What We Believe

Newport Anglican is all about Jesus

We warmly welcome all people, whatever your age or background, and whether you know anything about Jesus or not. Jesus loves all people, and we want to share that love with you!

In brief, we believe:

  • The Bible is God’s perfect Word to us, sufficient for all knowledge of God and his will. It is the ultimate authority in all that we believe.
  • God is the Creator of all things.
  • We all sin, that is, we fail to live under God’s good and loving rule.
  • Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
  • He became truly human and lived a perfect life.
  • He died on the cross, taking the punishment for our sin so that we can be forgiven.
  • He rose again, defeating death and giving new life to all who trust in him.
  • The Holy Spirit works in us, revealing God to us and enabling us to grow in likeness of Jesus.
  • We look forward to Christ’s return, when sin and death will be destroyed and Christ will gather his people to live with him forever.

If you’d like more detail about our beliefs, see the links below. The Bible is the ultimate authority in all that we believe, but the Bible’s teaching has been helpfully summarised at different times in response to particular debates. Newport Anglican Church affirms each of the following summaries of biblical teaching:

In the earliest Centuries of the Christian church, the Creeds were mostly written during debate about the nature of God, Christ, and the Trinity:

During the reformation (16th Century), the Anglican formularies were written in the midst of debate especially about the nature of salvation and the relative authority of the Bible and the church:

The most recent statement of Christian belief to come out of the Anglican tradition, the Jerusalem Declaration, was written in the midst of dispute about the authority of scripture over Christian ethical teaching: