About
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We started to meet together as a new church in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, in 2007. In 2021 several of us moved to the Christchurch area of Dorset on the south coast of England. Our purpose was, and still is, to worship God together and proclaim the Biblical gospel of peace with God through sovereign grace and particular redemption in Jesus Christ.
We use the King James Version of the Bible which we believe to be the most faithful to the original (received) text in the English language today and the one, above all, that has been preserved and honoured by God. We also use Gadsby’s Selection Hymn book because of its faithfulness to Biblical doctrine at the heart of every hymn.
We do not have a written Statement of Faith other than the Scriptures themselves, but for any who want to relate our position to one of the recognized creeds we are probably closest to the Baptist Confessions of 1644/46. We differ from the widely used 1689 Baptist Confession because of the elements to do with the Mosaic law added to the earlier Baptist Confessions.
We align very closely with the preachers listed on www.freegraceradio.com. They preach only the gospel of Jesus Christ, that God in sovereign grace before the beginning of time chose a multitude of people from all humanity, his elect, and united them with Christ who is God made known. What Christ did when he came to earth he did for all his elect. He was made their sin and
paid its debt to divine justice, and thus he made his elect the righteousness of God and fitted for his eternal Kingdom (2Cor5:21).
We reject modern “charismatic” teaching and practices as irrelevant to the truth of God. We also will not associate in worship or evangelism with any who teach anything other than the Biblical gospel of sovereign grace and particular redemption.
Our objective is to declare, to preach, the whole counsel of God as revealed in the Bible because “it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” 1Corinthians1:21.
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