As a church we have adopted 5 key principles that continually remind us of what we believe:
- CHRIST CENTRED – we seek to glorify Jesus and have him at the centre of everything we do. He is the one in whom we find life, breath and salvation. We depend on God as we pray in Jesus’s name.
- GOSPEL FOCUSED – we proclaim the truth that by nature we are sinners who reject God, but Jesus is our Saviour who has rescued us from our sin by dying on the cross, and has transformed us to live a new life in him.
- BIBLICALLY BASED – we believe the Bible to be the infallible Word of God. We are formed by Scripture and not by worldly morality. We believe that Scripture is the primary way that God speaks to his people today.
- SPIRIT LED – we worship the triune God and we acknowledge the Holy Spirit as the one who convicts us of our sin, and opens our naturally blind eyes to Jesus. He also equips us to follow Christ in our everyday lives.
- MISSION MINDED – we desire to see unbelieving people become faithful followers of Jesus Christ, and we endeavour to share the gospel with the people in our town and beyond.
Additionally, as part of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland we adhere to the theological statements in the Westminster Confession of Faith. This document contains core Christian beliefs that help as guideposts guarding against error.
We believe in one Godhead, comprising of three persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Central to our belief is that Jesus of Nazareth is the son of God, who was sent into the world to save the world from their sins through his death on the cross and his resurrection to life. And through the power of the Holy Spirit, God draws us into relationship with him where we put our faith and hope in Jesus’ life, death and resurrection, granting us the free gift of eternal life.
We believe that God made all men and women in his image, and he has appointed our times and places in his creation. We also believe that God is truly sovereign over his creation, from beginning to end.
We believe in God’s truth as expressed in his word, the bible, and when such truth is spoken and applied by the Holy Spirit, a person’s heart (that is naturally dead by sin) becomes alive in Christ.
We believe God calls us to be part of his family. Locally that family is called a church, where people join for corporate worship as God’s treasured possession upon the earth. The Spirit makes that church a living building, and we are given the task to be Christ’s witnesses in the world.
We believe in the baptism of children of believing parents.
We also agree with the central truths outlined by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.