What we believe.
Grounded in the Bible, centred on Jesus, and shaped by the historic Christian faith.
Good news worth building a life on.
Christian faith begins with what God has done for us—not with what we manage to do for God.
We believe the one true God has made himself known in Jesus Christ. In love, Jesus lived, died, and rose again to rescue sinners and renew his world. Salvation is God's gift, received by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
These convictions shape our preaching, worship, pastoral care, and life together.
- The Bible is God's trustworthy Word
and our final authority for faith and life. - Humanity is created with dignity but marked by sin
and unable to rescue itself from God's just judgement. - Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God
who became human, died for our sins, rose bodily, and reigns as Lord. - Salvation is God's free gift
by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. - The Holy Spirit gives new life
and forms believers into a people who love God and serve their neighbours.
Creeds and confessions.
We stand with Christians across the centuries and around the world, while gladly receiving the particular gifts of the Reformed tradition.
The ecumenical creeds express the shared heart of Christian faith. The Reformed confessions give a fuller account of how the Bible teaches us to understand grace, salvation, the church, and the Christian life.
An early summary of apostolic teaching confessed by Christians worldwide. It names the central Christian convictions about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Christ's death and resurrection; the church; forgiveness; and the life to come.
Read the Apostles' CreedFormulated at Nicaea and Constantinople, this creed carefully expresses the biblical doctrine of the Trinity and the full divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ.
Read the Nicene CreedThis creed offers a detailed explanation of the Trinity and of Jesus Christ as fully God and fully human, protecting the church's confession of the triune God.
Read the Athanasian CreedWritten in 1563 and arranged around guilt, grace, and gratitude, the Heidelberg Catechism is loved for its warm and personal account of the comfort Christians have in belonging to Jesus.
What is your only comfort in life and in death?Read the Heidelberg Catechism
That I am not my own, but belong—body and soul, in life and in death—to my faithful Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Dating from 1561, this confession is a comprehensive and pastoral statement of Reformed teaching about Scripture, God, creation, salvation, the church, and Christian life.
Read the Belgic ConfessionFormulated in 1618–1619, the Canons celebrate God's sovereign grace in salvation and the comfort that our rescue rests in his faithful hands from beginning to end.
Read the Canons of DordtCome, listen, and ask questions.
Our beliefs are not museum pieces. We seek to live them out in worship, friendship, service, repentance, and hope.