Chiltern Church

Seeking God - Serving the Community - Sharing Together

Mission & Vision

Our aim is to be a church that focuses on people rather than programs, helping everyone to become mature Christian believers. We endeavour to do this by implementing our three-fold Mission Statement and Vision.

 

Our Mission Statement:

Seeking God, Serving the Community, Sharing Together...

 

 

At Chiltern we recognise that everyone is unique, we all have different gifts and talents, and we are all at different stages in our journey of Faith. Our aim is to help everyone understand how special they are and to provide the opportunity for each individual to realise the spiritual potential they have been given by God...

 

Our Vision statement is:

 We seek to be a growing church in which lives are transformed through sharing the love and truth of Jesus

Basis of Faith

 

As a church we subscribe to the Evangelical Alliance Basis of Faith which says:

 

We believe in...

  1. The one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
  2. The love, grace and sovereignty of God in creating, sustaining, ruling, redeeming and judging the world.
  3. The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Old and New Testament Scriptures, which are the written Word of God—fully trustworthy for faith and conduct.
  4. The dignity of all people, made male and female in God's image to love, be holy and care for creation, yet corrupted by sin, which incurs divine wrath and judgement.
  5. The incarnation of God’s eternal Son, the Lord Jesus Christ—born of the virgin Mary, truly divine and truly human, yet without sin.
  6. The atoning sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil, so reconciling us with God.
  7. The bodily resurrection of Christ, the firstfruit of our resurrection; his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
  8. The justification of sinners solely by the grace of God through faith in Christ.
  9. The ministry of God the Holy Spirit, who leads us to repentance, unites us with Christ through new birth, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
  10. The Church, the body of Christ both local and universal, the priesthood of all believers—given life by the Spirit and endowed with the Spirit's gifts to worship God and proclaim the gospel, promoting justice and love.
  11. The personal and visible return of Jesus Christ to fulfil the purposes of God, who will raise all people to judgement, bring eternal life to the redeemed and eternal condemnation to the lost, and establish a new heaven and new earth.