Our Statement of Faith

Welcome To Perth Community Church

Perth Community Church is a creedal and confessional church.

We are catholic in the sense that we share much in common with the universal church and its roots in historic, apostolic Christianity. We hold to those truths that are embraced and confessed by all Christians of all denominations and all traditions. As such we are committed to the great Creeds of historic Christianity such as The Apostle’s Creed and The Nicene Creed.

We are evangelical because we embrace the two historic and cardinal doctrines of
the Reformation –

1. Sola Scriptura – “by Scripture alone” (the authority of Scripture); and
2. Sola fide – “by faith alone” (justification by faith alone).

We are reformed. By that we mean we embrace those doctrines and confessions that are specific to the Reformed Faith – particularly as they are set out in our subordinate standards of The Westminster Confession of Faith as well as The Westminster Shorter and Larger Catechism. We recognize that just as there are some central and foundational truths of the gospel affirmed by Christians everywhere, so too there are particular understandings of the gospel that define the Presbyterian and Reformed tradition. All Christians must affirm the central mysteries1 of the faith, and all those who are called to ordered ministries in a Presbyterian church must also affirm the essential teachings of the Reformed tradition.