We recognise Holy Scripture as the foundation of our faith, our life and our mission. In it we find the truth that confronts, transforms and leads us.
We recognise Holy Scripture as the foundation of our faith, our life and our mission. In it we find the truth that confronts, transforms and leads us.
We do not understand our existence only as a call to preach the Word, but also to live it with faithfulness, integrity and dependence on God.
In every church, culture and context where we are present, we seek to proclaim and demonstrate this truth honestly, biblically and responsibly.
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One God
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three distinct persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Dt 6.4
Hear, Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one.
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Mt 28.19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Mc 12.29
The foremost commandment begins: Hear, Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord.
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Holy Scripture
We believe in the verbal and plenary divine inspiration of Holy Scripture, the only infallible rule of faith and practice for Christian life and character.
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2Tm 3.14-17
Continue in what you have learned. All Scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, correction and training in righteousness.
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Jesus Christ
We believe in the conception and virgin birth of Jesus, fully God and fully man, in his vicarious and atoning death, his bodily resurrection from the dead and his victorious ascension to heaven.
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Is 7.14
The Lord will give a sign: the virgin will conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Mt 1.23
The virgin will conceive and bear a son called Immanuel, which means God with us.
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Rm 8.34
Christ died, was raised and is at the right hand of God, where he also intercedes for us.
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At 1.9
After saying these things, Jesus was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight.
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Human sinfulness
We believe in human sinfulness, which separated humanity from the glory of God, and that only repentance and faith in the atoning and redemptive work of Jesus Christ can restore people to God.
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Rm 3.23
All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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At 3.9
All the people saw the man walking and praising God.
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The new birth
We believe in the absolute necessity of the new birth by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ and through the active power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God, to make a person worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
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Jo 3.3-8
Jesus taught that one must be born again, of water and the Spirit, to enter the Kingdom of God.
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Ef 2.8-9
By grace you have been saved through faith. It is God's gift, not the result of works.
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Forgiveness and salvation
We believe in the forgiveness of sins, full salvation and justification by faith in the sacrifice made by Jesus Christ on our behalf.
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At 10.43
Everyone who believes in Jesus receives forgiveness of sins through his name.
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Rm 10.13
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
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Rm 3.24-26
We are justified freely by grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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Hb 7.25
Jesus is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he lives to intercede for them.
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Hb 5.9
Having been made perfect, Jesus became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.
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The Church
We believe in the Church, the pillar and foundation of truth, the one, holy and universal assembly of redeemed believers from every age and place, called out of the world by the Holy Spirit to follow Christ and worship God.
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Jo 4.23
True worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
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1Tm 3.15
God's household is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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Hb 12.23
You have come to the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven and to God, the judge of all.
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Ap 22.17
The Spirit and the bride say: Come. Let whoever is thirsty come and freely take the water of life.
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Baptism in water
We believe in biblical baptism by immersion in water, once, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, as the Lord Jesus Christ commanded.
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Mt 28.19
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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Rm 6.1-6
We were baptised into Christ's death and buried with him so that we might live a new life.
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Cl 2.12
In baptism you were buried with Christ and also raised with him through faith in the power of God.
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A holy life
We believe in the need and possibility of living a holy and blameless life through the work of the Holy Spirit, who enables us to live as faithful witnesses of Jesus Christ.
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Hb 9.14
The blood of Christ will cleanse our conscience from dead works so that we may serve the living God.
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1Pe 1.15
As the one who called you is holy, be holy in all your conduct.
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Marriage
We believe that marriage was instituted by God and affirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ as a lifelong union between a man and a woman, born male and female respectively, in accordance with genetically determined created sex.
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Gn 2.18
The Lord God said: It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make a suitable helper for him.
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Jo 2.1-2
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus and his disciples were invited.
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Gn 2.24
A man will leave father and mother, be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
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Gn 1.27
God created humanity in his image; male and female he created them.
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Baptism with the Holy Spirit
We believe in biblical baptism with the Holy Spirit, given to us by Jesus Christ, with the physical evidence of speaking in other tongues according to his will.
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At 1.5
John baptised with water, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.
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At 2.4
All were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
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At 10.44-46
The Holy Spirit fell on those hearing the Word, and they spoke in tongues and magnified God.
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At 19.1-7
Paul met disciples in Ephesus, taught them about Jesus, baptised them and laid hands on them; the Holy Spirit came upon them.
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Spiritual gifts
We believe in the present operation of spiritual gifts distributed by the Holy Spirit to the Church for its edification, according to his sovereign will and for what is useful.
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1Co 12.1-12
There are different gifts but the same Spirit, different kinds of service but the same Lord. The Spirit distributes to each for the common good.
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The second coming of Christ
We believe in the second coming of Christ in two distinct phases: first, invisible to the world, to take up his Church before the Great Tribulation; second, visible and bodily, with his glorified Church, to reign over the world for one thousand years.
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1Ts 4.16
The Lord will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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1Co 15.51-54
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a moment, at the sound of the last trumpet.
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Ap 20.4
Those who remained faithful lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
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Jd 14
Behold, the Lord comes with thousands of his holy ones.
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The judgement seat of Christ
We believe in the appearance before the judgement seat of Christ of all Christians who have been taken up, to receive the reward for their deeds in support of Christ's cause on Earth.
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2Co 5.10
We must all appear before the judgement seat of Christ, so that each may receive according to what was done.
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The final judgement
We believe in the final judgement, where those who are part of the last resurrection will be judged, and in eternal life of joy and happiness for the faithful, and sadness and torment for the unfaithful.
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Mt 25.46
Some will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.
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Ap 20.11-15
Before the great white throne, the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books.
