What we believe
Christian
We are a Christian Church. Jesus Christ is our Lord and our Saviour. With Christians throughout history and all over the world we believe what the Bible teaches about who Christ is and what he has done, summarised in the four great creeds: the Apostles’ creed, the Nicene creed, the Chalcedon creed and the Athanasian creed.
Reformed
We are a Reformed Church. This means we stand in the tradition of the reformation which says:
Though reason and tradition are important, the Bible alone is the final authority for what we are to believe and how we are to live.
The Bible teaches that we need to be saved from our sin, and that salvation is found in Christ alone.
The only way to receive Jesus is by faith alone. That is by trusting him and not relying on ourselves and our good deeds.
Therefore our salvation is by God’s grace alone. We do not and cannot earn it.
And so the glory belongs to God alone.
Presbyterian
We are a Presbyterian Church. Following the Reformation, Reformed churches wrote several documents that were designed to outline Christian belief in greater detail. As a Presbyterian church we hold to three of these documents called the Westminster Standards, which can be found here:
Westminster Confession of Faith
Westminster Larger Catechism
Westminster Shorter Catechism
The term ‘Presbyterian’ comes from the Bible’s word for elder. So our church will be led locally by a group of elders who are supported and kept accountable for what they teach and how they live by a wider group of elders of other churches known as a ‘presbytery.’