What 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. Each Person is truly and fully God. None is greater or lesser than another in essence — they differ only in their personal relations and the order of their work.

This Triune God is not a philosophical abstraction but a personal, covenanting God who speaks, acts, redeems, and dwells with His people. All of creation exists for His glory. All of history moves toward the display of His perfections.

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. No king but Christ.

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.

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.

This is not cold speculation — it is the deepest comfort of the Christian life. Your salvation rests not on the frailty of your will, but on the immovable purpose of God. Those He predestined, He called. Those He called, He justified. Those He justified, He glorified. The chain cannot be broken.

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. This is the article by which the church stands or falls.

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 — not infants — because the new covenant is a covenant of regenerate members, sealed by the Spirit and confessed by faith.

We baptize by immersion, following the meaning of the Greek word baptizo and the practice of the early church, as a visible picture of death to self and resurrection to new life in Christ. Baptism does not save — it publicly declares what God has already accomplished in the soul of the believer.

The church is the covenant community called out by God, gathered around the preached Word, the two ordinances (baptism and the Lord's Supper), and governed by qualified officers — elders and deacons. Each local congregation is a complete expression of the body of Christ, accountable to Scripture and to the Chief Shepherd who gave His life for her.

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.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead. At the last day, all who have died will be raised — the righteous to eternal life, the wicked to eternal judgment. Christ will return visibly, bodily, and gloriously to consummate His kingdom and to judge all men according to their works.

We hold a postmillennial hope: that the gospel will spread through all the nations, that Christ's kingdom will fill the earth before His return, and that the Great Commission will not fail. This is not optimism — it is the promise of the God who declared that all the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord.