KBC belongs to an association of member churches of the Baptist denomination in South Australia and the Northern Territory (Baptist Churches SA & NT).

Our beliefs reflect those of our wider Baptist community. You can find out more about Baptist Churches SA & NT here.

We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. And we confess our faith in him as our Lord. We affirm the need for personal, experiential faith in Jesus Christ and formative discipleship into his likeness. We believe that Jesus of Nazareth reveals God to us through his birth, life, ministry, death, bodily resurrection, ascension and the promise of his return. Because of this revelation we confess faith in one God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In affirming this we acknowledge ourselves to be a part of the whole, world-wide, Christian Church. Our final authority in faith and practice is Jesus Christ, as revealed in Scripture and present among his people through the Holy Spirit.

We believe in one eternal God who is the Creator of all things. He exists in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. He is totally loving and completely holy.

We recognise the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, interpreted under the leadership of the Holy Spirit and in the community of God's people, as the primary authority for knowing God's revelation in Christ.

We practice baptism for believers only, in the triune name of God, into the Body of Christ. Where possible this is by immersion in water as a symbol of our becoming partakers in the death and resurrection of Jesus.

We understand the church to be the People of God, the Body of Christ and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. We believe that God calls a local fellowship of believers into a shared life as a means of grounding his presence among his people within particular communities in the service of his mission to the world. There called, local communities of faith nourish themselves by worshipping, meeting around God's Word (the Scriptures) and sharing together in the Lord's Supper.

We believe that every believer in Jesus Christ is called to witness, with love and compassion, to the Lordship of Jesus. We believe that the church is to share in the whole mission of God in the world.

We affirm the freedom and responsibility of each local congregation to discover the purpose of Christ for its own life and work in the context of Christ's call to his whole church. The discernment of this purpose will involve the whole congregation in seeking the mind of Christ under the appropriate exercise of the gift of leadership.

We affirm the 'priesthood of all believers' in which the only mediator between God and humanity is Jesus Christ. We affirm the gift of the Holy Spirit to all God's people, male and female, young and old, significant and seemingly insignificant, and so we recognise that all members of the church have a role to play using their God-given gifts, skills and talents for the good of the church and the community in the service of God's mission.

We affirm the need to preserve freedom of conscience and so stand for the separation of church and state, and for religious liberty of all - including those who do not affirm the foundational values of the Baptist Association. We recognise the responsibility of the church to be a prophetic community of God's grace in his world.

We believe that in order to receive forgiveness and a fresh start with God, we must repent of our sins, believe in Jesus, and commit to His will for our lives.

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