What we Believe
What we believe is central to who we are as a Church. Ross River Anglican Church is reformed, evangelical and Anglican. We place Jesus, the Gospel and the Bible at the centre of everything we do. We have a deep commitment to love and care for others, to be a community which equips and spurs each other on to love and good works and to obedience to God. The following is a brief summary of what we believe.
We believe in:
- The unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in the Godhead.
- The divine inspiration and infallibility of Holy Scripture, as originally given, and its supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
- The universal sinfulness and guilt of human nature since the fall, rendering people subject to God’s wrath and condemnation.
- The conception of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit and his birth of the virgin Mary.
- Redemption from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through 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 repentance toward 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.
- The 39 Articles, and the Faith expressed in the Book of Common Prayer and the creeds (Nicene, Apostles and Athanasian.)
The Jerusalem Declaration
At our Annual General Meeting in 2019, RRAC voted to endorse GAFCON’s Jerusalem Declaration.