Our Mission
Our Why
Core Values
The Bible is the ultimate source of authority for everything we believe, teach, and practice. It is God’s instruction manual for life. The Bible is inspired by God and therefore is absolute truth. Although the cultural setting of the Bible may be different from ours, its timeless principles stay the same and are as relevant today as when written. Our methods may change, but the message will always be the same. (2 Timothy 3:16)
Prayer must be the power source behind everything we do. It is essential that we seek God first before doing anything else. We believe that prayer changes things; changes lives; and demonstrates our full dependency upon God. (Matthew 7:7-11)
Worship is expressing our love, honor, and praise to God for Who He is, What He has said, what He had done and what He continues to do. God, not man, is the focus and center of our worship. Celebrative and reflective worship, touches both our minds and hearts, and leads us to genuine praise, adoration, and trust in God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Singing, praying, and communicating the Word of God, are all vital parts of our worship. (Matthew 22:37)
We believe that God loves us too much to leave us the way He found us. God’s desire, and therefore, our goal, is to develop every believer into a fully devoted follower of Jesus Christ. Full devotion to Jesus Christ is the goal the Bible says we should always be striving toward. We will do our best to show people practical ways to live a life committed to Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 4:15)
The most effective way to grow together and share life together is by being a part of a small group. Authenticity, accountability, and spiritual growth happen best in a small group. (Acts 2:42-47)
We promote strong marriages and healthy families. It was God who created marriage – the union between a man and a woman. A meaningful and growing relationship with God should start at home. Our desire is to supplement, reinforce, and promote those biblical values at church. Thus, we additionally understand that it is our responsibility to invest in the lives of our children and youth — the future leaders of the church. (Ephesians 5:22-6:4)
God has shaped us to serve. When we serve, we bless others; we are blessed; and we fulfill one of God’s purposes for our life. Being a part of God’s family means we are committed to serve together. God has something for everyone to do in His family (Ephesians 2:10). Whatever way we serve God, we do it with passion and excellence because we should always give our best for God. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)
We accept everyone wherever they are in life – just like Jesus does. Some people may seem easier to accept and love than others. But God loves everyone and wants to express His love to them through us. (Luke 5:27-31)
Because we believe what we are doing makes a difference now and for eternity, we are a “can do” church. Our philosophy is “whatever it takes” we will do what God has called us to do! We know God has given us a future to fulfill. Therefore, with visionary faith, we are willing to step out of our comfort zones and take risks for the purpose of advancing the cause of Christ. Since we are partners with God – we dream big! We also make sure to give Him all the glory! (Philippians 4:13)
What We Believe
Northcliffe believes and supports the entire The Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Here are some abbreviated statements of our beliefs.
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The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God fully divine. …He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man is the special creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.
The first day of the week is the Lord’s Day. It commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell. The righteous… will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
The cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is co-ordinate with the causes of missions and general benevolence; there should be a proper balance between academic freedom and academic responsibility. The freedom of a teacher in a Christian school, college, or seminary is limited by the pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, by the authoritative nature of the Scriptures, and by the distinct purpose for which the school exists.
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions. They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions.
Christ’s people should organize such associations and conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God. Such organizations have no authority over one another or over the churches. Cooperation is desirable between the various Christian denominations.
All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society, in the spirit of Christ, Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick. We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death…
Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its spiritual ends. …A free church in a free state is the Christian ideal.