What we believe

Our part­ner organ­i­sa­tion, AFES (Aus­tralian Fel­low­ship of Evan­gel­i­cal Stu­dents) has the fol­low­ing Doc­tri­nal Basis.  It is a good sum­mary of our key points of belief.

• The divine inspi­ra­tion and infal­li­bil­ity of Holy Scrip­ture as orig­i­nally given and its supreme author­ity in all mat­ters of faith and conduct.
• The unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead.
• The uni­ver­sal sin­ful­ness and guilt of human­ity since the fall, ren­der­ing men and women sub­ject to God’s wrath and condemnation.
• The con­cep­tion of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and his birth by the Vir­gin Mary.
• Redemp­tion from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only though the sac­ri­fi­cial death, as our rep­re­sen­ta­tive and sub­sti­tute, of Jesus Christ, the incar­nate Son of God.
• The bod­ily res­ur­rec­tion of Jesus Christ from the dead.
• The neces­sity of the work of the Holy Spirit to make the death of Christ effec­tive in the indi­vid­ual sin­ner, grant­ing him or her repen­tance towards God, and faith in Jesus Christ.
• The indwelling and work of the Holy Spirit in the believer.
• The expec­ta­tion of the per­sonal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.