We believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who know, love, and glorify one another.

This one true and living God is infinitely perfect both in his love and in His holiness. He is the Creator of all things, visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy to receive all glory and adoration.

God is a speaking God who by his Spirit has graciously disclosed himself in human words: we believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, which are both record and means of his saving work in the world.

These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings, complete in its revelation of his will for salvation, sufficient for all that God requires us to believe and do, and final in its authority over every domain of knowledge to which it speaks.

We confess that both our finitude and our sinfulness preclude the possibility of knowing God’s truth exhaustively, but we affirm that, enlightened by the Spirit of God, we can know Gods revealed truth truly.

The Bible is to be believed, as Gods instruction, in all that it teaches; obeyed, as Gods command, in all that it requires; and trusted, as God’s pledge, in all that it promises. As Gods people hear, believe, and do the Word, they are equipped as disciples of Christ and witnesses to the gospel.

We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image. Adam and Eve belonged to the created order that God himself declared to be very good, serving as Gods agents to care for, manage, and govern creation, living in holy and devoted fellowship with their Maker.

Men and women, equally made in the image of God, enjoy equal access to God by faith in Christ Jesus and are both called to move beyond passive self-indulgence to significant private and public engagement in family, church, and civic life.

Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a one-flesh union that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women, such that marriage ultimately serves as a type of the union between Christ and his church.

In Gods wise purposes, men and women are not simply interchangeable, but rather they complement each other in mutually enriching ways.

God ordains that they assume distinctive roles which reflect the loving relationship between Christ and the church, the husband exercising headship in a way that displays the caring, sacrificial love of Christ, and the wife submitting to her husband in a way that models the love of the church for her Lord.

In the ministry of the church, both men and women are encouraged to serve Christ and to be developed to their full potential in the manifold ministries of the people of God. The distinctive leadership role within the church given to qualified men is grounded in creation, fall, and redemption and must not be sidelined by appeals to cultural developments.

We believe that Adam, made in the image of God, distorted that image and forfeited his original blessedness, for himself and all his progeny, by falling into sin through Satan's temptation.

As a result, all human beings are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being (e.g. physically, mentally, volitionally, emotionally, spiritually) and condemned finally and irrevocably to death, apart from Gods own gracious intervention.

The supreme need of all human beings is to be reconciled to the God under whose just and holy wrath we stand; the only hope of all human beings is the undeserved love of this same God, who alone can rescue us and restore us to himself.

We believe that from all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation, and to this end foreknew them and chose them.

We believe that God justifies and sanctifies those who by grace have faith in Jesus, and that he will one day glorify them, all to the praise of his glorious grace.

In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set his saving love on those he has chosen and having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer.

We believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human, one Person in two natures.

The man Jesus, the promised Messiah of Israel, was conceived through the miraculous agency of the Holy Spirit, and was born of the virgin Mary. He perfectly obeyed his heavenly Father, lived a sinless life, performed miraculous signs, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven.

We believe that salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved.

The Gospel is the Good News of the life, death, burial, resurrection and kingly ascension of Jesus.

Jesus, the One who is fully God and fully Man, comes to Earth and announces the inauguration of the long-awaited Kingdom of God. Jesus lived a sinless life. He revealed the Father to mankind and in a very real sense lived the life we should have lived and dies the death we should have died.

Through His substitutionary death on the Cross and subsequent resurrection, He overcame the power of sin, death, and Satan and opened the door for mankind to be reconciled to the Father.

All who trust in Christ alone for their forgiveness and commit their lives to Him receive forgiveness and are adopted in His family.

Christ has ascended to the Father and is now reigning over all of the world’s circumstances. As the true King who has now been enthroned over all of creation, Christ is reigning until He returns and places all His enemies under His feet. On that day His Kingship will be fully acknowledged by the nations of the world and He will bring healing and peace to every part of redeemed humanity’s experience.

We believe that Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharged the debt of all those who are justified.

By his sacrifice, he bore in our stead the punishment due us for our sins, making a proper, real, and full satisfaction to Gods justice on our behalf.

By his perfect obedience he satisfied the just demands of God on our behalf, since by faith alone that perfect obedience is credited to all who trust in Christ alone for their acceptance with God.

We believe that this salvation, attested in all Scripture and secured by Jesus Christ, is applied to his people by the Holy Spirit.

He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, baptising them into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

The Holy Spirit is himself the down payment of the promised inheritance, and in this age indwells, guides, instructs, equips, revives, and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.

The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of Gods sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation.

The kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan’s dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that dark kingdom. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.

Living as salt in a world that is decaying and light in a world that is dark, believers should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it: rather, we are to do good to the city, for all the glory and honour of the nations is to be offered up to the living God.

Recognising whose created order this is, and because we are citizens of Gods kingdom, we are to love our neighbours as ourselves, doing good to all, especially to those who belong to the household of God.Good works constitute indispensable evidence of saving grace. Living as salt in a world that is decaying and light in a world that is dark, believers should neither withdraw into seclusion from the world, nor become indistinguishable from it: rather, we are to do good to the city, for all the glory and honour of the nations is to be offered up to the living God.

Recognizing whose created order this is, and because we are citizens of Gods kingdom, we are to love our neighbours as ourselves, doing good to all, especially to those who belong to the household of God.

The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of Gods sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation.

The kingdom of God is an invasive power that plunders Satan's dark kingdom and regenerates and renovates through repentance and faith the lives of individuals rescued from that dark kingdom. It therefore inevitably establishes a new community of human life together under God.

The church is the body of Christ, the apple of his eye, graven on his hands, and he has pledged himself to her forever. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members love for one another and for the world.

The church serves as a sign of Gods future new world when its members live for the service of one another and their neighbours, rather than for self-focus. The church is the corporate dwelling place of Gods Spirit, and the continuing witness to God in the world.

We believe that baptism and the Lords Supper are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself.

The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal.

Together they are simultaneously: Gods pledge to us, divinely ordained means of grace, our public vows of submission to the once crucified and now resurrected Christ, and anticipations of his return and of the consummation of all things.

We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will exercise his role as final Judge, and his kingdom will be consummated.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness.

On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished. God will be all in all and his people will be enthralled by the immediacy of his inexpressible holiness, and everything will be to the praise of his glorious grace.