Our Beliefs

“We presume that the gospel is a set of basic “A-B-C” doctrines that Christians do not need to hear or study once they are converted. Rather, they should move beyond the gospel to more “advanced” doctrines…Belief in the gospel is not just the way to enter the kingdom of God; it is the way to address every obstacle and grow in every aspect. The gospel is not just the “ABCs” but the “A-to-Z” of the Christian life. The gospel is the way that anything is renewed and transformed by Christ — whether a heart, a relationship, a church, or a community. All our problems come from a lack of orientation to the gospel. Put positively, the gospel transforms our hearts, our thinking and our approach to absolutely everything.”

Timothy Keller, Sr Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church

STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN GENERAL

1) We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and
accept them as the supreme and final authority for faith and life.

2) We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

3) We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin
Mary and is true God and true man.

4) We believe that God created man in His own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of sin
which is death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues (in the case
of those who reach moral responsibility) in actual transgressions involving personal guilt.

5) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice according to the Scriptures
and that come to faith in Him are justified on the grounds of His sinless life and shed blood.

6) We believe in the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life as
our High Priest and Advocate.

7) We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

8) We believe that all who repent of their sin and turn to Lord Jesus Christ in faith have been born again of the
Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

9) We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, empowering and equipping believers for service, with the
accompanying supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit; and in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We believe in the
divinely ordained ministries of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher.

10) We believe in the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and
the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.

11) We believe that the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus
Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local church on earth should take it’s character from this
conception of the Church spiritual and therefore, that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are
essentials of Church membership.

12) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ appointed to ordinances – Baptism in water and the Lord’s Supper –
to be observed as acts of obedience and as perpetual witnesses to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith;
that Baptism is the immersion of the believer as a confession of identification with Christ in burial and
resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of the emblems symbolic of the Savior’s broken
body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death, till He comes.

13) We believe the Bible teaches that without holiness no man can see the Lord. We believe in the doctrine of
sanctification as a definite, yet progressive work of grace, commencing at the time of the new birth and
continuing until the consummation of salvation.

APOSTLES CREED

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
    the Maker of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:

Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
    born of the virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, dead, and buried.

On the third day He arose again from the dead;

He ascended into heaven,
    and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
    from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost;
    the holy catholic church;
    the communion of saints;
    the forgiveness of sins;
    the resurrection of the body;
    and the life everlasting.

Amen.
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