Statement of Faith

1)    The sovereignty of God in creation.  All plants and creatures were created without any stages of development from non-living matter, or from one another.  The creation week was six literal 24 hour days.  The Biblical record of the early earth is fully historical, including the special immediate creation of the universe, the world, all creatures, and Adam and Eve in that creation week.  The creation week is the beginning of a Biblical timescale which stretches thousands of years, but not tens of thousands into the past.  The fall of man, the curse, the world wide flood, and the dispersion of nations at Babel are all subsequent historical events.

The sovereignty of God in providence, revelation, redemption and final judgement.

2)    The unity of the Godhead - co-equality of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.

The virgin birth of God the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.  Christ's perfect sinless life, His atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, and His glorious physical and real return to this world to usher in the final consummation of our redemption, and the end times.

3)    The divine inspiration, infallibility, inerrancy and entire trustworthiness of Scripture as originally given  and its sole authority and sufficiency in all matters of faith and conduct.  There is no extra revelation beyond that revealed in Scripture.

4)    Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin solely through the sacrificial and substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus.

5)    The utter depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall.  The entrance of sin into the world, through Adam, brought God's curse on the earth and the entrance of death to all creation, culminating in man's separation from God.  There was no suffering or death in the world prior to the fall.

The utter necessity of the regeneration of the natural man by God.

6)    The justification of the sinner by the grace of God alone through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  The salvation which comes to the believer by grace is permanent and eternal.

7)    The regenerating, converting and sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.  His work in ministry and worship.  The completeness of conversion in making all spiritual blessing immediately available to the believer through the indwelling work of the Holy Spirit applied to the believer at conversion.  Thus those who are believers with a new heart and a new spirit through Christ's death and resurrection, are further sanctified by the Word (Scriptures) and the Spirit which is fully dwelling in them.  This sanctification is a process which will only finally lead to perfection in heaven, not in our fallen state here.

The continuance of the Law of God summarised in the Ten Commandments, the obedience to which does not save, but represent the clear statement of God's righteousness, and His standard for the believer for all time.  This includes the command to keep the Lord's Day holy and set apart.

8)    The ordinance of the Lord's Supper to be regularly practiced by believers.

9)    The ordinance of believer's baptism by full immersion in water. (Effusion being allowed in certain medical cases).

10)    The personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ in glory.

11)    The resurrection of the body, the judgement of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ.  The eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal conscious punishment of the wicked.

12)    As a church we align ourselves with the fuller confession of faith, known as the London (Baptist) Confession of Faith 1689.