Our Beliefs.
Our Core Values
Our church is committed to these values and as such they are an integral part of Gunnedah Anglican.
Bible Teaching and Prayer
The Bible is God’s Word and our authority in all matters of faith and practice.
We seek to express Biblical truth in a away that is relevant and that will lead us to grow in godliness and honour Jesus as our Saviour and Lord.
Prayer is an expression of our dependence on a relationship with God.
Meeting Together
The local ordering of God’s family is a key part of our life and witness to those around us.
Loving People
Every person is made in God’s image and is therefore precious to Him.
God calls His people to love others by pointing them to Jesus in word and deed.
Evangelism
Locally and globally, individually and together, we will engage in the work of presenting Jesus the Lord Jesus to a lost and world.
Godly Leadership and Spiritual Growth
Following the example of Jesus, our leaders seek to spiritually equip, feed and guide those in their care - through teaching, training, nurturing, and example.
God calls us to grow in our love for Jesus as we follow Him.
Excellence
We work for God so we seek to bring glory to God by pursuing a quality of life that is excellent in our community.
What we believe.
In line with Biblical truth and our Anglican heritage we believe in:
The Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; three distinct Persons co-equal in Glory and co-eternal in majesty and of one substantial Godhead, such that there are not three gods but one God.
The Holy Scriptures as divine revelation, inerrantly inspired by God, carrying the full measure of His authority, containing all things necessary to salvation, and to be submitted to in all matters of faith and practice of life.
The one Saviour of mankind, Jesus Christ, who in His person is both fully God and fully man; of one substance with the Father in regard to his Godhead, and at the same time of one substance with us in regard to his manhood.
The perfect obedience of Christ, His true and actual suffering, His substitutionary and atoning death on the cross, His bodily resurrection and ascension as the only means given for our salvation and reconciliation with God.
God’s Holy Spirit is given to all believers at conversion so they might be convicted of their sinful nature and need for Christ as their saviour. And that God’s Spirit is subsequently alive and dwells within the Christian to cause ongoing repentance, faith and the ability to act in a Godly manner.
Faith alone as the only grounds for the righteousness of Christ being imputed to us for our justification before God (justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone).
The return of Jesus Christ in glory to judge the living and the dead, and a belief in the bodily resurrection from the dead of all people and their entrance into either eternal damnation or everlasting life and communion with God.
The one, holy, catholic (“that which is of the whole”), and apostolic church as those persons that have been redeemed entirely by the work of Christ and called out of slavery into freedom, out of darkness into light, out of error into truth, out of death into eternal life.
The visible church exists to worship God and proclaim Jesus Christ as Saviour to everyone in all areas of public and private life. This includes sitting under faithful biblical preaching, and participating in the sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper (also known as Holy Communion).
The ‘priesthood of all believers’, the whole church (not just the clergy), is also called to faithfully minister Christ’s word to one another and to devote ourselves to prayer and song and the good works we are called to do.
The historic creeds of the Church (namely the Apostle’s Creed, Nicene Creed, & Athanasian Creed) as accurate representations of the essence of the Christian faith, and in the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican Church, as a coherent and concise expression of Anglican doctrine.