We believe ...

• In the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to everlasting punishment. Jn 5:28-29; Mat 25:46; Rev 20:11-15

• That the souls of believers on the Lord Jesus are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord where, in conscious bliss, they await resurrection when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. Phil 1:23; 2 Cor 5:8; 1 Cor 15:50-57; 1 Thes 4:14-18

• That 'Christ's Church', known as the body of Christ, is a spiritual organism composed of believers on Christ who are all baptised into that body; by the Lord Jesus in the Holy Spirit at the time of the new birth. Mat 16:18; Eph 1:22; 1 Cor 12:12-13

• That local churches, patterned after the New Testament example, are called 'churches of God' composed of baptised believers observing all the Lord's teaching, and they - as visibly manifesting his body - have responsibility to provide for the fellowship and edification of believers and to propagate the gospel in all the world. 1 Cor 1:1-2; Gal 1:2; Rom 15:14; 1 Thes 1:1,8

• That a major concern of the Holy Spirit as revealed in the Bible is the promotion of unity among Christian disciples. Phil 1:27-2:2; Eph 4:1-6; 2 Cor 13:14

• That it was to this end God established the original mould of Christianity. It constituted a body of teaching (the Faith) which when consistently held results in a practical, observable unity. Rom 6:17; Jude 1:3