Gwydyr Rd, Crieff, UK, PH7 4BS

What we believe –

 

The Trinity
There is one God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons usually called the Trinity. God the Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation. God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ, through Whom all things were created; the character of God is revealed; the salvation of humanity is accomplished; and the world is judged. God the Holy Spirit draws men and women to Himself and gives spiritual gifts to the Church.

Christ our Hope
In Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God’s will, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement have eternal life.

Christ’s Return
The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the Church, the grand climax of the Gospel. His coming will be literal, personal, visible, and world-wide. When He returns the righteous dead will be resurrected and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven. The unrighteous – those who have rejected divine grace – will die.

The Church
The Church is the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. In it men and women join together for worship, fellowship, instruction in the Word, the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, service to our neighbours, and the world-wide proclamation of the Gospel.

The Holy Scriptures
The Old and New Testaments are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration through holy men of God who spoke and wrote by the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures are the infallible revelation of God’s will.

Baptism
Baptism by immersion is a symbol of our union with Christ, the forgiveness of our sins, and our reception of the Holy Spirit.

The Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments, the great principles of God’s law, are exemplified in the life of Christ. They express God’s love, will, and purposes concerning human conduct and relationships. Salvation is all of grace and not of works, but its fruitage is obedience to the Commandments, not in hopeless effort to earn salvation, but in grateful harmony with the life and will of Him whose perfect obedience has brought us confidence and acceptance as His sons and daughters.

The Sabbath
The seventh day of the week, Saturday, is observed as the day of rest, worship, and ministry in harmony with the teaching and practice of Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is a day of delightful communion with God and one another. We joyfully observe this holy time from Friday evening to Saturday evening, from sunset to sunset, as a celebration of God’s creative and redemptive acts.

The New Earth
On the new earth, in which righteousness dwells, God will provide a glorious home for the redeemed with a perfect environment for everlasting life, love, joy and learning. God Himself will dwell with His people, and suffering and death will exist no more.

Full Statement of Fundamental beliefs
A complete statement of the 28 fundamental beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists is available as a pdf file. Click to view or right click and “save target as” to download.

More on Adventist Beliefs
A series of answers to questions on Adventist beliefs are available on the the headquarters website of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the UK & Ireland.  A free Bible Correspondence course that will help explain our beliefs more fully is available from the Adventist Discovery Centre.

 

A short history of Crieff SDA Church

The Adventist Church in Crieff goes back a long way, although the formal church is quite young. Back in the 1920s and 30s a Mr and Mrs Murphy ran a small Hydro in Crieff. Mrs Murphy was the Matron at the first Adventist hospital in Dublin.

In 1945 Drs Ted and Gertrude Brown moved from Edinburgh to a house in Crieff called Akaroa, where they set up a nursing home and informal meetings were held there on Saturdays. Patients and staff, Adventist or not, were welcome to join in the worship. Eventually the small group was officially formed into a company in February 1970, graduating to a church in 1972. The membership consisted of the nursing home staff, spouses, and just one couple who were not employees. It was around this time that the British Union Conference (the governing body of the Adventist Church in Britain) purchased the nursing home from Dr Brown.

In November 1977 the church building was erected by Maranatha on what was the tennis court of Akaroa. An extension to the church was built in May 1992, also by Maranatha. Local members and tradesmen completed the internal work on both buildings.

Membership has fluctuated during the years as Adventist staff transferred to and from the institution, and with the closing of Roundelwood in 2007. The official membership stands around 50+ but it is not unusual to have 70 to 80 people at a service – the congregation swelled by visitors and local community friends.

Our aim and vision is to be a community that reflects faith in God demonstrated by faith in our fellow men and women, thus honouring the command of the Lord Jesus found in passages such as John 13:34, 35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”