Cityview Values and Beliefs...

We value:

Honouring God
Loving people
Applying the Bible
Prayer
Risk & Change
Every member serving
Reflecting the diversity of the city
Loving the city through championing our neighbourhood
Thinking and acting "glocally"
Planting churches

We believe:

God
There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God reveals Himself to us as the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

Humanity
People were created by the special act of God, in His own image, and are the crowning work of His creation. In the beginning people were innocent of sin and endowed by their Creator with freedom of choice. By free choice people sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring people into His fellowship and enable human kind to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of the human personality is evident in that God created people in His own image, and in that Christ died for us all; therefore every person possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

The Bible
The Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of Gods revelation of Himself to people. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth for its matter.

"All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work." 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole person, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. 

The Church
A New Testament church is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, committed to His teachings, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. This church is an autonomous body, operating through democratic processes under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. In such a congregation members are equally responsible. The New Testament also speaks of the church as the body of Christ wich includes all of the redeemed of all the ages.

Baptism and Communion
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believers faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believers death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus.

Communion, also known as "The Lord's Supper," is a symbolic act of obedience in which members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, remember the death of the Christ and anticipate His second coming.