What We Believe
The Scriptures
We believe The Bible to be the inspired Word of God; and that it is the only complete and final revelation of God’s will to man: and that it is the supreme standard of all faith and practice. [II Tim. 3:16-17, II Peter 1:18-21]
God
We believe that the Scriptures reveal God as eternally existing, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent, and manifesting Himself in Three Persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--One in essence and power.
[Ex. 3:14; Gen. 1:1; Matt. 28:19; II Cor. 13:14]
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The Person and Work of Jesus Christ
We believe in the Deity of The LORD JESUS CHRIST; His Virgin Birth; His sinless life; HIs substitutionary death on the cross for our sins; His physical resurrection from the grave; His ascension to the right hand of God where He ever liveth to make intercession for Believers; and His personal, feasible, bodily return to the earth at the end of this age.
[Matt. 1:18; John 1:14; Matt. 20:28; 1 Peter 1:18; 1 Cor. 15:14; Acts 1:11; I Thess. 4:16, 17]
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The Holy Spirit
We believe that the HOLY SPIRIT is a person, possessed of all the distinctive Divine attributes. We believe that He is the Administrator of the things of God-- convincing of sin, revealing Truth, energizing believers in matters of prayer and service and restraining evil “until He be taken out of the way.” [II Thess. 2:7; Psalm 139:7-10]
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Man
We believe God made man in His own image and in His own likeness and that man came into the world by a direct creative act of God and not by evolution; that this creative act of God was separate and distinct from any other work of God. We believe the Scripture record of the fall of man through disobedience to God, and that by nature man is “dead in trespasses and sins.”
[Gen. 1:26; 9:6; Rom. 5:12; Psalm 53:5]
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Salvation
We believe salvation to be by Grace through Faith, wholly apart from human merit and that every individual is a sinner by birth and by choice and therefore MUST exercise personal faith in the redeeming work of Christ on Calvary in order to be saved.
[Eph. 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; Psalm 51:5; Rom. 3:23; 10:9,10]
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Satan
​We believe in the reality and personality of satan; that he is a created being once known as “The anointed cherub that covereth.” That through pride he fell-- that he is “the god of this world” and the “Prince of the power of the air,” and that he will be judged at the revelation of Jesus Christ and ultimately cast into the lake of fire.
[Matt. 13:19; John 8:44; Eph. 2:2; Rev. 20:10]
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Heaven and Hell
We believe in a heaven of eternal bliss for all who, through faith in The Lamb of God, have become the children of God, and the lake of fire of eternal judgment for all who have NOT received the forgiveness of sins which is through Jesus Christ.
[Rev. 21:1-8]
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The Church and Its Ordinances
We believe the local Fundamental Baptist Church is a voluntary association of baptized believers, equal in rank and privilege, subject to the Work of God, and independent of any external ecclesiastical control whatsoever. We believe God’s Word commands every believer [and believers only, Acts 2:41] to be baptized, and that the only Scriptural mode is by immersion.
We believe the Ordinance of the Lord’s Supper should be observed as Christ said, “In remembrance of His broken body and shed blood: for us, and that the Supper has no sacramental virtue.
[1 Cor. 11:23-26]
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Evangelism
We believe it is the solemn obligation OF EVERY BELIEVER to be a personal soul winner and to do his utmost to carry out hte Saviour’s command to give the Gospel to the whole world.
[Matt. 28:19]
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Marriage and Family
We believe that marriage was ordained by God at creation as the sacred union of one man and one woman. All sexual relations must therefore be reserved for that union. Christian marriage is a representation of Christ’s relationship to His church. WE also believe that children are a blessing from the Lord. Thus all human life is sacred and worthy of protection from the moment of conception.
[Gen. 1:26-28; 2:24; Psalm 127, 128; 139:13-16; Matt. 19:1-10; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; Eph. 5:22-33; Heb. 13:4]
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Statement on Homosexuality
Whereas we believe the Scriptures to be the inerrant infallible Word of God in all things, and whereas the Scriptures clearly calls homosexuality sin (Rom. 1:26,27; Lev. 18:22), be it resolved that no practitioner of homosexuality will be admitted to the membership, called to serve in any office, or remain part of the membership until such time as the individual forsakes the practice and repents.
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