Along with other Christian churches, our Presbyterian Church upholds historic Christianity as given in the Bible and held through the ages.

 

We believe:

1.In one God- the Trinity of the three persons: Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
2.We affirm the real historic events of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection and look to him for forgiveness of sins and a sure hope of eternal life.
3.We see ourselves as now being part of the one true church of Jesus on earth and eagerly look forward to the return of Jesus and His eternal kingdom.
4.We receive the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament as the Word of God and look to them as the rule of faith and life.

The Presbyterian understanding of Christianity is summarised in the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646, as understood in the light of the Declaratory Statement adopted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia in 1901. The Westminster Confession contains what might be called a "reformed" or "Calvinist" outlook. That is, Presbyterians tend to emphasise God's initiative and activity in such important matters as knowing God and being saved. God's initiative is not taken as lessening the need for human responsibility and action, but rather as meeting the conditions under which the human response occurs. The Declaratory Statement seeks to safeguard the church against misinterpretations of the Confession and acts as an official commentary to it.

 

 

More about us and the Presbyterian Church

As part of the redeemed people of God, having been brought out of darkness into Gods light through faith in Jesus Christ, the Presbyterian Church  seeks to glorify and enjoy God - as Father, Son and Holy Spirit - serving, Loving and obeying him, in the light of his revealed Word, the Bible.

The Presbyterian Church holds the Bible to be the inspired and inerrant revelation of God, a book fully trustworthy to guide the Church in all matters of faith and practice. Embracing this particular view of inspiration of Scripture means that our work and witness has distinctive guiding values, these being expressed in what is known as:

•reformed doctrines and church practice.
•the confessional position of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1647).