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WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe the Bible,
as originally given, to be without error, the fully inspired
and infallible Word of God and the supreme and final authority
in all matters of faith and conduct.
We believe that the Godhead exists co-equally and co-eternally
in three persons Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that these
three are one God, sovereign in creation, providence and redemption.
We believe in the true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus
Christ, in His virgin birth, in His real and complete
humanity, in His sinless life, in His authoritative teaching,
in His substitutionary and atoning sacrifice through His shed
blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the
right hand of the Father, in His heavenly intercession and
in His second advent to receive His Church.
We believe in the deity of the Holy Spirit who proceeds
from the Father and the Son and the necessity of His work
in conviction of sin, repentance, regeneration and sanctification,
and that the believer is also promised an enduement of power
as the gift of Christ through the baptism in the Holy Spirit
with signs following. Through this enduement the believer
is empowered for fuller participation in the ministry of the
Church, its worship, evangelism and service.
We believe in the universal sinfulness of all men since
the Fall, rendering man subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
We believe in the necessity for salvation of the repentance
towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ by which the
sinner is pardoned and accepted as righteous in God's sight.
This justification is imputed by the grace of God because
of the atoning work of Christ, is received by faith alone
and is evidenced by the Fruit of the Spirit and a holy life.
We believe in the spiritual unity and the priesthood
of all believers in Christ and these comprise the universal
Church, the Body of Christ.
We believe in the ministries that Christ has set in His
Church, namely, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors
and teachers, and in the present operation of the manifold
Gifts of the Holy Spirit according to the New Testament.
We believe in the baptism of believers by immersion in
water in obedience to the command of Christ and in the
commemoration of Christ's death by the observance of the Lord's
Supper until His return.
We believe that the gospel embraces the needs of the whole
man and that the Church is therefore commissioned to preach
the gospel to the world and to fulfil a ministry of healing
and deliverance to the spiritual and physical needs of mankind.
We believe in the personal, physical and visible return
of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign in power and glory.
We believe in the resurrection of the dead and in the final
judgement of the world, the eternal conscious bliss of
the righteous and the eternal conscious punishment of the
wicked.
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