This message, called the Gospel, is meant to be shared with the whole world for God’s glory and our joy. From the beginning, Christians have found it useful to summarise their core beliefs in short, clear statements like hymns, creeds, and confessions. These summaries help to teach truth, avoid confusion, protect against false teachings, and stay connected to the historic foundations of our faith.A Christian confession is simply a response to what God has revealed.
Therefore, the beliefs of a church and its partners should align with the truth God has made known in the Bible. At Village Church Wirral, we have two main statements that summarise what we believe: the Statement of Basic Beliefs and the FIEC statement of belief which we also subscribe to which can be found below. These statements, along with the Gospel, reflect our faith and guide what we teach, preach, pray, and how we care for and discipline one another.
We recognise these statements while not essential for salvation, further establish our theological identity. Anyone pursuing Partnership at Village Church Wirral must agree with this statement.
The gospel is the hope of the world. As we read the Scriptures, we see the overarching themes of God’s providence, power and provision to reconcile mankind and the created world to Himself through the person and work of Jesus Christ. In light of this, we aim to be explicitly gospel-centered in all that we preach, teach and practice. This Statement of Basic Beliefs represents the most simple and foundational beliefs of Christian Belief. It captures the basic contours of Christian theology.
There is one God, who exists eternally in three distinct but equal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is unchangeable in his holiness, justice, wisdom and love. He is the almighty Creator; Saviour and Judge who sustains and governs all things according to his sovereign will for his own glory.
God has revealed himself in the Bible, which consists of the Old and New Testaments alone. Every word was inspired by God through human authors, so that the Bible as originally given is in its entirety the Word of God, without error and fully reliable in fact and doctrine. The Bible alone speaks with final authority and is always sufficient for all matters of belief and practice.
Salvation is entirely a work of God’s grace and cannot be earned or deserved. It has been accomplished by the Lord Jesus Christ and is offered to all in the gospel. God in his love forgives sinners whom he calls, granting them repentance and faith. All who believe in Christ are justified by faith alone, adopted into the family of God and receive eternal life.
“Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures…”
1 Corinthians 15:1-4
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23). What does it mean to “fall short of the glory of God?” It means that none of us has trusted and treasured God the way we should. We have not been satisfied with his greatness and walked in his ways. We have sought our satisfaction in other things, and treated them as more valuable than God, which is the essence of idolatry (Romans 1:21-23). Since sin came into the world we have all been deeply resistant to having God as our all-satisfying treasure (Ephesians 2:3). This is an appalling offense to the greatness of God (Jeremiah 2:12-13).
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