What We Believe

We believe there is one God: infinite, eternal, almighty, and perfect in holiness, truth, and love. In the unity of the Godhead there are three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-existent, co-equal, and co-eternal. The Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not the Father. Yet each is truly Deity. One God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — is the foundation of Christian faith and life.

God the Father

We believe in God the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power, and love. We believe that He infallibly foreknows all that shall come to pass, that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

God the Son

We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth.

God the Holy Spirit

We believe in the Holy Spirit, who came forth from the Father and the Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment; and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is our abiding helper, teacher, and guide.

Jesus Christ is God the Son — the eternal second Person of the Trinity — who took on human flesh in the virgin birth. He is truly and fully God, and truly and fully man: two natures in one Person, without confusion, change, division, or separation. He lived a sinless life, died as a substitutionary atonement for the sins of His people, rose bodily from the dead, ascended to the right hand of the Father, and now reigns as Prophet, Priest, and King over all creation.

Christ will return visibly and bodily to judge the living and the dead. His Lordship is not merely spiritual — it extends over every nation, family, and institution on earth. Christ is King over every king, and Lord over every lord.

We believe that man was created by God in His own image; that he sinned and thereby incurred physical, spiritual and eternal death, which is separation from God; that as a consequence, all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners by choice and therefore under condemnation. We believe that those who repent and forsake sin and trust Jesus Christ as Savior have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become new creatures, delivered from condemnation and receive eternal life.

After the fall, God did not abandon His creation. He entered into a Covenant of Grace — promising salvation through the seed of the woman, through Abraham's offspring, through David's line — fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the mediator of the new and better covenant. All the covenants of the Old Testament are administered expressions of this one Covenant of Grace.

As Reformed Baptists, we affirm that the new covenant is distinct in its administration from the Mosaic and Abrahamic covenants. Membership in the new covenant community is marked by regeneration and personal faith — not natural descent. Baptism is therefore administered to professing believers, as the sign of the new covenant applied to those who have been born again by the Spirit of God.

We believe that before the foundation of the world, God chose a people for Himself in Christ — not on the basis of foreseen faith or human merit, but according to His sovereign grace and good pleasure alone. All whom the Father has given to the Son will come to Him, and all who come to Him He will never cast out.

God is sovereign in salvation; He ordained to raise the spiritually dead through the resurrecting voice of His Spirit, bringing them to salvation in Christ. The Shepherd calls and the sheep hear His voice and obey.

Sinners are justified before God — declared righteous — solely on the basis of the perfect obedience and atoning death of Christ, received through faith alone. This faith is itself a gift of God, not produced by the natural will of man.

We are not justified by works, by cooperation with grace, by the sacraments, or by any human contribution whatsoever. Justification is entirely God's act, entirely Christ's merit, entirely received by faith.

Baptism is the ordinance of the new covenant, instituted by Christ, to be administered to those who have personally professed repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We baptize believers because the new covenant is a covenant of regenerate members, sealed by the Spirit and confessed by faith.

We baptize normatively by immersion, following the practice of the early church, as a visible picture of death to self and resurrection to new life in Christ.

The Oneness of the Church

We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Spirit, and associated for worship, work, and fellowship. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the task of making disciples of the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Triune God, and teaching them to obey all Christ commanded.

God founded His church in the promise of the Messiah given to Adam, which has continued throughout the ages until this day. When Christ came, one church was not taken away and another set up, but the same church was continued only in those who inherited the promises.

The Regulative Principle of Worship

We hold to the Regulative Principle of Worship — that God is to be worshiped only in the ways He has prescribed in Scripture. We do not add human inventions to His worship. We receive His gifts as He has given them: the Word preached, the Psalms and hymns sung, the Table spread, and the benediction pronounced.

The Ordinances of the Church

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe in Christian baptism administered in water into the name of the triune God. We believe in the Lord’s Supper as instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. 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. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.