What We Believe

As a Christian organisation, ACFA requires everyone who signs up for membership to agree to a Statement of Faith. This is detailed below.

Living by Faith

Please note that as part of the membership registration process two references are contacted for confirmation of a person’s belief and Church membership/attendance.

ACFA Statement of Faith

All members believe in:

  1. There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. 

  2. God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement and is the ultimate owner of all things. 

  3. The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and behaviour. 

  4. Since Adam and Eve disobeyed God, the whole of humankind has been sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's judgement and condemnation. 

  5. The Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son, is fully God; he was born of a virgin; his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the cross, was buried, was raised bodily from death, and is now reigning over heaven and earth. 

  6. We are all sinful human beings and can only be rescued from the guilt, penalty, and power of sin through the sacrificial death once and for all time of our representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between us and God. 

  7. Those who trust in Christ are pardoned of all their sins and accepted in God's sight only because of the righteousness of Christ credited to them; this justification is God's act of undeserved mercy, received solely by trust in him and not by our own efforts. 

  8. The Holy Spirit alone enables us to turn to God from our sin and to trust in Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit lives in us when we have trusted in Christ’s saving work. He makes us increasingly Christ-like in character and behaviour and gives us power for our witness in the world. 

  9. The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong. 

  10. The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone.  Each of us will stand either pardoned and belonging to Christ, or under God’s condemnation. 

ACFA is a non-denominational organisation and has membership that reflects a broad spectrum of Christian denominations and styles of worship.

In applying for ACFA membership all members agree to the above Statement of Faith in its entirety.

Please find our downloadable Statement of Faith here: