Serving
to help encourage and build up the body of believers in love and
truth
John 15
5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in
Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Statement of Faith
The Web Site Administrators believe …
…that the Scriptures are the inerrant and infallible Word of God given
through
divine inspiration; that the Bible in its entirety is to be the sole
and final
authority on all matters of belief and practice for Christians.
…that there is one God who
is eternal and
immutable, who manifests Himself in three co-equal and co-eternal Persons: God the Father,
God
the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
…in the full deity and full humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He
is the
promised Messiah, conceived
of the Holy
Spirit, born of the virgin Mary; that He possesses both a divine and a
human
nature both distinct and unmixed; that He was without sin; that he died
a penal
substitutionary death for the sin of all men; that He was buried, arose
on the third day in the
same but glorified body in which he lived and died; that by His death
He
provided atonement for all men, but it is applied only to those who
believe; that He ascended to the right hand of God the Father
where He now intercedes for all who believe in Him.
… in the personal and physical and bodily return of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
… in the personality
and deity of the
Holy Spirit; that he is the infallible author and interpreter of the
infallible
Word; that He convicts, regenerates, indwells, empowers, instructs and
guides
the believer to live a godly life in obedience to the Lord Jesus and to
be bold
in our witness for the Lord.
…that mankind was
created in the image
of God; that through the rebellion against God by the first man Adam
that he
lost his spiritual life; that this fallen nature is transmitted to
every
descendant of Adam and as such, placing mankind under the condemnation
of God;
that he is dead in his sins, and, hence is totally depraved (with the
exception of the man Jesus Christ);
that man is incapable of change apart from by divine grace.
… that salvation is wholly a work of God’s free grace and is only
through faith
in Jesus Christ and repentance whereby through saving grace a sinner,
being
truly aware of his sinfulness, understands the mercy of God in Christ,
grieves
for and hates his sins, and turns from them to God, fully intending and
striving for obedience to the Lord Jesus, by the power of the Holy
Spirit.
… that the local church is an organisation of believers in a given
area, called
out of the world to assemble under authoritative leadership to worship
God, to
be taught the Scriptures by gifted men, to edify and encourage one
another and
to use their spiritual gifts for the purpose of the building up of the
Body of
Christ.