What We Believe

We believe that men, women and children were born to have a relationship with God. However, there is a gulf that separates us from knowing Him personally, and nothing we can do can bridge that chasm. God so loved us that He wasn’t content to let that situation continue, so He devised a plan to reinstate the relationship between us and Him.

He had a dearly loved son, Jesus Christ, and He sent Jesus to earth to show us how we can have a deep personal relationship with God and also to bridge the gap between us and Himself.

The problem was that God had set conditions that had to be met to enable us to be reunited with Him, and that entailed a life being exchanged in our place. So, Jesus gave His life in our place so that we can be reunited with God.We believe God is a loving Father – not the remote, austere deity that He is sometimes (often?) portrayed, and in fact, we can have a close, meaningful bond with Him.

God is a God of grace, which means we do not have to try and earn His love or acceptance. As individuals, we have always been loved by God for He is a God of love. There is nothing we can do to make Him love us more or to make Him love us less.

God the Father is made known to us through accepting the teachings of His Son, Jesus, by believing what He said and did. The Holy Spirit, the third person of God, has been given to help us understand the writings in the bible and aid us in our Christian walk. He brings God’s heart and mind to us so that we can know God personally.

We believe that the church should reflect who God is, and through gathering with like-minded Christian people, we can find strength, companionship and partnership in our faith. We can come to God whenever we want or have need to, confident that He will accept us as we are. We don’t have to put on any airs or graces on as He knows all about us already.

We can enjoy His presence and worship Him for who He is and for what He has done in our lives.

You can read more about what we believe through the Discovery training material.