Our Core Beliefs
1. The True God
God is
the Creator of man and the entire universe and upholds all things by
the Word of His power. We believe also in the Trinity - The Father,
the Son, the Holy Spirit.. God in His person is all-knowing,
all-powerful, present everywhere at once, and unchangeable.
1 John 5:7 – For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
2. Person and Work of God the Father
We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, boundless in love,
infinite in wisdom, measureless in power. He concerns Himself
mercifully in the affairs of men; He hears and answers prayers and he
saves by faith those who come to Him through Jesus Christ His Son.
Psalm 147:5 – Great is our LORD, and of great power: his understanding is
infinite.
3. Person and Work of God the Son
We believe that Jesus Christ was sinless in His nature and life, and
infallible in His teaching; that He accomplished our redemption,
making atonement for our sins through His substitutionary death on the
cross according to the Scriptures; and that our justification is made
sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead.
Acts 4:12 – Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none
other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
4. Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person and that He indwells
the believers at the moment of salvation and is their constant source
of strength and power; that He seals, guides, teaches, comforts,
sanctifies, and helps the believer; and that He witnesses of and
glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 14:16 – And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever.
6. The Scriptures
We believe that the Holy Bible was written by Holy Spirit-controlled men
who were supernaturally inspired and that it is without error. We
recognise that the King James version is a trustworthy, accurate, and
reliable English translation, and we confidently use it in the pulpit
and in Sunday School classroom.
Psalm 12:6-7 – The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a
furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O LORD,
thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.
7. Satan
We believe in the personal existence of Satan, the Devil, who was created
a perfect angelic being; who wilfully led a host of other angels in
rebellion against God before the world began; who is the author of
sin, sickness and all false religions; who is the accuser of saints
and tempter of all men; and who shall be destroyed in the lake of fire
with his followers at the end of the millennium.
Rev. 20:10 – And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of
fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and
shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
8. Creation
We believe in the Genesis account of creation as neither allegory nor
figuratively, but a literal, historical account of the direct,
immediate creative acts of God without any (organic or theistic)
evolutionary process
Gen. 1:1 – In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
9. The Fall Of Man
We believe that man was created in innocence under the law of his Maker;
that by his own free choice and wilful decision fell into sin and
there by incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death
which is eternal separation from God. Man in his sinful condition is
under just condemnation without defense or excuse.
Rom.5:12 – Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and
death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have
sinned.
10. Salvation
We believe that salvation of sinful man is wholly by God's grace and not
by man's works; that Jesus Christ came into the world to make full
payment for sin by His shed blood, substituionary death on the cross,
and bodily resurrection from the grave; that man must personally
repent of his sins and accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and
Saviour to receive the free gift of eternal life; that man can be
saved only once and that there is no other way of salvation for sinful
man.
Acts 20:21 – Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
11. Sanctification
We believe that sanctification is the divine setting apart of the
believer unto God accomplished in a threefold manner; First, an act of
God, based upon redemption in Christ, establishing the believer in a
position of holiness at the moment he trusts the Saviour; Second, a
continuing process in the believer as the Holy Spirit applies the Word
of God to his life; Third, the final accomplishment of this process at
the Lord's return when the believer will be removed from the presence
of sin.
12. Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to
bring reproach upon their Saviour and Lord; and that separation from
all worldly and sinful pleasures and practices is commanded by God.
1 John 2:15 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in
him.
13. The Priesthood Of All Believers
We believe that Christ is our Great High Priest and through Him every
born again person has direct access into God's presence without the
need of a human priest; that the believer has the right and
responsibility to personally study and interpret the Scriptures guided
by the Holy Spirit.
Heb. 10:19 – Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
holiest by the blood of Jesus.
14. Spiritual Gifts
We believe that God is Sovereign in the giving of all His gifts; and
that the gifts of evangelists, pastors and teachers are sufficient for
the perfecting of the saints today; and that speaking in tongues
(languages) and the working of sign miracles gradually ceased as the
New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority became
established.
1 Cor. 13:10 – But when that which is perfect is come, then that which
is part shall be done away.
15. The Church
We believe that a local church is a congregation of saved, baptised
believers. We hold that the local church has absolute right of
self-government and that Christ is the one and only Head and
Superintendent of the Church
Eph. 4:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is
the head of the church: and He is the Saviour of the body.
16. The Ordinances
We believe there are only two ordinances given to
the local church by Christ; Believer's Baptism, and the Lord's Supper,
and that both these ordinances have no saving merit; and that as
Christ gave these ordinances to the local church, that the local
church alone has the authority to administer them.
17. Missions
Because all men everywhere
without Christ are lost and bound for eternal punishment, and because
men cannot believe in Him of whom that have not heard, we believe that
we are debtors to all men and have the responsibility of giving them
the Gospel. As a local church, we must support by prayer and financial
aid those who go out that are sound in doctrines and have like faith
and practice to represent us in other parts of the world.
18. Heaven and Hell
We believe that Heaven and Hell are literal, eternal places, prepared of God; that every person
has a soul of eternal duration; that heaven is a place of eternal joy
and happiness for those who are saved by the grace of God; and that it
is a place of God's preparation for His people.
We also believe that those who do not accept God's grace and remain in their lost condition shall
abide in hell forever, eternally separated from God.
19. The Rapture and Subsequent Events
We believe in the imminent,
pre-tribulation, pre-millennial return of Jesus Christ for his church,
and that at that moment the dead in Christ shall be raised in
glorified bodies, and that those living in Christ "shall be changed in
a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump" (I Cor.
15:52) and shall be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.