Our vision and values

We state our objective to OSCR (the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator) as being to provide Christian fellowship and worship.

What does that mean in practice?    Well other pages on our website will help you understand a bit more about the sorts of things we do as a Church, and alongside other Christians of our own and other traditions.   

What do we believe?   We're firmly Trinitarian in our belief - holding God to reveal himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit.   We give primacy to the Bible as the revealed Word of God - and recognise Baptism and Communion as the two sacraments instituted by Christ.   

Congregationalists don't have binding creedal statements.     Encyclopedia Britannica says that most Congregationalists in recent generations have regarded the confession, "Jesus is Lord" to be a sufficient basis for membership. 

Each member has an equal voice - but our structures are theocratic rather than democratic.    We seek to be led, as a group, by God's Spirit working amongst us - rather than by simple majority votes.    Although we have Elders (meeting as a Session) and Managers (meeting as a Board), the highest decision-making body in our structure is the Congregational Meeting, comprising all members.