Our Mission, Values and Beliefs  

Our Mission Statement

Our mission as a church is to build a vibrant community of disciples of Jesus Christ who love God, love one another, love life, and who are committed to see God’s kingdom* established in our community and our world.

*By establishing God’s kingdom we mean seeing God’s will done on earth and his power and authority released to change lives and to transform society.

Our Values

To fulfil our mission we are committed as a church to be God-centred, loving, prophetic, purposeful and people-empowering, and our vibrancy as a community will stem from the embodiment of these values in a way that is attractive, inclusive, non-religious, and naturally supernatural.

God-centred

Our core belief is that God is love, and that his love is perfectly revealed to every individual through the incarnation, life, death and resurrection of his son, Jesus Christ. Our response to this amazing love is a deep commitment to put him at the centre of every aspect of our lives and for creative expressions of our worship and a passion for prayer to remain firmly at the heart of our life as a church.

Loving

We see the church as a loving, caring family with a deep commitment to maintain real and open relationships, to serve and support one another, and to provide an inclusive environment in which every person can find refuge, new hope and a sense of belonging.

Prophetic

As part of God’s deep concern for the well-being of every person, he longs to speak to us individually, and to touch our lives with his transforming power. As disciples of Jesus, he has called us to be a prophetic people who become his voice and his hands, bringing heaven to earth and communicating his heart for people through our words and actions.

Purposeful

Our primary purpose as a church is to obey Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples” by reaching out to connect with people, proclaiming the good news, praying for their needs, healing the sick, demonstrating God’s love, teaching God’s Word, and training people in whole-life discipleship.

People-empowering

We do not see church in terms of minister and congregation but as a community where everyone has a vital role to play, and where ordinary people are equipped, enabled and released to live extraordinary lives as ambassadors of God’s kingdom in their homes, families, neighbourhoods, social circles and workplaces.

Our doctrinal beliefs

As members of the Evangelical Alliance, we ascribe to the EA Basis of faith, which sets out core Christian beliefs held by evangelical Christians of all denominations. We believe in...

1.      The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

2.      The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.

3.      The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.

4.      The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.

5.      The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary, truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.

6.      The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.

7.      The bodily resurrection of Christ, the firstfruit of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.

8.      The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.

9.      The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.

10.   The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers—given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.

11.   The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.