We are a reformed baptist church holding to the doctrines of grace. We believe the following:
1. The full inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; their authority and sufficiency as not only containing but as being in themselves the Word of God. The necessity for a reverent faith in the Word, and the teaching of the Holy Spirit, for a true understanding of the whole.
2. There is one living and true God, united in three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, co-equal and co-eternal. God is sovereign in creation, providence and redemption.
3. The total depravity of human nature in consequence of the Fall of man from the original state of perfection in which he was created; by which fall all mankind is in a state of condemnation and separation from a holy God, and can only be delivered by the divine work of regeneration and redemption.
4. From eternity God freely loved His people and chose them to salvation in Christ.
5. The true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His real and perfect manhood; the authority of His teaching and the infallibility of all He said; His substitutionary death on the cross as being the full and sufficient and only atonement for sins; His bodily resurrection and His ascension into heaven; His present priestly intercession for His people; His personal return to earth in glory.
6. Particular Redemption, i.e. Christ laid down His life for His people, the elect, and not for all mankind.
7. The justification of the sinner solely by faith, through the atoning merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
8. The work of regeneration, conversion, sanctification and faith as being not an act of man’s free will and power, but of the mighty, effective and irresistible grace of God, through the Holy Spirit.
9. All those chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and sanctified by the Spirit, shall certainly and finally persevere, so that not one of them shall perish but shall have everlasting life.
10. The resurrection of the body; the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the redeemed, and the eternal punishment of the ungodly.
11. The observance of the divine institution of the baptism of believers by immersion, in loving obedience and as an act of witness, but not as conveying any regenerating grace. The observance of the Lord’s Supper as a commemoration of our Lord’s death, but not as being a sacrifice for sin nor involving any change in the substance of the bread and wine.
12. The sole authority and prerogative of Christ, through the Holy Spirit, speaking in his Word, for the government of the church.
We hold to the 35 articles of the Gospel Standard, which can be read here
These articles, along with other publications, are available in print here
