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We are ChEMistry

At ChEMistry, we value connection and community. Our teachings are built around connecting people to each other and to God.

We are a welcoming and open church that encourages people to come and share in the love of Jesus. Come join our community and grow in your faith alongside others who have the same beliefs and values.

Our Beliefs

We invite you to explore our beliefs and join us in our pursuit of living out our faith in boldness and passion.

God

There is one unique and eternal God. He exists in an everlasting loving relationship of Father, Son and Spirit – one God in three persons. God is sovereign in all things: including creation, revelation, redemption, judgement, and the establishing of his kingdom. As sovereign loving creator and redeemer, he alone is worthy of all glory, honour, and praise.

Humanity

Men and women together are created in the image of God. Therefore, they enjoy a unique dignity in creation and a unique relationship with God. Men and women together have dominion over the created order. Marriage is a gift of God and is modelled on the union of Christ and his church. It is the union of one man and one woman voluntarily entered into for life. Tragically, human nature is universally sinful since the Fall and all are guilty before God. This leaves us under the wrath and condemnation of God. We are unable, without the prior regenerative work of God’s Spirit, to turn ourselves to God.

The Bible

There is no other way to know God except that he reveals himself to us. The Bible is God’s revelation to us. The words of the Bible are divinely inspired and infallible, as originally given, and have supreme authority in all matters of faith, conduct and experience. The Bible is sufficient for knowing God. It is not only central to the well-being of the church, but is able to thoroughly equip the Christian community for life and godliness.

Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He is both fully God and truly human. Jesus entered fully into human experience. He endured temptation and he suffered and died. He was perfectly obedient to God his father. Jesus took on himself the consequences of human sin. He died and was buried. On the third day he rose from the dead bodily and is now exalted as king and ruler over all. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.

Salvation

There is only one name under heaven by which we can be brought into relationship with God: the name ‘Jesus Christ’. It is only through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, that the guilt, penalty and power of sin can be removed. In that death, God demonstrates his love to us most perfectly and establishes his victory over Satan and all his foes. The work of the Holy Spirit is necessary to make the death of Jesus effective in an individual’s life. The Spirit enables the sinner to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ, so that salvation is entirely of God’s grace and not of human merit or works. We enjoy now the blessing of union with Christ and secure relationship with God, while we await the final consummation of our hope with the return of Christ, the resurrection of our bodies and life with him eternally. God has destined that there be only one people of God (Jew and Gentile) united by faith in Jesus for all time.

Holy Spirit

The Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son, and indwells all true believers. His role is to bring glory to Jesus Christ thus making Jesus Christ central in all things. The Spirit works to illuminate believers’ minds to grasp the truth of Scripture, producing in them his fruit, granting them his gifts and empowering them for service. He grants his gifts for the purpose of service, not self-indulgence. Their use is determined – not by personal desire for fulfillment, or satisfaction – but by the principle of building the church. Not every gift of the Spirit is given to the church at every moment of its life, only those necessary for building the church, Christ’s body.

The Church

The visible church is the gathering of believers around Christ in his word. The people of God who gather are intended by God to bear witness to him and actively seek the extension of his rule. Within the church community, both men and women are to seek proper expression of their gifts as they work to build the church in love. In church, as in marriage, the roles of men and women are not interchangeable. The differences between men and women are to be expressed within relationships of mutual dependence and service. Only biblically qualified men are to take on the role of Elder or to preach in the regular public assembly.

Cheil English Ministry affirms and ascribes to the Confessional Statement of The Gospel Coalition Australia.

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