COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH of BEARDMORE

WHAT WE BELIEVE AND TEACH…

 THE BIBLE

We believe in the verbal-plenary inspiration by the Holy Spirit of the Old and New Testaments, which are completely inerrant in the original writings, infallible, and the final authority for faith and in practice.  (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21; Matthew 5:18; John 16:12-13)

 GOD

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three Persons – The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit – that these three have precisely the same nature, perfections, and attributes, which make them worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience.  (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 12:29; John 1:1-2, 14; 4:24; 10:30; Acts 5:3-4; 2 Corinthians 13:14; Hebrews 1:1-3; Revelation 1:4-6)

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

We believe in His eternal deity, virgin birth, vicarious atonement, bodily resurrection, present intercession; and in His personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulational, and imminent return.  (Matthew 1:18-25; Romans 4:25; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 3:10)

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, and that certain ministries have been committed to Him in this age – (1) to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, and (2) the regeneration, indwelling, enlightening, sealing unto the day of redemption, and the baptizing into the one body of Christ of each of the saved.  (John 3:6; 16:7-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 4:30; 5:18; 2 Thessalonians 2:7; 1 John 2:20-27)

 SPIRITUAL GIFTS

We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowment of all His gifts; and, that the gifts of evangelists, pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today; and, that speaking in tongues and the working of sign miracles gradually ceased as the nation of Israel was disciplined, the New Testament Scriptures were completed and their authority became established.  (Mark 16:20; 1 Corinthians 12-14; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 4:7-12).

MAN

We believe that man was originally created in the image and likeness of God; that he sinned by disobeying God; that he thereby incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God; that he thereby became subject to the power of Satan; that this spiritual death has been transmitted to the entire human race, the man Christ Jesus being the only exception, so that all are sinners by nature and practice.  (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Psalms 14:1-3; 51:5; Jeremiah 17:9; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; Romans 3:10-19; 8:6-7; Ephesians 2:1-3; 1 Timothy 5:6; 1 John 3:8)

SALVATION

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins vicariously and substitutionally according to the Scriptures; that our redemption from sin has been accomplished solely by His blood/death; that He was made to be sin for us, dying in our place and stead; that no degree of repentance, no feeling, no good resolutions, no sincere efforts, no submission to rules, ordinances or regulations of any church can add in the least degree to the value of the finished work of Jesus Christ at Calvary.  Thus, eternal salvation is not a reward for good people, it is a GIFT for sinners.  (Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 64:6; Matthew 26:28; John 1:29; 3:5, 18; Romans 3:25-26; 5:6-9; 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:14, 21; Galatians 3:13; 6:15; Ephesians 1:7; Philippians 3:4-9; Titus 3:5; Hebrews 10:5-14; James 1:18; 1 Peter 1:18-19, 23)

We believe that when an unregenerate person exercises faith in Christ, he passes from spiritual death into spiritual life; that he is immediately justified from all things; that he is immediately accepted before the Father as Christ, His Son, is accepted; and that he is loved by the Father as Christ is loved, having his place and portion linked to Him, and is one with Him forever.  Salvation is by grace alone, by faith alone in Christ alone.  (John 5:24; 17:23; Acts 13:39; Romans 5:1; 1 Corinthians 3:21-23; Ephesians 1:3; 2:8-9; Colossians 2:10; 1 John 4:17; 5:11-12)

ETERNAL SECURITY OF BELIEVERS

We believe that every one who is born again is kept by God’s power and is thus secure in Christ forever; that the assurance of salvation through knowledge of God’s Word is the privilege of every believer.  (John 5:24; 10:27-30; 13:1; 14:16-17; 17:11; Romans 8:29, 35-39; 1 Corinthians 1:4-8; Galatians 5:13; Hebrews 7:25; 1 Peter 1:5; 1 John 2:1-2; 5:13; Jude 24)

RESPONSIBILITY OF BELIEVERS

We believe that every believer is commanded to be filled/controlled by the Holy Spirit, seeking to walk in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon the Lord Jesus Christ, witnessing by life and word to the truths of the Bible, seeking to proclaim the Gospel to all the world, remembering the work of the Lord in prayer, and supporting it with his means as God has prospered him.  (Ephesians 5:17-18; Galatians 5:16; Acts 1:8; 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 9:7)

SATAN

We believe in the personality and subtlety of Satan; that he is the devil, the author of sin, and the adversary of God and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the lake of fire. (Job 1:6-7; Isaiah 14:12-17; Matthew 4:2-11; 25:41; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4; Revelation 20:2, 10)

THE CHURCH

We believe that the Church, which is now the body and shall be the bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of born-again persons of this age irrespective of their affiliation with Christian organizations.  It originated at Pentecost and will be taken away at the rapture.  (Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14; Colossians 3:14-15)

We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament.  (Acts 14:27; 20:17; 28-32; 1 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11)

ORDINANCES

We believe that two ordinances are commanded in Scripture for Christians to observe, namely, water baptism and the Lord’s Supper. While recognizing that water baptism has no saving merit, we believe that after one is saved, baptism is a step of obedience portraying to the world the believer’s union with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. It is our conviction that the scriptural method of water baptism is immersion. We believe that Jesus Christ instituted the Lord’s Supper to commemorate His death till He comes. We further believe that water baptism by immersion is observed but once, and is a sign of identification and testimony to newness of life, but the Lord’s Supper is commemorative and is to be observed often as a memorial of the body and the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord’s Supper shall be open to all born again believers (Acts 2:41, 42; 18:8; Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:9-13; Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-33).

THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST

We believe in that “blessed hope,” the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to earth, with His saints, to establish His Millennial Kingdom (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16; 20:1-6; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; 5:9; Revelation 3:10; Titus 2:13; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52; John 14:1-3).

THE ETERNAL STATE

We believe that the soul and human spirit of those who have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do at death immediately pass into His presence, and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at His coming; when soul, human spirit, and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in glory.

But the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery until the final judgment at the Great White Throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.  (Luke 16:19-26; 23:43; 2 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Revelation 20:11-15)

DISPENSATIONALISM

We believe in a dispensational method of Bible interpretation, but reject the teaching known as hyper-dispensationalism, such as that teaching which opposes either the Lord’s Supper or water baptism as a Scriptural means of testimony for the local church in this age.  (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:8; 1 Corinthians 1:14-16; 11:23-26)

For our complete doctrinal statement or copy of our CBC Constitution, please feel free to contact Rick