WHO WE ARE

What We Believe

We want to clearly communicate what we believe to our community and the world: the essential and clear doctrines of the Bible.

Our Mission, Values and Statement of Belief are listed below. We always welcome any additional questions you may have.

Mission

Growing together as Jesus’ disciples and going out to
make disciples.

Our Values

Jesus called all His followers to become disciples who make disciples and that is exactly what we want to do as a church. We are committed to encouraging and equipping each other to move from initial repentance and faith in Christ, to engaging in the mission of multiplying faithful disciples of the Lord Jesus.

From this commitment, there are three core values that define the culture of our church and guide everything that we do. The following are the simple steps that are asked of every follower of Christ and guide everything that we do as a church.

1. Worship

Jesus said the greatest commandment is to “Love the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind” (Matt. 22:37). He was talking about a life of worship – the continuous outpouring of all that we are to God.

All that we do as a church is centred around passionate praise, personal prayer, devoted study, and joyful obedience.

2. Love

Jesus said the identifying mark of His followers would be their love for each other (John 13:35). We are committed to following the example of Jesus by loving one another faithfully, practically, and sacrificially.

We are convinced the best means for cultivating friendship and creating opportunities to love another well is through small groups. Thus small groups for all ages are our primary ministry focus outside of Sunday mornings.

3. Serve

We seek to follow the example of Jesus, who came not to be served but to serve (Mark 10:43-45). Our love for God and others is expressed in action and so we serve others, both inside and outside the church, with humility and compassion.

We seek to do this by embracing opportunities to serve our neighborhood as a church and caring for our own neighbours as well.

Statement of Belief

Our Statement of Belief is a declaration of the truths that unite us in ministry. The following is a summary of essential truths about God and His works.

The Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six books, as originally written, comprising the Old and New Testaments, were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice, and the true basis of Christian union.

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; Who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.

Satan

We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the archenemy of God and man.

Man

We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of the Lord.

The Local Church

We believe that a church is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the church. We believe that its officers are pastors and deacons.

Ordinances

We believe that there are only two ordinances for the church, regularly observed in the New Testament, in the following order:

Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water, whereby he obeys Christ’s command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
The Lord’s Supper, which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord’s body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes.

Church and State

We believe in the entire separation of church and state.

Religious Liberty

We believe in religious liberty; that every man has the right to practice and propagate his beliefs.

Civil Government

We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except only in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of the conscience and Prince of the kings of the earth.