Faith Community Church

About Us

Faith Community Church is a local, autonomous fellowship of Bible-believing Christians.  We are believers in Christ of different age groups and from different backgrounds.  We meet for the common purpose of worshipping and serving the Lord Jesus Christ together and making Him known in our community.

 
OUR PURPOSE

Faith Community Church exists in order to fully know God and His Son Jesus Christ - "that we may present everyone mature in Christ Jesus”    (Colossians 1v28 TNIV)

 
OUR VISION

(what achieving this purpose will look like)

1)  Worship – loving God:

a) Desiring and enjoying God and his Son Jesus Christ above all else (Psalm 73v25-26; 1 Peter 1v8).

b) Praising and acknowledging God Sunday to Saturday (Romans 12:1-2; Hebrews 13v15-16).

2) Fellowship – loving one another:

a) Really knowing and loving one another deeply (Philippians 1v11) and accepting one another unconditionally (Romans 15v7).

b) Using whatever gifts we have received to serve one another with God’s strength (1 Peter 4v10-11).

3) Discipleship – loving others:

a) Making God and His Son Jesus Christ known to our friends, neighbours and colleagues that they may know him too (Matt 28v18-20).

b) Being transformed into the character of our Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 4v19).

What we believe

1.  There is one God, eternally co-existing in three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28v18, 2 Corinthians 13v14)

2.  The Bible is God's written revelation to man, inspired, inerrant and authoritative, the sole authority for all our beliefs and practices (2Timothy 3v16-17)

3.  Jesus Christ is true God and true man, born of a virgin, sinless, crucified for the sins of mankind, risen from death, ascended into heaven, exalted to the place of highest authority (Romans 5v6-8, 8v34;  Philippians 2v6-8; Colossians 2v9; Hebrews 7v26; 1Peter 3v18; 1John 2v2)

4.  Mankind was created in the image of God, separated from God by sin and now sinful by nature and by practice, unable by any personal effort or worth to enter God’s presence (Gen 1:26, Rom 3v9-20, 5v12-21; Eph 2v8-9)

5.  By personal repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, individuals may experience complete forgiveness of sins and be born again into God’s family, receiving the gift of eternal life and being saved by grace from God’s wrath (Acts 2v38, 3v19, 20v21; Romans 3v21-26)

6.  The Holy Spirit is a person of the Godhead, performing the miracle of the new birth in non-believers, indwelling them as believers and enabling them to live godly lives (John 3v1-8, Gal 5v16)

7.  The church as the body of Christ is comprised of all those who have been made alive by the Holy Spirit as they repent and believe in Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour (Acts 2v38-47)

8.  Since every Christian has the Spirit residing within them (Romans 8v9,11) believers in Christ will inevitably give demonstration to their new birth by works produced by the Spirit (Acts 26v20; Galatians 5v19-23; James 2 v 14-26).  This is often referred to as sanctification.

9.  Though sanctification will occur in varying degrees and does not mean that believers will not sin ( 1 John 1 v8-2v2; e.g. 2Samuel 11), the Bible promises that it will indeed occur as a general pattern (Romans 8v29-30; 2Corinithians 3v18; Philippians 1v6, 2v13).