St Paul's Finchley is an Evangelical Anglican church in the Diocese of London.
We meet weekly for worship on Sunday mornings at 10am for a joyful and welcoming service including contemporary worship songs as well as songs from different eras. Our services also include a powerful and inspiring sermon (which for the year ahead will have one guest speaker per month). Our congregation read from the bible and participate in prayers. The service is followed by teas, coffee and cakes in the Church Centre. During the services we have kids church and we will be starting a youth group on a Thursdays between 6-8pm from the 1st May.
As a community we are praying for renewal through the Holy Spirit, so that we can know and experience more and more of the amazing and unconditional love of God in Jesus, and be channels of His love to others. Jesus came to "seek and save" the lost and to give us abundant life and we want to share the joy and fullness of this life we have recieved and be partners with Him in the transformation of Finchley and the wider world.
Our Ministry and Mission are shaped by an Orthodox understanding of Christianity as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and to which the historic Anglican formularies bear witness.
Our theological position falls within the evangelical tradition of the Church of England. In essence this means we are:
Committed to:
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the final authority of the Bible in all matters of belief;
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the uniqueness and finality of Christ, the Son of God;
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the free gift of eternal life for humankind only through his death on the Cross and Resurrection;
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the need for personal acceptance of Christ for salvation;
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the teaching of Scripture as the normative ethical framework and guideline in human relationships, upholding faithfulness in marriage between a man and a woman in lifelong union.
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the ordained ministry of women; and
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the mission-shaped calling of the church.