About Us

We believe in one true God, sovereign, holy, personal and loving, creator and supreme ruler of heaven and earth, worthy of all honour and praise, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, equal in essence, while distinct in personality and function.

(Genesis 1:1; Exodus 20:2-3; Deuteronomy 4:35; 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 1:1-3; 1 Corinthians 8:5-6; 2 Corinthians 13:14)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, is both fully God and fully Man, existing eternally as the only begotten Son of God, conceived by the Holy Spirit, and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a perfect, sinless life and died a vicarious death on the cross, making a full and substitutionary atonement for sinners and propitiating God's wrath. He was buried, and on the third day rose again from the dead and ascended bodily into heaven. He now ministers at the right hand of God the Father as our great High Priest, Advocate and Intercessor.

(Isaiah 7:14; 53:4-12; John 1:1,9-14,29; 10:18; Luke 1:35; Galatians 1:1; 4:4; 1 Peter 3:18; Philippians 2:5-11; Hebrews 4:14-16)

We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit and His essential work in conviction, regeneration and sanctification. He convicts the world concerning sin, righteousness and judgement. He is the agent of regeneration in the new birth, the seal of our salvation and guarantor of our inheritance in Christ. He indwells and empowers every believer, and distributes spiritual gifts according to His sovereign good will, for the purpose of building up the body of Christ.

(John 3:5; 14:16-17; 16:7-14; Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 8:9; 12:6-8; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Timothy 1:14; Hebrews 2:4; 1 John 4:13)

We believe that Satan was created by God as an angel, but though pride and rebellion became an enemy of his Creator, drawing many angels with him. He is the "god of this world" and "prince of the power of the air" who seeks continually to frustrate the purposes of God and ensnare mankind. However, the defeat of Satan and his angels was accomplished at the cross of Christ, and at the end of the age he will be cast into the lake of fire, a place of eternal judgement prepared for him and his angels.

(Ezekiel 28:13-17; John 8:44; Ephesians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:4; 11:13-15; Revelation 12:9-10; 20:10)

We believe the Genesis account of creation as neither allegory, poetry or myth, but a literal historical account of the direct and immediate creative act of God, and that He created man, both male and female, in His likeness, innocent and free from sin, but by voluntary transgression man fell from his sinless state. By reason of the historic fall of Adam and Eve, all men are born into a condition of spiritual death, under divine wrath and punishment, and are totally depraved, being sinful by nature, and sinners by thought, word and deed.

(Genesis 1:1-2:25; 3:1-7; Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 19:4; John 1:3; 16:8; Romans 1:24-29; 3:10-13,23; 5:12-19)

We believe that all human life is sacred, created by God in His image, and is therefore of inestimable worth, through every stage or condition, from conception to natural death, and that every person possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

We believe that in the Genesis account, God wonderfully and immutably created male and female, equal in nature, value and worth, but different in design and function, that these two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God, and that the rejection of one's biological sex is a sinful rejection of God's original plan and purposes.

We believe the term "Marriage" has only one meaning, as delineated in Scripture: the God-ordained union of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into, for life. This union serves as a symbol of the relationship between Christ and His Church. Marriage is therefore the framework for intimate companionship, the sole channel for sexual intimacy and expression according to Biblical standards, the means for bringing forth children, as God chooses to give them, and the foundation for the family unit as the basis for a stable human society. Accordingly, this church will only solemnise Marriages that conform to this Biblical definition.

(Genesis 1:26-27; 2:18-25; 9:5-6; Exodus 20:3; Deuteronomy 27:25; Job 31:15; Psalm 127:3; 139:13-16; Matthew 5:31-32; 19:1-9; Mark 10:1-12; Romans 1:26-28; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,18; 7:2-5; Ephesians 5:21-33; Hebrews 13:4)

We believe that the salvation of sinners is solely by the grace of God the Father, accomplished by God the Son and applied by God the Holy Spirit. It is received through repentance from sin and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone, wholly apart from works, and includes regeneration, justification by faith, adoption as sons, sanctification, and final glorification.

(John 1:12-13; 3:3-16; 10:28-29; Acts 4:12; 16:31; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 1:5,13-14; 2:8-9; 1 John 1:9)

We believe in the unity of all true believers in the Church, the body of Christ, which began on the day of Pentecost and will be completed at the return of Christ, and is the agency by which God has chosen to accomplish His work in the world. We believe that the Church is manifested through local churches, congregations gathering together under the Lordship of Jesus Christ, governed by the Word of God, having the Scriptural offices of Pastors (or Elders) and Deacons, and administering the two ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

(Acts 2:41-47; Matthew 28:18-20; Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Corinthians 12:13; 12:27; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-9; 1 Peter 5:1-3)

We believe that Christ gave only two ordinances to the Church: 1) Baptism of a believer by immersion in water, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to show our faith in and identification with the death, burial and resurrection of our Saviour Jesus Christ, through whom we died to sin and have been raised to a new life; and 2) The Lord's Supper, with symbols that represent the body and blood of Christ, to be observed by believers only, and preceded by a solemn self-examination. We believe both are symbolic in nature and neither confer any saving merit upon the recipient.

(Matthew 26:26-28; 28:18-20; Acts 2:41; 8:36-39; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 11:23-28; Colossians 2:12)

We believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ. His coming will be personal and visible, in glory and in power, to judge the world in righteousness, to establish his kingdom forever, and to consummate all things.

We teach that Christ's return will be pre-tribulational and pre-millennial, that God has a distinct plan for both the Church and for Israel, that He will come in the clouds to receive the Church to Himself, and finally come to earth with His Saints in glory, to sit on the throne of David, establish His earthly Kingdom, and fulfil God's eternal Covenant promises to His chosen people Israel.

(Daniel 9:24-27; Isaiah 9:6-7; 11:1-9; Matthew 24:29-31; 25:30-32; Luke 1:30-33; John 14:1-3; Acts 2:29-30; 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 51-55; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10; 4:13-18; 5:9-11; Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 3:11-13; Revelation 3:10; 11:15; 17:14; 19-20)

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the unjust and the just, that those who by their unrepentance and unbelief, who have never been reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, will be judged according to their unrighteous works and spend eternity in everlasting punishment, and that those who are saved by God's grace and are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ will spend eternity in full enjoyment of God's presence.

(Daniel 12:2; Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 16:19-31; 1 Corinthians 15; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 21:1-8)