The Baptist Church in Richill Park is not a building. It is the community of believers that meet inside the building. The purpose of our church is to regulate our life together as a company of redeemed people in a way that is thoroughly biblical and immensely practical. We hold to the biblical and historical truths of the Christian faith which are essential. We seek to have fellowship together in the spirit of Christian love and unity that: honours our Lord Jesus Christ, disciples believers to maturity of faith and extends the kingdom of God through the salvation of others. You are welcome to come and worship with us.

Articles of Faith

1. We believe that the Bible as originally given is God¹s verbally inspired Word and is totally trustworthy and free from error. We believe in the Scriptures sole sufficiency and final authority in all matters of faith and practice.

2. We believe in the one true and living God in three Persons, the Holy Trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, co-equal and co-eternal, sovereign and active in creation, providence and redemption.

3. We believe in the essential deity and perfect humanity of the Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His real and sinless manhood, His sacrificial death on the cross as the only substitute for sinners, His burial, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father and His priestly intercession for all who come to God through Him.

4. We believe that mankind was created by God in His own image. Through Adam¹s disobedience sin entered into the world. As a result every man is born spiritually dead in sin and of himself he can never please God. Therefore all mankind is subject to God¹s wrath and condemnation.

5. We believe that rebirth by the Holy Spirit is essential to enable sinners to be reconciled to God and to receive eternal life. After rebirth the believer is sealed, indwelt, sanctified and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

6. We believe that the justification of the sinner is by God¹s grace, through faith alone, in the atoning merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

7. We believe in the eternal security of the believer.

8. We believe in the personality of the devil; his evil activity and final doom.

9. We believe in the local gathered Church as a company of baptised believers under the headship of Christ for worship, fellowship, and instruction. We believe that God has commissioned the Church to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ at home and abroad, by all means consistent with the nature of the Gospel, and that God commands all men to repent and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins.

10. We believe in believers baptism as commanded by the New Testament, signifying the believers cleansing, death and resurrection with Christ. This is fully symbolised as the believer is baptised by immersion.

11. We believe in observing on the first day of the week the Lord¹s Supper as instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, and that such observance is by those believers who, from the work of grace in their hearts, show forth fruits of righteousness.

12. We believe in the offices of elder and deacon, the gifts of evangelists and pastor - teacher, the priesthood of all believers and their unity in the Body of Christ; the separation of Church and State.

13. We believe in the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the body, the day of judgment, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and the conscious eternal punishment in hell of all those who die unregenerate.

14. We believe in the responsibility of all believers to obey and serve the Lord and to live self controlled, upright and godly lives. The duty of each local Church to exercise godly discipline in a loving and caring fashion.