Historic Baptist Principles
Being in agreement with the historical doctrinal position of Baptists, we choose to be called a “Baptist Church”, until this name shall be wholly associated with apostasy, heresy, and teachings other than those historical Baptist principles listed below:
- The pre-eminence of Christ as our Divine Lord and Master.
- The supreme authority of the King James (AV-1611) Bible and its sufficiency as our only rule of faith and practice.
- The competency of the individual soul to approach God and to interpret the Word of God according to the Leadership of the Holy Spirit.
- The absolute separation of Church and State, but obeying magistrates and governors in all secular matters that do not annul scriptural Christian responsibility.
- A regenerate Church membership, based upon faith in Christ as God’s only way of Salvation.
- The beautiful, symbolic ordinance of believer’s immersion in water as a figure of the salvation experience, a testimony of dying to self and the world, and spiritual submission to the Lord Jesus Christ.
- The complete autonomy of the local congregation, but also its independence in associated fellowship with other Baptist Churches of like faith.
- We believe in that blessed hope — the personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulation and imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when the church will be “gathered unto Him”.
- A world-wide program of missionary fervor and evangelism in accordance with the commandment of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.