Is to know Jesus and make him known.

Is to give every person in Sompting the opportunity to respond to God’s transforming message, by serving the community through a strong and growing church.

• Bring pleasure and honour to God
• Enjoy God and each other
• Honour Jesus as head of the church
• Submit to the bible as the Word of God
• Experience the fullness of the Spirit
• Make worship and prayer a priority
• Hold to the conviction that every person matters to God
• Promote a Christian community based on acceptance, respect, honesty and encouragement, and committing to resolving differences and conflict through forgiveness and reconciliation
• Take seriously our responsibility to proclaim the gospel of salvation to our community and beyond
• Be committed to developing a strong and creative working relationship with our local community
• Remember the importance of children and young people
• Develop Christian disciples who are being transformed into the likeness of Christ
• Maintain the Balance between Word and Spirit – learning about God and experiencing him
• Promote team leadership, nurturing the gifts of everyone in the church family and encouraging them to contribute to the life of the church
• Work with other local churches and be part of the worldwide church
• We subscribe to the Evangelical Alliance Statement of Faith

• The one true God who lives eternally in three persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
• The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
• The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God – fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
• The dignity of all people, made male and female in God’s image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
• The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ – born of the virgin Mary; truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
• The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
• The bodily resurrection of Christ, the first fruits of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
• The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
• The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
• The church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers — given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit’s gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
• The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.
• That our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, is the sole and absolute authority in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and that each church has liberty, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to interpret and administer His laws.
• That Christian Baptism is the immersion in water into the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, of those who have professed repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ who ‘died for our sins according to the Scriptures; was buried and rose again on the third day’.