STATEMENT OF FAITH

1. The Bible is God's inspired Word, the all sufficient rule of faith and practice.
2. There is one eternal, true, living, and sovereign God, a Trinity.
3. Jesus Christ is God the Son Who died, was buried, raised again, and ascended to God the Father, to redeem a people for Himself.
4. The Holy Spirit is God the Spirit Who sanctifies, regenerates, keeps, guides, and empowers all believers.
5. All persons are totally sinful by nature and choice, and need salvation in Christ.
6. God calls a people eternally appointed to life in Jesus Christ.
7. Justification is by grace through faith in Christ and is evidenced by good works.
8. Only those professing faith in Jesus Christ may participate in the ordinances.
9. The two ordinances given to the local church are baptism and the Lord's Supper.
10. Baptism is immersion in water picturing the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, and the believer's new life in Him.
11. The Lord's Supper commemorates Jesus' death until He returns.
12. Each believer is responsible only to God according to His Word.
13. Jesus is coming again to judge the living and the dead.
14. There will be a new heaven, new earth, and new Jerusalem for believers.
15. There will be a lake of fire for unbelievers with the devil and his angels.
16. Each local church is an independent assembly and responsible for carrying out the great commission of Jesus Christ.
17. The secular government shall not restrict or place undue influence on any church, thus maintaining the separation of church and state.

(Please see also The Baptist Church Manual by J. Newton Brown, 1853, Philadelphia Baptist Confession of Faith, 1742, and The London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689.)