Welcome to Carey Hill

We affirm our belief in the one-eternal God, Creator and Lord of the world, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who governs all things according to the purpose of his will. He has been calling out from the world a people for himself, and sending his people back into the world to be his servants and his witnesses, for the extension of his kingdom, the building up of Christ’s body, and the glory of his name. We confess with shame that we have often denied our calling and failed in our mission, by becoming conformed to the world or by withdrawing from it. Yet we rejoice that even when borne by earthen vessels the gospel is still a precious treasure. To the task of making that treasure known in the power of the Holy Spirit we desire to dedicate ourselves anew. 

ISA. 40:28; MATT. 28:19; EPH. 1:11

We affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. We also affirm the power of God’s word to accomplish his purpose of salvation. The message of the Bible is addressed to all men and women. For God’s revelation in Christ and in Scripture is unchangeable. Through it the Holy Spirit still speaks today. He illumines the minds of God’s people in every culture to perceive its truth freshly through their own eyes and thus discloses to the whole Church ever more of the many-colored wisdom of God.

II TIM. 3:16; II PET. 1:21; JOHN 10:35

We affirm that there is only one Saviour and only one gospel, although there is a wide diversity of evangelistic approaches. We recognise that everyone has some knowledge of God through his general revelation in nature. But we deny that this can save, for people suppress the truth by their unrighteousness. We also reject as derogatory to Christ and the gospel every kind of syncretism and dialogue which implies that Christ speaks equally through all religions and ideologies. Jesus Christ, being himself the only God-man, who gave himself as the only ransom for sinners, is the only mediator between God and people. There is no other name by which we must be saved. All men and women are perishing because of sin, but God loves everyone, not wishing that any should perish but that all should repent. Yet those who reject Christ repudiate the joy of salvation and condemn themselves to eternal separation from God. To proclaim Jesus as “the Saviour of the world” is not to affirm that all people are either automatically or ultimately saved, still less to affirm that all religions offer salvation in Christ. Rather it is to proclaim God’s love for a world of sinners and to invite everyone to respond to him as Saviour and Lord in the wholehearted personal commitment of repentance and faith. Jesus Christ has been exalted above every other name; we long for the day when every knee shall bow to him and every tongue shall confess him Lord.

GAL. 1:6-9;ROM. 1:18-32; I TIM. 2:5,6; ACTS 4:12

• WE BELIEVE there is but one living and true God, creator of all things,
  infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy
  Spirit. Each is worthy of our worship, trust and obedience.
• WE BELIEVE that Jesus Christ is true God and true man, conceived by the
  Holy Spirit and born of a virgin.  He lived a sinless life and made atonement for
  our sins by His death on the cross.  He arose bodily from the dead and
  ascended into heaven where, at the right hand of the Father, He is now our
  High Priest and Advocate.
• WE BELIEVE the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, to be the
  inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God.  The scriptures are the supreme
  and final authority in all matters about which they speak.
• WE BELIEVE that man was created in the image of God to glorify and enjoy
  Him forever.  Men fell into sin by a willful act of disobedience to God; and
  consequently, all human beings are born with a sinful nature, commit acts of
  sin, and are eternally separated from God apart from salvation through Christ.
• WE BELIEVE that the death of Jesus Christ and His bodily
  resurrection provide the only ground of justification for all who believe.  This
  salvation is not obtained by human effort or merit, but is entirely a free gift of
  God’s grace received through faith in Jesus Christ.  God Himself will make
  the faith of all genuine believers persevere to the end, so that no child of God
  will ever be lost again.
• WE BELIEVE that all Christians will yet experience temporary personal sin
  and spiritual warfare in this life; but from the moment of salvation, God has
  provided the means for overcoming these in the truth of the Scriptures, the
  power of Christ through the indwelling Spirit, and the encouragement of the
  believers.
• WE BELIEVE in the personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ to earth in
  sovereign power and glory to visibly establish His righteous rule over creation therefore this is our hope that affects our daily life and service as believers. 
• WE BELIEVE in the bodily resurrection of the dead, of the believer to
  everlasting blessedness and joy in the presence of God, and of the unbeliever
  to judgment and everlasting punishment apart from God.