About Us
The Free Presbyterian Church is a Christian denomination which is serving the Lord throughout the world. We have growing churches in Europe, N. America and in Australia, and missionaries serving the Lord in Asia and Africa.
Our church is Presbyterian in doctrine and government, though we depart from the usual Presbyterian policy by recognising that baptism is variously understood by good men equally committed to Scripture.
We are unashamedly Protestant in our faith, gladly identifying with the great Protestant reformation. In theology the church is reformed. It stands in the tradition of Calvin, Knox, the Puritans and many great revival preachers.
Our church is evangelistic. We have a burden for the salvation of sinners and a desire to obey Christ’s call to “preach the gospel to every creature”.
Moreover we believe in the power of prayer. Emphasis is placed upon the necessity of effectual prayer in the life of the individual and church.
The Free Presbyterian Congregation In Port Lincoln
The Free Presbyterian Church in Port Lincoln began in the city under the ministry of Rev. Fred Buick on Jan 1, 1978 in the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Feltus. Morning services were held each Sunday at Port Lincoln and the blessing of God was known at those meetings.
Under the ministry of Rev Buick and the subsequent lengthy ministry of Rev Michael Patrick, the work in the city continued to prosper. A permanent church building for the congregation was found and purchased.
On the Lord’s day the congregation now met twice for worship. A weekly bible study and prayer meeting was established. And a thriving Friday night youth work which today reaches up to 80 young people each week was started.
The current minister, the Rev. Ian Hall recognises that he enters into the labours of those who gone before him and heartily acknowledges their work. Above all, however, he along with the congregation looks back with much thanksgiving to God for what He has done and says with them “Hitherto hath the Lord helped us”.
Our Articles Of Faith
1. The Absolute Authority and Divine Verbal Inspiration of the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God.
2. There is but one living and true God, and in the Godhead, there are three Persons, equal in power and glory, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
3. The Eternal Sonship, Virgin Birth, and Deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
4. The personality of God the Holy Spirit, and the absolute necessity of His work in Regeneration and Sanctification, and His Infilling of the Indwelt Believer for power to live and witness for Christ.
5. The Substitutionary Death of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Resurrection as the only way of Salvation through Faith.
6. God has appointed besides the Word and Prayer the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
6a. Baptism - The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, under Christ the Great King and Head of the Church, realizing that bitter controversy raging around the mode and proper subjects of the ordinance of Christian baptism has divided the Body of Christ when that Body should have been united in Christian love and Holy Ghost power to stem the onslaughts and hell-inspired assaults of modernism, hereby affirms that each member of the Free Presbyterian Church shall have liberty to decide for himself which course to adopt on these controverted issues, each member giving due honor in love to the views held by differing brethren, but none espousing the error of baptismal regeneration.
6b. The Lord’s Supper — The Lord’s Supper has been appointed by our Lord for Remembrance of Him in His work as Saviour. Its purpose to the child of God is for strengthening, and putting a visible difference between the redeemed and the unregenerate. This Sacrament will be observed once each month in every Free Presbyterian Congregation, or more frequently as each local congregation shall decide.
7. The visible and personal return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8. These Articles, together with the Larger Catechism, , the Shorter Catechism, and The Westminster Confession of Faith, form the Subordinate Standards of the Free Presbyterian Church.
You May Contact Ian Hall by email at seekthelord1@gmail.com
