Grace Baptist Church

WHAT WE BELIEVE

   Here at Grace, we are a church family that is seeking God, seeking His Grace, seeking His leadership and seeking His truth.  When someone seeks these things, he is seeking the best that life has to offer.  We also want you to seek these things with us.  Our desire is for you to enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and grow in the faith.
    A personal relationship with Christ-salvation-is the most important decision that anyone can make.  Before one can truly experience and seek the best things of life, a relationship with the Lord is necessary.  Why?  The Bible tells us that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23.  This means we are separated from God because of sin.  Thankfully, no one has to stay in this condition.  The Bible tells us why in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (ESV).   So, how does one enter into this personal relationship?  Again, the Bible is clear that "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved" Romans 10:9. 

    If you have already made this decision, the next step is to find a true church and follow Christ command of scriptural baptism and unite with that church family and begin your service to the Lord.  Certainly you worship God alone, but God has provided His church as a means of fellowship, mutual building up, and carrying on His work until He comes again.  Here at Grace, we are ordinary people living extraordinary lives and you can too.  We hope to see you soon.

                                 In His Service,
                                 Bro. Steven Sewell
                                 Pastor

Doctrinal Statement

(for complete statement and scripture go

to:www.abaptist.org/general.html)

1. . Love is the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent.

2. We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.

3. We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection.

4. We believe in the Genesis account of Creation.

5. We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.

6. We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.

7. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.

8. We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches.

9. We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts.

10. We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners.

11. We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe.

12. We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints.

13. We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age.

14. We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer.

15. We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish.

16. We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient.

17. We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it.

18. We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance.

19. We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.

20. We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches.

21. We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures.