We the members of Faith Reformed Baptist Church, agree and believe:
1 …that the Word of God is the Bible, written by God and given to us without error and is sufficient to reveal who God is and what He requires of us for our eternal happiness.
2Tim 3:16-17; Luke 16:31
2 …that God exists eternally in three Persons – the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
1John 5:7; Mat 28:19; 2Cor 13:14
3 …that God created the world in the space of six days and all for His glory.
Col 1:16; Gen 1:31
4 …that God created Adam and Eve in His image and that the sin of our first parents brought the rest of mankind into a state of sin, misery, bondage, and condemnation.
Gen 1:27; Rom 5:12
5 …that God’s law shows us who God is, what He requires of us, and, due to our sin, condemns us all.
Rom 3:20; Rom 7:7; Gal 3:24
6 …that our perfect obedience to the law of God is both impossible and insufficient to earn us a right standing with God.
Gal 3:11
7 …that God has revealed the only way of salvation from our sin in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 5:24; Rom 10:9-10
8 …that the Gospel was first revealed to Adam and Eve and then progressively revealed in the Old Testament until it was fully revealed in Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
Gen 3:15; Heb 1:1-2
9 …that Jesus Christ is fully God and fully man, the unique Mediator between God and man.
John 1:14; 1Tim 3:16; 1Tim 2:5
10 …that Jesus Christ perfect obeyed the law of God for us and died under the wrath of God for the forgiveness of our sins.
1 John 3:4-5; 1Pet 3:18
11 …that Jesus Christ rose from death for our justification and ascended into heaven to sit at His Father’s right hand.
1Cor 15:3-5; Heb 10:12
12 …that the salvation purchased by Jesus Christ is brought to men’s souls by the preaching of the gospel by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Rom 10:14: Rom 10:17
13 …that justification comes to us by faith alone, and is based on the righteousness of Christ and not based on anything in us.
Eph 2:8; 2Cor 5:21
14 …that faith is God’s gift to us by His Spirit, and all believers in Christ are justified, adopted, sanctified, and glorified by grace alone.
Eph 2:8; Rom 8:30
15 …that the Church of Jesus Christ is the community of all true believers.
1 Cor 1:2; Eph. 1:20-22
16 …that believers are brought into the local church by water baptism, which is for believers only.
Matt 28:19-20; Mark 16:16; Acts 8:36-37
17 …that the church is responsible to teach baptized believers all that Christ commanded them.
Matt 28:19-20;
18 …that the church is responsible to provide public worship where prayer, singing, Scripture reading, preaching, discipline, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper are to be conducted.
1 Tim 4:13; 1Tim 3:15; Eph 5:19; 1Cor 11:23-25
19 …that Sunday is the Lord’s Day, the day of public worship for Christians.
1 Cor. 16:1-2; Acts 20:7; Rev. 1:10
20 …that each local church is to be self-governed by its elders under the Word of God.
1Th 5:12; Heb. 13:17
21 …that each local church is called by Christ to spread the Gospel to others throughout the world.
Matt 28:19-20; Mark 16:15
22 …that the souls of believers who die before Christ returns enjoy temporary joy and satisfaction with Him in heaven.
Heb 12:23; Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:1,6,8
23 …that the Lord Jesus Christ will return to this earth a second time in glory to judge the living and the dead.
Acts 17:31; Rom 2:5-8; John 5:22; 2Cor 5:10
24 … that the bodies of believers will be resurrected when Christ returns at His Second Advent.
1Th 4:16; John 6:39, 40, 44, 54
25 …that all who reject the Gospel in hardened unbelief will suffer eternal, conscious punishment in Hell in both body and soul.
Mat 25:41-46; Mat 13:41-42; Rev 20:15
26 …that all those who believe the Gospel will not suffer condemnation but enter into the new heavens and the new earth in body and soul to enjoy eternal, joyous communion with God and other believers.