As a biblical church we exist to glorify God in dignified corporate worship according to the teaching of the New Testament, while utilizing the liturgical structure and principle of the Anglican Prayer Book.

Our focus is not upon entertainment, but rather that our singing, praying and the preaching of the Word of God be honouring to God, and helpful in our growing knowledge of God and our obedience to Him.

Worship is the expression of our praise and prayer to God and the hearing of His Word to us in the expository preaching of the Christian Bible/Scriptures.

Such worship is also the shaping of our lives by this experience each and every day, and includes our  willingness to give sacrificially and systematically to support the gospel of Jesus Christ through His Church.

Within the organization of our structures there is Bible based teaching in our Sunday School and  Kids’ Club.

We are a missionary-minded church, having an interest to receive information about mission throughout the world, and to increase the spread of the gospel into all the world.

We are a Reformed Church, being gladly identified with the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century, as doctrinally expressed in the Book of Common Prayer (1662) and the 39 Articles of our Faith.

Does it matter which church I choose to attend?

The simple answer is ‘yes’!
Sadly, there are many churches who, while professing to be Christian, have seriously departed from,  “the faith once for all committed to the church” (Jude 3).

If you are a Christian who truly desires to follow the teaching of the Bible, you need to be a member of a church which faithfully proclaims the truth about Jesus Christ, and where you can serve Christ’s people and His cause with a wholehearted, humble, servant like attitude.

What we believe as a Church

That the Bible is inspired by God, and, as God’s revelation to us, retains sole infallible and authority with respect to all things that pertain to our salvation.

The absolute sovereignty of the triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The deity of Jesus Christ; His virgin birth, His sinless life, His death on the cross for sinners, His bodily resurrection from the dead and His future return in power
and glory and judgement.
Salvation from sin is by God’s grace alone (without good works or merit on our part), accomplished through the completed work of Jesus Christ on the cross.

The recognition of authorized leadership for the good order, instruction and pastoral care of the church.

God commands all people to repent of their sin and trust in Christ alone for their salvation, and to reflect that salvation in a thorough obedience to the teaching of Christ in the New Testament – the fulfillment of the Old Testament Scriptures. (Salvation is not through trusting in a ‘good’ life or belonging to a church, though both good works and church attendance are aspects of the obedience we should gratefully render to God ).

The church is comprised of  ‘forgiven sinners’, confessing Jesus Christ alone as their Saviour and Lord, who are seeking to live a life consistent with such a profession.

The church encourages its members to be a light in the world to Christ’s truth,
and to be involved citizens in our country for the good welfare of our society.

Worshipping and Witnessing to the
Supremacy of Christ

"In all things essential, unity;
In non-essentials, liberty; In all things, love." Augustine  

St John’s Anglican Church - Doonside

Pastor - Rev. Jerryl Lowe
Corner Cameron Street and Hillend Road
Doonside NSW 2767

We unashamedly follow the Anglican pattern of ‘liturgical’ worship expressing such worship of God in a ‘form’ or ‘order’ that seeks to be obedient to the plain teaching of Scripture.

We use a slightly modified form of Morning Prayer from An Australian Prayer Book (AAPB) together with An Other Order of Service and the First Form of the Service of Holy Communion from the same Book.

We ‘meet’ or ‘assemble’ to firstly ‘honour’ God in our corporate worship of Him. He is to be at the centre of our thoughts in such worship; we meet primarily to greet God, not one another.

Three important consequences follow subsequently as a result of our public worship. We grow in our understanding of God / godly living; we greet and serve one another as Christ’s body, and we go into all the world to proclaim the gospel.

We believe that such a ‘pattern’ is not only honouring to God, but that it also serves to protect the Church from the encroachment of heresy and error.

The immense benefit of biblical liturgical worship is its capacity to express and maintain a ‘balance’ of biblical teaching that maintains correct doctrine (or belief), not only containing those elements of penitence, praise, prayer and proclamation of God’s Word, but doing so with regular expression of ‘balanced’ prayers and exhortations that prevent us from forming incorrect biblical thinking.

Our teaching of God’s Word follows the example of that doctrine or belief that is expressed in the theology of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), and the further teaching of our Reformers as expressed in the Book of Homilies.
Consequently, our understanding of God’s grace (the mercy of God whereby He forgives us sins through Christ) is never detached from a life that seeks to obey God’s holy will, expressed in its completion in the gospel of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

The Collects (prayers) of BCP/AAPB not only excel in a beauty of expression which is memorable and easily retained with repetition, but they also excel in a beautiful symmetry of balanced biblical truth that assists the Church being ‘catholic’ ie., the ‘true’ Church in contrast to those that hold heretical opinions.  

We believe that current experimentation in ‘contemporary’ styles of services (mostly ‘off the cuff’, unprepared) are usually devoid of balanced biblical content and are in serious danger of conveying theological error, both in our understanding of God and salvation.

It is because we believe that our Anglican Liturgy provides us with such a ‘feast’ of biblical truth in its public worship of God, that we invite you to shun modern trends, and to “contend for (preserving) the faith once for all committed to the saints - God’s people”. (Jude 3) I

If you share these ideals, come and join us in public worship –
you would be made most welcome.

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