; 110:1ff. We believe that the great Gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in Him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin and the gift of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done; but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood. To maintain responsible standards of speech and action so as to avoid profanity, vulgarity, and harassment or acts of physical assault or violence. It excludes boasting and promotes humility. The problem arises, however, when we make being Baptist a badge of honor rather than a method of identification. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. All true believers endure to the end. Boston Baptist College is a community of born-again Christians committed to disciplined obedience to the example and teachings of Christ in all matters of faith and practice. ; 4:110; 8:17, 11; 15:14; Ecclesiastes 7:19; Matthew 5:2; 7:24ff. It is the responsibility of each Christian to learn, believe, and live every doctrine taught in Gods Word. We believe that repentance and faith are solemn obligations, and also inseparable graces, wrought in our souls by the quickening Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 1 Corinthians 15:51-54; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 3:10), Section 23: The Eternal State of the Saved and The Lost, We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men: the saved to eternal life and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. ; Mark 2:2728; 16:17; Luke 24:13, 3336; John 4:2124; 20:1, 1928; Acts 20:7; Romans 14:510; I Corinthians 16:12; Colossians 2:16; 3:16; Revelation 1:10. The new birth opens all human faculties and creates a thirst for knowledge. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government, free from interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; that the one and only Superintendent is Christ through the Holy Spirit; that it is scriptural for true churches to cooperate with each other in contending for the faith and for the furtherance of the Gospel; that every church is the sole and only judge of the measure and method of its cooperation; and that on all matters of membership, policy, government, discipline, or benevolence, the will of the local church is final. Baptist Deacon, there are some churches that have no statement of faith. To display respect for Gods creation and His provisions and to specifically practice respect for and courtesy to all persons equally. Matthew 16:1519; 18:1520; Acts 2:4142, 47; 5:1114; 6:36; 13:13; 14:23, 27; 15:130; 16:5; 20:28; Romans 1:7; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 3:16; 5:45; 7:17; 9:1314; 12; Ephesians 1:2223; 2:1922; 3:811, 21; 5:2232; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:18; 1 Timothy 2:914; 3:115; 4:14; Hebrews 11:3940; 1 Peter 5:14; Revelation 23; 21:23. We believe the Scriptures teach that Christian baptism is the immersion in water of a believer, into the name of the Father, and Son, and Holy Ghost; to show forth in a solemn and beautiful emblem, our faith in the crucified, buried, and risen Savior, with its effect, in our death to sin and resurrection to a new life; that it is prerequisite to (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 3:16-17; 28:19-20; Mark 12:29; 1 Peter 1:2). Given that human life is God's creation, including the life of the unborn, we affirm the "sanctity of life" as an integral representation of our college faith and values. The Holy Spirit conceived His incarnationin a miraculous manner. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. NOVEMBER 1994. We believe that the Church, which is the Body of Christ, was begun on the Day of Pentecost. Realizing the importance, privilege and responsibility of the preaching and teaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, First Baptist Church believes the following: 1. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord. To respect leadership and support harmony that is compatible with biblical truth, understanding that insubordination in any form incompatible with any professional relationship with Boston Baptist College. ; Psalms 2:7ff. It is to become a part of Gods family, which includes all the rights and privileges of that relationship. It summarizes key Southern Baptist thought in the areas of the Bible and its authority, the nature of God as expressed by the Trinity, the spiritual condition of man, God's plan of grace and salvation, the purpose of the local church, ordinances, evangelism, Christian education, interaction . Doctrinal Statement. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Christs people should, as occasion requires, organize such associations and conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great objects of the Kingdom of God. (Ephesians 5:21-6:4), We believe that man was created innocent, in the image of God, and under His law; Adam fell from his sinless state by voluntary transgression and all men sinned in him. Portuguese It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. The first day of the week is the Lords Day. In this Statement of Faith, our Constitution, and all other documents, policies, and ministries of Baptist Christian Church, wherever the word man/men appears, it shall always mean a person who is born, according to Gods sovereign plan and design, male; and wherever the word woman/women appears, it shall always mean a person who is born, according to Gods sovereign plan and design, female. Jesus said He is the Door (singular), and any other path is . STATEMENT OF FAITH. Justification includes the pardon of sin and the imputationof Gods righteousness. We do consider the knowledge, belief, and acceptance of the truth as set forth in this doctrinal statement to be essential to sound faith and practice. We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God, who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon Him our nature, yet without sin, honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and by His death made a full and vicarious atonement for our sins; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was the voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner's place, the Just dying for the unjust, Christ the Lord, bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; and that, having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven and uniting in His wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfection. He was born of the virgin Mary as no other man was ever born nor can ever be born. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever-present Lord. We believe that man was created in innocence under the law of his Maker, but by voluntary transgression fell from his sinless and happy state. Christianity is the faith of enlightenment and intelligence. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. It is more than just legal standing or even a change of nature. He seals, enlightens, instructs, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies, and helps every born-again believer. We must remember that first and foremost, we are Christians blood-bought, eternally saved, Christ professing, grace given, mercy receiving, repentant sinners who the Father in heaven has spared from the fiery pits of Hell! When He returns to the earth with His saints, we believe that Jesus Christ will establish His millennial Kingdomand will reign for one thousand years. ; 2; 1 Timothy 6:14; 2 Timothy 4:1, 8; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 9:2728; James 5:8; 2 Peter 3:7ff. According to the Scriptures, Christians should contribute of their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemers cause on earth. Genesis 1:1; 2:7; Exodus 3:14; 6:23; 15:11ff. Christian people throughout the world should pray for the reign of the Prince of Peace. "[3], The BF&M was revised in 1963 (under the chairmanship of pastor-theologian Herschel H. Hobbs), amended in 1998 (with the addition of Section XVIII on The Family), and again revised in 2000 under the chairmanship of pastor-author and former three-time SBC President Adrian Rogers; the 2000 revisions incorporated sociological as well as theological changes and were considered the most controversial. 1. God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. Exodus 20:317; Leviticus 6:25; Deuteronomy 10:12; 27:17; Psalm 101:5; Micah 6:8; Zechariah 8:16; Matthew 5:1316, 4348; 22:3640; 25:35; Mark 1:2934; 2:3ff. The fact that we find our roots of faith in the same fertile soil as millions of others who have gone before us is a matter of Gods sovereigntynothing more! Because of His great love, God provided a way for humanity to be put right with him. I have heard folk say, I am Baptist to the bone if you cut me bless God, Ill bleed Baptist! We believe that justification is the judicial act of God declaring us to be righteous through faith in Christ Jesus. (Matthew 26:17-29; Acts 2:46; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; 1 Corinthians 11:23-33), We believe that the Universal Church, which is Christs body, has been given a mandate by Christ Himself to be Gods missionary society to the entire world. Parents are to demonstrate to their children Gods pattern for marriage. He permanently indwells the Church and the body of each believer. These are the beliefs and biblical distinctives of First Baptist Classical Academy in Kamloops. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. Adapted from the 1853 New Hampshire Confession of Faith . As stated in Matthew 4:4 (ESV): But He answered, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. We are to observe and do all things Christ has commanded us (teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. (Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:8-10; Philippians 1:23; Philippians 3:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Revelation 20:4-6), We believe the souls of unbelievers remain in conscious misery after death until the second resurrection when the soul and body are reunited and they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We commit ourselves to the historical grammatical interpretation of the Scriptures that verify the literal, bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave. A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Pre-Millennial, KJV Baptist Church. The Holy Bible, God's Inspired Word, is the Absolute and Supreme Authority. Genesis 1:27; 2:7; Matthew 6:67, 24; 16:26; 22:21; John 8:36; Acts 4:1920; Romans 6:12; 13:17; Galatians 5:1, 13; Philippians 3:20; 1 Timothy 2:12; James 4:12; 1 Peter 2:1217; 3:1117; 4:1219. ; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53:112; Matthew 1:1823; 3:17; 8:29; 11:27; 14:33; 16:16, 27; 17:5; 27; 28:16, 19; Mark 1:1; 3:11; Luke 1:35; 4:41; 22:70; 24:46; John 1:118, 29; 10:30, 38; 11:2527; 12:4450; 14:711; 16:1516, 28; 17:15, 2122; 20:120, 28; Acts 1:9; 2:2224; 7:5556; 9:45, 20; Romans 1:34; 3:2326; 5:621; 8:13, 34; 10:4; 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2:2; 8:6; 15:18, 2428; 2 Corinthians 5:1921; 8:9; Galatians 4:45; Ephesians 1:20; 3:11; 4:710; Philippians 2:511; Colossians 1:1322; 2:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:1418; 1 Timothy 2:56; 3:16; Titus 2:1314; Hebrews 1:13; 4:1415; 7:1428; 9:1215, 2428; 12:2; 13:8; 1 Peter 2:2125; 3:22; 1 John 1:79; 3:2; 4:1415; 5:9; 2 John 79; Revelation 1:1316; 5:914; 12:1011; 13:8; 19:16. Each church, however, is to depend solely upon the Holy Bible for Faith and Practice. The denomination's statement of faith was revised in 2000 to state: "While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture." . 14. We believe the Lord's coming to be imminent. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift from God. However, for more contemporary churches which have elders, the interpretation has been extended to this office as well, thus prohibiting women from being elders. We believe they each have precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections. 216 views, 5 likes, 5 loves, 3 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from New Hope Baptist Church, Marshville, NC: sunday service There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, and where there are no Christian works of obedience then faith is dead. (Exodus 15:11; 20:2-3; Psalm 90:2; 147:5; Jeremiah 10:10; Mark 12:30; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 1:17; Revelation 4:11). ; 5:810; 6:123; 8:118, 2939; 10:910, 13; 13:1114; 1 Corinthians 1:18, 30; 6:1920; 15:10; 2 Corinthians 5:1720; Galatians 2:20; 3:13; 5:2225; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; 2:822; 4:1116; Philippians 2:1213; Colossians 1:922; 3:1ff. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. A summary of what most Baptist Associations include is found in one of our Baptist.org presentations, Why We Are Baptists. To work for the betterment of the institution as a whole and to strive to personal excellence and development as a means to that end. Inclusion of a statement that Baptists honor the principles of soul competency and the priesthood of believer. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. [citation needed] Nothing in the BF&M prohibits or discourages the wife from holding outside employment, nor the husband from doing household duties traditionally considered those of the wife. In setting forth this Doctrinal Statement, we by no means set aside or undervalue any of the Scripture of the Old and New Testaments. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:20 ESV). This is a family that we are not born intorather, the Father of this family willfully and purposefully brought us in. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which men enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Believers may fall into sin through neglect and temptation, whereby they grieve the Spirit, impair their graces and comforts, and bring reproach on the cause of Christ and temporal judgments on themselves; yet they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. His atonementconsisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was a voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinners place. . Smith, James A., Sr. "A confession of faith worthy of support." He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of all mankind from sin. In the introduction to his classic work, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, published in 1738, Jonathan Edwards, pastor of the Congregational Church in Northampton, Mass., described the behavior of the town youth prior to the awakening of 1733: Licentiousness for some years prevailed among the youth of the town; there were many of them very much addicted to night-walking, and . He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. Article VI. We also believe in the personal, visible, and glorious return of Christ to the earth with His saints at the end of the Great Tribulation. Statement of Faith. 1714 SE 36th Ave; Ocala . To be a model of biblical character in all aspects of deportment and interactions and so to avoid any offensive or inappropriate activity or appearance that could impugn the integrity of the institution. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person; equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature; that He was active in the creation; that in His relation to the unbelieving world He restrains the Evil One until God's purpose is fulfilled; that He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; that He bears witness to the truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony; that He is the Agent in the New Birth; that He seals, endues, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies, and helps the believer. There is one and only one living and true God. Contact. They shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting punishment. As Gods created beings, living under His Lordship, all other sexual activity, including premarital sex, extramarital sex, polygamy, bisexual acts, same-sex marriage, homosexual acts, and bestiality violate clear biblical teaching on sexual purity (Rom. Genesis 1:2630; 2:5, 7, 1822; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:36; 32:15; 51:5; Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:2631; Romans 1:1932; 3:1018, 23; 5:6, 12,19; 6:6; 7:1425; 8:1418, 29; 1 Corinthians 1:2131; 15:19, 2122; Ephesians 2:122; Colossians 1:2122; 3:911. ; 1 Thessalonians 5:2324; 2 Timothy 1:12; Titus 2:1114; Hebrews 2:13; 5:8-9; 9:2428; 11:112:8, 14; James 2:1426; 1 Peter 1:223; 1 John 1:62:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:122:5. Confidential issues will be discussed only in secured settings so as to prohibit even the unintentional compromise of sensitive information. Watch Live Here : https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=https://bit.ly/Highschoolbasketball_BoysThe Faith Baptist (Davison, MI) varsity . Immersion of believers and the Lords Supper the only two ordinances. The Family. Christian unity in the New Testament sense is spiritual harmony and voluntary cooperation for common ends by various groups of Christs people. He is eternally existing in three persons Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that, by His finished work on the cross and His unceasing ministry of intercession in Glory, Jesus Christ has procured for every believer eternal redemption, eternal salvation, and everlasting life. 3. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self-government, free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. ", Those words are commonly referred to as the "red letter words", based on the. It is instantaneous and not a process. The new birth of the one who was dead in trespasses and sins is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God. We believe that Christs Universal Church is manifested through the local church which is a congregation of immersed believers.
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