Honour and enjoy God every day 

Church Purpose:

Eltham Presbyterian Church centres on God through faith in Jesus Christ. People are our priority. The Bible is our basis. 
 

Theological Foundations:

We are an evangelical congregation in the Reformed tradition. That means that our modern historical roots go back to the times of M Luther, J Calvin and others who rediscovered aspects of the Christian faith that led to the Protestant Reformation. Our ancient roots are in the teachings of Jesus and the entirety of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments which we believe are the inspired words of God, without error and infallible in what they teach.

As part of the Presbyterian Church of Australia we not only adhere to the traditional ancient creeds of Christianity but we also adhere closely to the Westminster Confession of Faith which was commissioned by the English parliament in the 1640s. Presbyterians were one of the denominations to adopt this statement as a foundational expression of its understanding of Christian theology based on the teachings of the Bible.

The Presbyterian Church of Australia was formed in 1901 and its Basis of Union was that the Supreme Standard of the united church was to be the Word of God contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and the Subordinate Standard would be the Westminster Confession of Faith, read in the light of the Declaratory Statement. The Declaratory Statement seeks to safeguard the church against mis-interpretations of the Confession and acts as an official commentary to various aspects of it.