Our Story & Values

What do we believe?

• One God (three persons): Father, Son and Holy Spirit who created all things by His mighty power, and is in control of all things.
• Men and women: created perfect in the image of God but who, through disobedience, have become the slaves of sin and are therefore liable to God's just punishment.
• Jesus Christ: the eternal Son of God who became man, lived a blameless life and died in our place, taking all our guilt away; who rose physically from the dead and is alive and reigning in heaven today as Lord of all; who will one day return to this world and judge all men, condemning those who are unrepentant and unbelieving and taking those who truly believe in Him to be with Him in heaven.
• The Holy Spirit: who works in the hearts of people, enabling them to believe in Jesus Christ and to repent of their wrongdoings (sins) and who is a living reality in the lives of those who are true believers.
• The forgiveness of sin: this comes about as a free and undeserved gift through the death of the Lord Jesus, in the place of sinners, and is received only through faith in Him.
• The Bible: which is God's Word, true and meaningful to all generations and in all circumstances, and tells us what we need to know, about what we should believe and how we should live.
• The Church: this is the world-wide community of people who truly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Believers’ baptism: we believe that all those who come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ should follow His example and instruction to be baptised. In Bellevue we provide for full-immersion baptism. If you are a believer and have not yet responded to the Lord’s call to be baptised or would simply like to know more about it, then please speak to one of the Elders.
• While we all share those common beliefs, there are plenty of things that make us different! Children, teenagers, students, men and women, old and young, singles, couples, families from a diverse number of countries with different church traditions (or none at all!). We don’t always agree on every matter of belief but we believe that we are one family in the body of Christ who come together to encourage, support, teach, have fun with and most importantly love one other!