South Banks Community Church Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.

• That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written
• That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct ·  2 Timothy 3:16

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ

• In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory
• In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, and bodily resurrection
• In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry, and personal return

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and in the personality of the Holy Spirit

• Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment
• Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ
• Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him

Mankind

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God

• That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state
• That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement
• That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God

• That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death
• That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
• That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord

A praying & worshiping community of believers... 

Leading people to the light; helping this generation become fully devoted followers of Christ; giving people a place to belong. Matthew 28:19-20

As an independent non-denominational church, South Banks Community Church believes; The Bible to be the divinely inspired and inerrant word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Man is by nature a sinner. Psalm 51:5. 

Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, virgin born, died on the cross for our sins, was raised from the dead and is coming again. Matthew 1:18; Hebrew 4:15, I Corinthians 15:3-4, John 14:3. 

Salvation is a free gift given by God's grace received by faith. Ephesians 2:8-9. 

Baptism in water by immersion as a believer's professing Jesus as Lord. Acts 8:36-39. 

The church is the body of Christ and the bride of Christ. Ephesians 5:25-33, I Corinthians 12. 

The church is to carry out the great commission, Christ's last command on earth. Matthew 28:19-20. 

Believers are endowed with spiritual gifts which enable them to minister in the church. Ephesians 4:11-13. 

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is God's empowering the believer to carry out God's purposes on the earth. Acts 2:18. 

The church is governed by elders; godly people who help lead the church. Titus 1:5-9. 

Church government should be simplistic rather than a complex bureaucracy, dependent upon the Holy Spirit to lead, rather than human promotion. The spiritual leadership serves up under the lead pastor to help take the church in the direction of the Holy Spirit's leading.