FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES: Beliefs of Baptists “1. A spiritual Church, Christ its founder, its only head and law giver. 2. Its ordinances, only two, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are typical and memorial, not saving. 3. Its officers, only two, bishops or pastors and deacons; they are servants of the church. 4. Its Government, a pure Democracy, and that executive only, never legislative. 5. Its laws and doctrines: The New Testament and that only. 6. Its members. Believers only, that are saved by grace, not works, through the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. 7. Its requirements. Believers on entering the church to be baptized, that by immersion, then obedience and loyalty to all New Testament Laws. 8. The various churches-separate and independent in their execution of laws and discipline and in their responsibilities to God-but cooperative in work. 9. Complete separation of Church and State. 10. Absolute Religious Liberty for all”.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:12:30 +0000