What We Believe

Anyone is welcome to come along to church services and public events whatever they believe. We hope you will encounter the living God in our midst as you dip your toes or dive right into the ocean of faith. 

For those who desire to take the plunge and go ‘all in’ and get baptised and/or become ‘church members’ at KBC, we have a shared understanding of what our core beliefs and values are. The Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB), also known as ‘Baptists Together’, has a ‘Declaration of Principle’ to which member churches, such as ourselves, subscribe, and which forms the basis of our association with other churches in the Baptist movement. KBC is also a member of the Evangelical Alliance and so affirm the EA ‘Basis of Faith’ too. Both of these statements are included below. We recognise people are on a journey and may struggle with or not yet fully understand everything on these statements of faith, so if that’s true of you we’d be very happy to sit down and explore this with you further, and/or any other questions you may have about our theology or practice.

The Declaration of Principle

The Basis of the Baptist Union of Great Britain is:

1. That our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, is the sole and absolute authority in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and that each Church has liberty, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to interpret and administer His laws.

2. That Christian Baptism is the immersion in water into the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, of those who have professed repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ who 'died for our sins according to the Scriptures; was buried, and rose again the third day'.

3. That it is the duty of every disciple to bear personal witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to take part in the evangelisation of the world.

For more information about the Baptist movement see the Baptists Together ‘Who are Baptists?’ webpage here