The basis of the Fellowship shall be the fundamental
truths of Christianity, as revealed in Holy Scripture,
including:
- There is one God in three persons, the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit.
- God is sovereign in creation, revelation,
redemption and final judgement.
- The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired
and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme
authority in all matters of belief and behaviour.
- Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful
and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath
and condemnation.
- The Lord Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is
fully God; he was born of a virgin; his humanity is
real and sinless; he died on the cross, was raised
bodily from death and is now reigning over heaven and
earth.
- Sinful human beings are redeemed from the guilt,
penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial
death once and for all time of their representative
and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator
between them and God.
- Those who believe in Christ are pardoned all their
sins and accepted in God's sight only because of the
righteousness of Christ credited to them; this
justification is God's act of undeserved mercy,
received solely by trust in him and not by their own
efforts.
- The Holy Spirit alone makes the work of Christ
effective to individual sinners, enabling them to turn
to God from their sin and to trust in Jesus Christ.
- The Holy Spirit lives in all those he has
regenerated. He makes them increasingly Christlike in
character and behaviour and gives them power for their
witness in the world.
- The one holy universal church is the Body of
Christ, to which all true believers belong.
- The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to
judge everyone, to execute God's just condemnation on
those who have not repented and to receive the
redeemed to eternal glory.
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