What we believe
In the beginning God created a world of beauty and grandeur, a world in harmony with itself and with God, held together in his sovereign arms. Into this good world God placed humanity, created to cultivate the world on his behalf. Yet humanity chose its own destiny, fracturing its relationship with God and rupturing the harmony of creation.
But God did not abandon his creation to destruction and decay. Instead he made a promise: a promise to renew it all, to make it right. So he chose one man and his family, and through them, a people, and through this people, a king, to represent him to the world.
This King, Jesus; God himself made flesh; born of a virgin, preached good news to the poor and proclaimed the arrival of the kingdom of God as he healed the sick and forgave sins. He confronted the oppression of religion and political tyranny and was eventually tortured and executed.
In the face of such violence and opposition he remained faithful to God, offering up his humanity as a sacrifice of obedience, while simultaneously, and mysteriously, also bearing in his own body God’s judgement upon a rebellious humanity. Three days later he returned to life having pushed through death and come out the other side.
Those who trust Jesus as their king share this resurrection life, a life reconciled with God. They are empowered to live new lives, forgiven and free from the addiction of sin and the allure of idols, bound together into new relationships forged by God’s Spirit as they are called into a new life of worship, prayer and discipleship as they await the return of their king and the renewal of everything that is.
We embrace the Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith