What we Believe

Articles of Faith

Each person, in order to become and remain a member of First Baptist church, shall subscribe to the following declaration of faith:

We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God and is the supreme and final authority in matters of faith and practice.

We believe in One True God, eternal and infinite in every excellence. That in the unity of the Godhead there are three personal distinctions: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We affirm the absolute Deity of Jesus Christ, His eternal pre-existence, His Virgin Birth, Sinless Life, Vicarious and Atoning Death, sufficient Mediator between God and man. We believe in His personal, visible, pre-millennial return to earth, and that Salvation is the gift of God's grace through faith in Him.

We believe in the Personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men; to convince them of Sin in order to affect Repentance and Inspire Faith in Christ for the regeneration of their souls and the sanctification of their conduct.

We believe that Baptism is immersion of the Believer in water, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; that it sets forth the essential facts in redemption, namely, the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ; also, the essential experience in the life of the Believer - his death to sin and resurrection of newness of life. (Romans 6:4)

We believe that the Lord's Supper is a commemoration of the Lord's Death, and is to be observed as a memorial to Him until He comes again. (1 Corinthians 11:26)

We believe that the New Testament Church is a body of baptized Believers associated for worship, and organized for service, pre-eminently in the proclamation of the Gospel in all the world.