Statement of Faith

The Living Well Trust is committed to the fundamental truths of historic, biblical Christianity, and we affirm the following:

1. There is one God, Creator and Lord of the universe who, in the eternal unity of the three persons of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, both governs all things according to God's will and is accomplishing God's purpose in the world and in the church.
2. The Holy Scripture in its entirety is inspired by God's Spirit through human authors and constitutes the revelation of God's truth to humanity. It inerrantly reveals the will of God concerning us in all things necessary to our salvation. Whatever the Bible, rightly interpreted, is found to teach, we are bound to believe and obey. It is our supreme authority in every matter of belief and conduct.
3. We affirm that there is only one Saviour, Jesus Christ who alone is truly God and truly human, the only mediator between God and humanity. Salvation from the guilt, penalty and all eternal consequences of sin has been achieved solely through the work of Jesus Christ- his incarnation, perfect obedience, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection and exaltation as Lord. There is salvation through no other person, creed, process or power. Each sinner is justified before God and reconciled to God only by divine grace appropriated by their faith in the finished work of Jesus alone.
4. All human beings are created in God's own likeness and therefore have inherent value and equality before God. Human sin and guilt since the fall have rendered us subject to God's wrath and condemnation and have resulted in our alienation from God's life, suppression of God's truth and hostility to God's law. God's love desires all to come to repentance and to be reconciled rather than condemned.
5. The work of the Holy Spirit is necessary for, and bears witness to, the individual's new birth and growth to maturity. The Holy Spirit empowers and indwells the church, enabling its constant renewal in truth, wisdom, faith, holiness, love, ministry, power and commission.
6. There is one, holy, universal and apostolic church, which is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong. The church's calling is to worship God forever and to serve God in the world.
7. As the Father sent the Son into the world, so the Lord Jesus Christ sends his church to participate in God's mission by words and works and in so doing to demonstrate our love for our neighbour and our obedience to Jesus. In this mission the church is called:
• to make Christ known;
• to proclaim God's truth and the gospel of God's grace;
• to make disciples among all nations;
• to exhibit God's character through compassionate care for the needy;
• to speak, as supported through the Scriptures against oppression and discrimination wherever it may be found;
• to demonstrate the present and future realities of God's Kingdom through creative and sacrificial living, the community of love, the quest for righteousness, justice, reconciliation and peace, and the care of God's creation.
8. As the Lord Jesus ascended to His Father, so he will return personally, visibly and in glory. He will raise the dead and bring salvation and judgement to final completion. God will then fully establish his Kingdom and finish the new creation- a new heaven and a new earth from which all evil and evildoers, all suffering and death, will be excluded and in which God will be glorified forever.