Peace is a collection of ministries based in Rockhampton, Australia, which adhere to the great historic doctrines of the church, and recognize the historic authenticity and doctrinal accuracy of the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed as important documents outlining the valid faith of true Christians.
The following is a statement of doctrinal belief for Peace as a group of ministries:
1. We believe in the Divine Inspiration, complete truth and supreme authority of the Scriptures of sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments; and that they only constitute the divine rule of Christian faith and practice.
2. We believe in the existence of One God in three persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the Deity and Incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God, the Second Person in the Holy Trinity.
4. We believe in the fallen, sinful and lost estate of all mankind.
5. We believe in the salvation of men from penal consequences and the power of sin through the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, His atoning death, His resurrection from the dead, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His unchanging Priesthood.
6. We believe in the necessity of repentance towards God and of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to gain salvation. This salvation is to an eternal and secure position in Christ Jesus and is a gift to the believer by the grace of God alone.
7. We believe in the immediate work of the Holy Spirit in the regeneration of men, in their sanctification, and in their preservation to the heavenly Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.
8. We believe the Scriptures warn believers against falling away, and we must guard the heart and heed the warnings of Holy Scripture to not receive the grace of God in vain.
9. We believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit is an impartation which may be subsequent to regeneration and is usually accompanied by the gifts of the Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and prophecy, and that this gift is presently available to all who believe but is not essential to salvation or regeneration. We further believe that the gift of the Spirit is given, not as a mark of maturity or spirituality, but to empower believers to be witnesses for Christ and ministers to their fellow man, and we further believe that the great ongoing work of sanctification must still be accomplished in the believer’s life by the Holy Spirit, producing fruit and showing forth the nature and image of Christ.
10 We believe in the resurrection of the dead, and the final judgement of all men by the Lord Jesus Christ.
11. We believe in a literal heaven and hell, and that the eternal state of the righteous in Christ shall be in glory with the Son of God forever and that the eternal state of the wicked shall be a state of eternal consciousness in the lake of fire.
12. We believe that marriage was ordained by God at creation as the sacred union of one man and one woman. All sexual relations must therefore be reserved for that union. Marriage is a representation of Christ’s relationship to His church. We also believe that children are a blessing from the Lord, and that all human life is sacred and worthy of protection from the moment of conception. Genesis 1:26-28; 2:23-24; Psalm 127 & 128; 139:13-16; Matthew 19:1-10; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; Ephesians 5:22-33; Hebrew 13:4
13. We believe that the Divine ordinances to be observed by the Church shall be Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which are of perpetual obligation: Baptism being the immersion of believers upon the profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and a symbol of the fellowship of the regenerate in His death, burial and resurrection; the Lord’s Supper being a memorial of, and a participation in, the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, until He comes.
