What We Believe
We, as a centre of theological learning, affirm the following.
1. The Holy Scriptures:
We believe that the Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God, the only authoritative rule for faith and practice. We affirm its sufficiency, clarity, and authority in all matters to which it speaks.
2. The Triune God:
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-equal and co-eternal, distinct in their personal properties, yet undivided in essence. The Trinity is sovereign in creation, providence and redemption.
3. God the Father:
We believe in God the Father, the Creator, Sustainer, and Ruler of all things, who, according to his own good pleasure and for his own glory, foreordains whatsoever comes to pass.
4. God the Son:
We believe in Jesus Christ, the eternally begotten of the Father. Since his incarnation, he is truly God and man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. We believe in his sinless life, his substitutionary and atoning death, his bodily resurrection, his ascension to the right hand of the Father, and his future personal return in glory.
5. God the Holy Spirit:
We believe in God the Holy Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, regenerates sinners, indwells believers, and empowers them for service.
6. Creation:
We believe that God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them out of nothing and that humanity was created in God’s image. As a result of this indelible stamp of divinity, all human beings have an innate dignity irrespective of their beliefs, sexuality or practice.
7. The Fall:
We believe that Adam and Eve, our first parents, fell into sin and that all humanity inherits their fallen nature and stands condemned before God. Therefore, all humans have an image defaced by sin, deviate from God’s design, commit sin, and inherit eternal punishment.
8. Salvation:
We believe that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, to the glory of God alone. We believe that God elected a people to himself before the foundation of the world and that Christ died for their sins. We believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates and justifies sinners through the gift of repentance and that God’s power keeps them through faith unto salvation.
9. The Church:
We believe in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, the body of Christ, composed of all true believers. We believe in the importance of the local church, prayer, the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the ministry of the Word as the means to fight against Satan, the world and the self and grow in enjoying the Father, Son and Spirit. We are committed to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to his Church and to furnishing her with servants who will make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe all things that Christ has commanded.
10. The Return of Christ and Eternal State:
We believe in the personal, visible, and glorious return of Jesus Christ to judge the living and the dead. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the righteous in the presence of God, and the eternal conscious punishment of the wicked.
