corinthians 13:14).
3. We believe that humanity was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27) to know God (John 17:3), to glorify Him (Psalm 86:9) and to enjoy Him forever (Psalm 16:11).
4. We believe that humanity has willfully rebelled against God (Romans 5:19). The Bible calls this rebellion sin. As a result of sin, all people through natural birth are guilty sinners (Romans 3:23), subject to God's wrath (John 3:36) and in need of salvation (Romans 6:23).
5. We believe Jesus Christ is the Son of the Father (Luke 9:35), and is both fully God and fully man (John 1:14). We believe He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary (Luke 1:34-35), lived a perfect sinless life (Hebrews 4:15), was crucified dead and buried (John 19:18, 30-42), raised bodily on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:4), ascended into Heaven (Acts 1:11), enthroned as Lord and Saviour at God’s right hand (Acts 5:31) and continues in His High Priestly intercessory ministry (Hebrews 7:24-25), and will return in person, power and glory (Mark 13:26).
6. We believe the purpose of Christ's coming was to do the will of God on earth (Hebrews 10:7), to declare the truth of God through His teaching (John 8:32, 40), to prove the character of God through His life (John 14:9), to demonstrate the power of God through miraculous signs (Acts 10:38), to win redemption for humanity (Hebrews 9:12), and to destroy the power of sin, death, and Satan through His death and resurrection (Hebrews 2:14), His death being a penal, substitutionary, atoning sacrifice (1 John 2:2).
7. We believe that salvation of lost and sinful humanity is possible only through the merits of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Peter 1:18-19), received by faith apart from works (Ephesians 2:8-9), and is characterized by a life of repentance towards God and renewal by the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5).
8. We believe that the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, has been - and continues to be - poured out by God (Acts 2:17) to impart revelation of Jesus Christ (John 15:26), convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment (John 16:8), provide guidance to the saints to live godly lives (John 16:13), and empower the Church to preach the Gospel and be His witnesses (Acts 1:8).
9. We believe that the Bible, as originally given by God, is divinely inspired, infallible, inerrant, and entirely trustworthy Word and is the only authority in all matters of faith and conduct (2 Timothy 3:16).
10. We believe that all who truly believe and follow Jesus Christ form one body, the Church (Romans 12:5; 1 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 1:22-23).
11. We believe that Jesus Christ is coming again in power and glory to judge the living and the dead (Matthew 26:64), raising the saved to a resurrection of life and the lost to a resurrection of judgment (John 5:28,29), after which He will create a new heaven and a new earth in which righteousness will rule and wickedness will be no more (Revelation 21:1-5), in which all who have believed in Him will live and reign forever (Revelation 22:5).
12. We believe that God’s plan is for human sexuality to be expressed only within the context of marriage, and that God created man and woman as unique biological persons to be joined in a monogamous marriage as the foundation of the family and the basic structure of human society. For this reason, we believe that the biblical institution of marriage is between one man and one woman, both in their naturally born state, to the exclusion of all others(Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:5).
13. We believe that human life is sacred from conception to its natural end; and that we must have concern for the physical and spiritual needs of our fellowmen. (Psalm 139:13; Isaiah 49:1; Jeremiah 1:5)
14. We believe in an historical Adam and Eve, and that the Bible poses no threat to scientific study. We seek to teach science with a Biblical worldview and, recognizing the complexity of many Biblical-scientific issues, encourage robust discussion that upholds the authority of Scripture and embraces the rigors of modern science.