We are a Christian, Reformed, Gospel Centred church, which means that we’re on about Jesus and we believe the Bible tells us all we need to know Him and live for Him. Each week, you will hear the Bible read and explained and be encouraged to have it shape and transform you and your life. We believe the Bible is God’s word and that Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection change everything.
We believe that the Two Ways to Live page really encapsulates our beliefs as Christians. So click the button below and read on!
WE BELIEVE THAT:
The Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, the revelation of God for our world, and it’s our ultimate standard in all matters of faith and practice.
We’re also a community that exists because of Jesus in order to help each other grow to be like Jesus and to love others so that they catch a glimpse of Jesus in the way we live. Here are three ways this plays out at Village Church:
We believe that God really speaks today and the way He speaks is through the Bible. Therefore, we want to work hard to understand and apply God’s Word and we think this works best in community. No one person is the expert and no one person stands above the other. Together we’re shaped by God working through His Word, by His Holy Spirit, to recreate us in the image of His Son, Jesus.
The gospel of Jesus is all about grace. It tells us what we’re like: people who fall well short of our own expectations, not to mention God’s. It also tells us that God loves and saves us regardless of who we are. The gospel is God’s unmerited favour in saving us when we couldn’t save ourselves. So in everything we do at Village, we don’t want to pretend we’re anything more than that: people utterly reliant on God’s goodness in Jesus Christ.
We believe that God, by Christ’s Spirit, changes His people. He gives us new hearts and works in our lives so that bit by bit we grow to reflect the person He is making us to be: people who look like Jesus, who live lives of humble, self-sacrificial love.