The Bible

We believe the Holy Bible is the infallible Word of God — entirely without error based on the original handwritten documents. “Every word of God is flawless” (Proverbs 30:5). We believe the Bible provides the principles for our faith and practice, revealing how to live our lives.

The Trinity: God

We believe there is only one living and true God, the all-powerful Creator, Supreme Ruler, and Sustainer of the Universe (See Deuteronomy 4:39; Psalm 90:2). We believe the eternally existing God is revealed in three persons as the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each equally and fully deity and each equally possessing all the attributes and characteristics of personality — mind, will, and emotion.

Jesus Christ

We believe Jesus Christ is God the Son and Saviour of the World. He became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. We believe He lived a sinless life and voluntarily paid the penalty for the sins of all people by His sacrificial death on the cross as our substitute. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His present ministry as High Priest and Mediator, and His future role as Judge of all humanity.

The Holy Spirit

We believe the Holy Spirit is God, whose present ministry in the world is to reveal and glorify Christ and to convict and draw sinners to Christ. We believe His present ministry within Christians is to regenerate, baptise, and seal them into the body of Christ and impart spiritual gifts to each of them. We believe His permanent, indwelling presence within Christians empowers them to live godly lives.

We believe God created all things by His almighty power. We believe the Genesis account of creation is to be understood historically and literally, not allegorically or figuratively. We believe all three members of the triune God participated in the Creation. We believe all people everywhere are created in the image of God. “God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; We believe Adam, the first man, sinned and as a result, all people inherited a natural bent to sin and thus are spiritually dead. We believe God offers salvation and the gift of eternal life to all people through the Lord Jesus Christ, and He desires that no one should perish. We believe God saves people from the penalty of sin when they entrust their lives to Jesus Christ alone, receiving Him as their personal Lord and Saviour. This salvation is a result not of good works, but of God’s grace — a gift no one deserves — when they put their faith in Jesus Christ.

We believe God saves people from the power of sin by giving them a new heart, a new spirit, and a new way of behaving. We believe God saves people from the presence of sin, where in heaven Christians will be like Christ and where He will keep them eternally secure. We believe Christians sin and are, therefore, called to confess their sins to God — not for salvation, since they are already saved, but to regain a clear conscience before God and to not give Satan a foothold in their lives (Psalm 32:3-5). We believe God calls all Christians to live holy lives through the power of the in-dwelling Holy Spirit. We believe Christians are called to love one another as Christ loves them so that everyone will know they are His disciples. We believe the church, “the body of Christ,” is composed of all those who have put their faith in Christ.

We believe baptism is a symbol of identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.

We believe all Christians should assemble regularly in local churches for worship, for observing the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, for mutual encouragement and discipline, and for carrying out God’s purpose in this world.

We believe in the imminent, personal, visible return of Christ to inaugurate His kingdom in which He will reign in power and glory for 1,000 years. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost, resulting in the everlasting, conscious, blessed state of the saved and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the unsaved.

We believe in the second coming of Christ, the rapture of believers — both the living and the dead — and the establishment of a new order within a new heaven and new earth.