What we believe
We’re called North Church because we want to be a church for Leicester North. We are a community of people who love and worship God and want to share his good news in this part of the city.
We are Evangelical, meaning we believe and love the Gospel - the good news that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, came to rescue us from our sin. We believe the Bible is God’s word to us about Jesus Christ. We believe God speaks through his word. That’s why we preach and teach the Bible, and aim to keep the Bible central in everything we do.
We are Reformed Baptist, which means we believe the historic creeds of the church, and in particular hold to the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (www.the1689confession.com - or, for a more modernised version, click here). The below Basis of Faith gives a helpful summary of the core biblical truths that we believe and teach, and that every member of the church subscribes to.
For more detail about how North Church works (e.g. what it means to be a member, how we are led, etc), please contact us for a copy of our church Constitution (or church ‘handbook’), or with any questions you may have.
Basis of Faith
The following statement helpfully summarises the core Biblical truths that we believe and teach. There is an associated video for each point, where Pete (the pastor of North Church) unpacks each point in a little more detail.
We believe in:
1. the bible
The full and verbal inspiration of all the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures as originally given, and of these alone: their being in themselves the Word of God, without error, and wholly reliable in both fact and doctrine; their final authority and perpetual sufficiency in all matters of faith and practice.
2. God
The unity of the Godhead and the divine co-equality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; the sovereignty of God in creation, providence, and redemption.
3. the human race
The total depravity of human nature in consequence of the fall, and the necessity for regeneration.
4. The Lord Jesus Christ
The true and proper deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, his virgin birth; his real and perfect manhood; the authority of his teaching, and the infallibility of all his utterances; his work of atonement for sinners of mankind by his substitutionary sufferings and death; his bodily resurrection and his ascension into Heaven; and his present priestly intercession for his people at the right hand of the Father.
5. Salvation
The justification of the sinner solely by faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
6. The Holy Spirit
The work of the Holy Spirit as essential for a true and spiritual understanding of the Scriptures: for regeneration, conversion, and sanctification, and for ministry and worship.
7. The Church
The universal Church, the body of which Christ is the Head, embracing all the redeemed, called by God through the Gospel, born of the Spirit and justified by faith; the local church, comprising such believers as the expression of the universal Church, and fellowship between such churches, manifesting the unity of the body of Christ.
8. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
The ordinances of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as being instituted by our Lord Jesus Christ, but not in Baptism as conveying regenerating grace, nor in the Lord’s Supper as being a sacrifice for sin or involving any change in the substance of the bread and wine.
9. The Return of Christ
The personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ in glory.
10. The final judgment
The resurrection of the body; the judgment of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with the eternal blessedness of the righteous and the eternal punishment of the wicked.