St. Peter's Anglican Church

WE'D LIKE YOU TO COME TO OUR CHURCH!

Would you like to know why?

It isnt just to aquaint you with a new circle of friends. You could make more aquaintances in other churches larger than ours. Perhaps you have more friends now than time to visit them. It isn't just to make you happy. Perhaps you are sure that you would feel happier for a few hours extra sleep Sunday morning, plus a hearty unhurried breakfast.

Neither is it just to add to the size of our church. We want to grow, but the reason we want to grow isn't first to help ourselves or to help you. Our purpose is greater than that.

We'd like you to come to our church to worship God. Of course in these days of vague words, that sentence could mean almost anything. But after all, the key to worship of God isn't our idea of the kind of worship God should have, but rather correct information as to the kind of worship God wants and will accept. And where may we get such information? In Christianity there is the answer to that question. We may learn what to believe about God and how to worship and obey Him from His word, the Bible.

In our church we are concerned to worship God as He has commanded. The Bible makes it plain that we cannot come before God in our own right, because we are sinful men, and have disobeyed His commandments. But the Bible makes plain that God has wrought in history a great program of salvation by which sinners are forgiven and again brought into communion with Him. That program is centered on the work of Jesus the Son of God, who was born of the virgin Mary in order that He might become our representative before God in living for us and bearing in His death the punishment for our sin. Jesus declared "No man cometh unto the Father but by me."

In our worship of God, therefore, we come through Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And we come giving carful attention to the Word of God. We believe we must first hear what God says  to us before we pray to Him. Since the Gospel is the good news of certain facts of history we want to learn about those facts, and their bearing on us. And since the Bible is God's complete record of these facts and their meaning, we have preached from our pulpit only the Bible.

We want you to come along with us to learn about God from His Word so that we may worship and serve Him together.





AOC MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is precisely that given by our Lord: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (MATTHEW 28:19-20)