Statement of Faith
We believe
that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of
the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. (John 1:12-13;
John 3:3-16; Acts 16:31; Ephesians 2:8-9)
We believe
in the eternal security of the believer, that it is impossible for one
born into the family of God ever to be lost because he is forever kept
by the power of God. (John 6:39, 49; John
10:28-29; Romans 8:35-39; Jude 1; I Peter 1:5)
We believe in
“that blessed hope” – the personal, premillennial, pretribulational and
imminent return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, when the Church
will be “gathered together unto Him”. (Titus 2:13; John 14:1-3; I
Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-58; II Thessalonians 2:1-13)
We believe in the literal
fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which
foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as
a nation. (Genesis 13:14-17; Jeremiah 16:14-15; Jeremiah 30:6-11;
Romans 11)
We believe in
the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting
blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.
(Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 16:19-31; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation
21:1-8)
We believe
that the local church is the agency through which God has chosen to
accomplish His work in the world. A New Testament Baptist church is an
organized body of baptized believers, immersed upon a credible
confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, having two offices (pastor
and deacon), congregational in policy, autonomous in nature, and banded
together for work, worship, edification, the observance of the
ordinances and the worldwide fulfillment of the Great Commission. We
believe that the local church, under Christ’s headship, is to be free
from any external hierarchy and should not associate itself with any
ecumenical endeavor, neo-orthodoxy, new evangelicalism, or any such
efforts to compromise the Truth. (Acts
2:41-47; Ephesians 3:10; Matthew 28:18-20; I Timothy 3; I Peter 5:1-3;
Ephesians 1:22; Romans 16:17; II Corinthians 6:14-17; I Timothy 6:3-5)
We believe
that the scriptural ordinances of the church are baptism and the Lord’s
supper and are to be administered by the local church; that baptism, by
immersion, should be administered to believers as a symbol of their
belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ and as a testimony to the world of that belief and of their
death, burial, and resurrection with Him. We believe that the Lord’s
supper should be partaken of by baptized believers to show forth His
death “till He come”. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts
2:41-47; Acts 8:26-39; I Corinthians 11:23-28; Colossians 2:12)
We believe
in the existence of a higher form of created beings the Bible calls
angels. That Satan was the highest ranking angel before his fall and is
now the enemy of God and man. However, this conquered enemy and the
angels who follow him are already judged but not sentenced to their
final reward.
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