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What Do We Believe?

The attempt to state our beliefs in a concise manner goes all the way back to that first century church.  Over time, as heresies have increased, the conciseness of our statements have decreased for good reason.  Today we have this heritage of well-thought-out statements of beliefs which better equip us to face the heresies of today.

Though what we believe in reality is more than what we could say in a creed and it is what we are living out in our lives along with our preaching and teaching, we still look to these creeds to battle our own practical heresies.  In the end, this church is full of sinners and we are nothing more than "poor beggars showing other poor beggars where there is bread.  

“This ancient document is the most excellent epitome of the things most surely believed among us. It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness. It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured. We hold to the humbling truths of God's sovereign grace in the salvation of lost sinners. Salvation is through Christ alone and by faith alone.”

This Confession is very similar to the Confession of 1689.  


I have also included a link to a history of the Baptist church.  I would encourage you to look at it, especially considering the final section which begins like this:

"America had a strong independent mentality and this worldview began to spill over into the Church. As with any independent, self-centered worldview, the Sovereign God is placed on the shelf, so to speak, for a God who will not impede upon our independence. This type of ethos was what led to the beginning of the decline of the Particular Baptist beliefs."

Read the full story of the Baptists, including their recent decline in doctrine here: The Primer on Baptist History

February 26th

We are slowly progressing verse by verse through the book of Ephesians. We're currently in ch. 2 "How Big is Your View of God's Salvation?"

Our 1pm Doctrine Class will focus on the question "Is Jesus the only way to God?" What about the Native American Indians? 

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