The Church we see is...

...growing in strong relationships

 A Church that serves the community, quickly connects people with God and with each other

...growing in involvement

A Church that quickly connects people and releases them into the freedom and gifting that God has for them.

...growing in influence

 A Church made up of people who live for the Kingdom of God in all areas of life: eg education, business, commerce, police, government, media, arts, health, family life and social care etc.

...growing in impact

...growing in leadership

 A Church that is sharp in all it does, where its leaders passionately model our values - and that releases & equips younger leaders

What do we believe?

The Bible
We believe the Bible is the true and complete story of who God is, what He has done, what He is doing and what He will do. God inspired human writers to write the books of the Bible and so it reflects their backgrounds, styles, and use of language. The Bible is the final authority on all matters to which it speaks. It teaches that:

God
There is one God, who exists as three persons living in perfect community — Father, Son, and Spirit. God created everything and sustains everything by his life. He is holy, all-powerful, all-knowing, unchanging, and full of mercy and grace.

Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, God's Son, became fully human when he was born to the virgin Mary. He was fully human and yet fully God. He lived a perfect life; then died, as our substitute, the death we deserved to die because of our selfishness towards God; and physically rose from the dead. He offers us full life by the promise of his own resurrection. He then ascended into heaven and today is our representative before God the Father.

Real life
We connect to God in only one way — by choosing to accept the offer of forgiveness and reconciliation God offers to us by Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. If we ask him to, God treats us as if we were Jesus, because he treated Jesus as if he were us. God's gift of grace makes us His adopted sons and daughters. There is nothing we can do to deserve this life — it is completely a gift of God, and our responsibility is simply to receive it freely. When we do, God begins the process of changing our hearts and minds from the inside out and making our characters more and more like Jesus'. And as our relationship with God grows so also we highly value our friendships with other people. 

Holy Spirit
We experience the full life and presence of God in our relationship with the Holy Spirit, who convicts us of sin, points us to Jesus Christ, and applies Christ's work to our lives. He gives gifts and power to the church and he is the one who creates community in the church. He reveals truth and guides our lives, individually and together.

Christ's return
In His own time God will bring the world as we know it to an end. According to his promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly to judge the living and the dead and to begin the new era of God's universally visible reign which will last forever. Heaven and hell are very real places!

The Church
If we are in relationship with God through Jesus Christ, we are part of the Church. The Church is universal, but is always expressed locally. The Church is the visible and local demonstration of the new community Jesus came to create. The Holy Spirit guides and leads our community life as we are devoted to worshiping God, understanding and applying the Bible to our lives, offering love to others, living life together, and using our Spirit-given gifts to serve Christ and others.

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