"There are two types of people in the world: those who live a life that they don't have, and those who have a life that they don't live." [I think it was Ian Thomas who said this]

• To my mind, this second category so eloquently describes the Christian.
• We hold to the fundamental evangelical truths. We believe:
• in the Trinity
• in the inspiration & the inerrancy of scripture
• that Jesus Christ, the second member of the Godhead, was born of a virgin
• in a literal creation and fall
• in the substitionary death of Christ which was provided universal propitiation of sin
• in the resurrection & ascension of Christ
• in the new life hidden in Christ, by grace through faith
• in the second coming of Christ
• in an eternal consciousness of either the presence or the absence of Christ

In addition, or perhaps because of these fundamental truths, we also believe: in the indissoluble union between the Son & His Sons, that not only are we safe as sons but as we abide in him we become safe sons

• that there is a clear division between the Old and New Covenant dispensations ['Law' & 'Grace'], and a Christian is not under Law, but under Grace
• all our sins, past, present & future [and indeed those of the entire world, lost or saved] have been forgiven
• in universal forgiveness, not universal salvation. The sins of the world have been forgiven, but the sin of the world ["unbelief", Jn 16:9] cannot be 'forgiven of', it must be 'repented from'
• that nothing needs to be added to the finished work of Christ, and that to add to the Cross is to detract from it
• the very nature of salvation [the reception of eternal, divine life as a free, unmerited, unconditional gift of God] means the believer is eternally secure
• that salvation is a work of God for man, and not a work of man for God or even a joint-venture. It is all of God, and none of man
• that sanctification is "by grace through faith, and not of works that any man should boast" [Col 2:6]
• that tithing is not a new covenant principle [see article "The Tithing Controversy - No Laughing Matter"]
• the kingdom of heaven is within
• that the gospel promises deliverance from both the penalty and the power of sin