The Bible is the Word of God. The Lord's servants wrote the original manuscripts through supernatural inspiration. God ensured that the resulting Book of Books accurately conveyed His Truth. Despite opposition through the centuries, God has preserved His Word. People can understand the Bible by using normal rules of grammar and paying attention to the context. God the Holy Spirit’s illuminating ministry aids the reading and study of the Bible.
There is only one God who exists eternally in three fully equal Persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
God created the universe, planet Earth and all living things by divine command in six, 24-hour days.
God created male and female human beings in His image. Because of the first man’s willful disobedience, God judged Adam, Eve and all their descendants with spiritual separation from Himself and eventual physical death.
God the Father sent God the Son, Jesus Christ, into the world to save those who were justly under His condemnation because of their sin. God’s motivation was love for sinners and desire that they love and worship Him.
Jesus Christ is both God and man. He was born of a virgin and lived on earth without ever sinning. Jesus was crucified, paying a death penalty sufficient to save all sinners who choose to repent and believe. On the third day Jesus rose from the dead bodily and later ascended to God the Father's right hand.
Salvation is through faith in the death and resurrection of Christ. Forgiveness of sin, the imparting of a new nature and the certain hope of eternal life is God's gift that must be received. Human effort and good works cannot earn God’s favour.
God the Holy Spirit is a Person possessing all the divine attributes. The Holy Spirit lives in those who repent of sin and put their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit fills believers in response to their confession of sin and yielding to Him.
The true believer is eternally secure and cannot lose salvation. However, sin may interrupt the joy of fellowship with God and bring loving discipline from the Heavenly Father.
Every Christian should grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the written Word of God, in co–operation with the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit.
The Church is a body of persons who have repented of sin and trusted in Jesus Christ for salvation. The Church exists to worship God, provide Biblical instruction and carry on evangelistic and missionary enterprises. Its people also encourage and exhort one another and provide assistance to those in need.
At death the inner being (soul/spirit) of a believer departs to be with the Lord in conscious blessedness. At Christ’s return believers will be united with their resurrected and glorified bodies. There will be a judgment of believers that evaluates their deeds and the appropriate reward for them assigned.
The Lord Jesus Christ is coming again to earth for those who trust in Him. They will live forever in the presence of their Saviour, eventually in the new heaven and new earth.
Those who refuse to believe will be judged by the Lord Jesus Christ and condemned to everlasting separation from God in a terrible place.