What we believe

We believe that Christian life is lived in relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and in common with other Christians in the church seeking to deepen that relationship and to follow the way that Jesus taught.

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We believe that it is important, through our words and actions, to share Jesus’s message and show God’s love to people beyond the walls of the church.

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For Christians, God is understood and known as Father, Son and Holy Spirit:

• Father – God is love, caring for creation and for every human being as God’s beloved child.

• Son – God is as he has revealed himself to be in the historical person of Jesus Christ. Jesus’s life, death and resurrection holds the key to knowing and loving God, and to making sense of life, before and after death.

• Holy Spirit – God is alive, loving and active today, inspiring faith, justice and truth, sustaining the life of the world, giving spiritual gifts to the church and bearing his spiritual fruit in the world – changed lives and a transformed society.

 

As Methodists, we seek to live by the principles set out in the Methodist way of life.