What We Believe

St. Aidan's Purpose

Exalting God
Embracing the community
Evangelizing the lost
Equipping the faithful
Encouraging the church family

St. Aidan's ANiC Church, Windsor is an evangelical Anglican church. We seek to be a biblically faithful and orthodox church within the evangelical stream of the Anglican Way of following Jesus.

We affirm the supremacy of the complete Canon of Holy Scripture, and we affirm the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) as our standard of doctrine and worship, including the Ordinal (with its preface), the 39 Articles of Religion, and the Solemn Declaration of 1893. We affirm the three ancient Western Creeds, (Apostles', Nicene and Athanasian). We also affirm the following two statements.

The Jerusalem Declaration

In the name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit:

We, the participants in the Global Anglican Future Conference, have met in the land of Jesus’ birth. We express our loyalty as disciples to the King of kings, the Lord Jesus. We joyfully embrace his command to proclaim the reality of his kingdom which he first announced in this land. The gospel of the kingdom is the good news of salvation, liberation and transformation for all. In light of the above, we agree to chart a way forward together that promotes and protects the biblical gospel and mission to the world, solemnly declaring the following tenets of orthodoxy which underpin our Anglican identity.

The Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials, 1994

The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) of which St. Aidan's is a member church sprang out of the Anglican Essentials movement. At it's inaugural conference in 1994 three groups came together out of concern for the erosion of orthodoxy in the Anglican Church of Canada and formed Anglican Essentials. Those three groups (The Prayer Book Society of Canada, Barnabas Anglican Fellowship and Anglican Renewal Ministries) although quite different from each other shared a common commitment to Holy Scripture and the historic Christian faith. At the conference the following declaration was adopted. It still expresses the faith we hold.

"In Essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."

-Richard Baxter, after St. Augustine

As members of the Anglican Church of Canada from every province and territory, and as participants in the Essentials '94 Conference in Montreal, we unite in praising God for his saving grace and for the fellowship we enjoy with our Lord and with each other. We affirm the following Christian essentials: