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…including the Triune nature of God, the deity and virgin birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, and justification by faith apart from works. Salvation from sin and eternal life is available only through faith alone in Christ’s vicarious atoning death on the cross of Calvary, given freely to redeem fallen man from the guilt and condemnation of his sin, and in His bodily resurrection 3 days thereafter.
(1) The first and primary Baptist doctrine, from which all others derive, being the Sole Authority of the Scriptures. God’s Word, as contained and preserved in the King James Bible, is to be the exclusive authority for faith and practice in the Church (2 Tim. 3:16-17, Dt. 4:2, Prov.30:5, Rev. 22:18-19). (2) Complete Separation of Church and State. The civil government has no authority to support or enforce, nor to oppose or limit, the free exercise of any religion that causes no common law harm to other men. Further, because the Bible is the sole authority for faith and practice in the church, and because the Lord Jesus is “head over all things to the church” (Eph. 1:22), extra-biblical civil/societal statute law has no authority whatsoever in the church or over church affairs. Acts 5:29; 1 Cor. 6:1-8, Matt. 16:18; Acts 17:7. (3) Two Ordinances Only (Believer’s Baptism by Immersion and the Lord’s Supper). (4) Two Offices Only (Elder and Deacon). (5) the Priesthood of the Believer (“soul liberty”). (6) Regenerated Church Membership composed only of born-again and Biblically baptized members. We further hold that in this present age, (7) Christ’s Church is neither universal nor invisible, and exists only as an Autonomous and self-governing, local and visible assembly of born-again believers in Christ.
When we repent of our former rebellion and sin (such repentance being integral with and inseparable from saving faith), and receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and are truly “born-again” (John 3:3-8), we become the immediate recipients of eternal life; we are immediately justified (Rom. 3:24-25), adopted (Rom 8:15-17), sealed by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 1:13, 4:30), and regenerated (given new life and empowered with a new nature); we are forever “kept by the power of God” to an eternal inheritance that cannot be “lost,” as it is “incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you.”
1 Peter 1:3-5, John 5:24, 2 Cor. 5:17; John 10:25-29, Hebrews 9:12 & 10:9-14, etc.
As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ we are commanded, and therefore have every right and duty under God, to go into all the world to preach the gospel and to make disciples of all men. Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16; Acts 5:29; 1 Cor. 9:16.
…to earth in power and glory, to commence His personal reign and rule as King over all the earth for one thousand years.
Revelation 20:1-6; Matthew 24:29-31; 2 Timothy 4:1; Isaiah 9:6-7 & 2:1-4 1 Thessalonians 1:10, 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-53; Philippians 3:20-21, etc.
We further believe as taught in Matthew 24:29-31 & 13:30, 2 Thes. 2:1-8, Rev. 20:4 etc. that the saints will be gathered together to Christ at His glorious return “immediately after the tribulation of those days,” and not before. We therefore also believe that the saints are to be on guard against any implementation of the “mark of the beast” of Rev. 13, and that the present social security system and its numbering of the people as prerequisite to conducting commerce is a precursor to such a system that God’s people should be wary of.
Find out more about what we believe by listening to sermons preached by Pastor Sam Adams.