True Gospel Baptist Church

We are Independent:

True Gospel Baptist Church is not a member of any ecclesiastical organizations but is wholly independent. This does not mean we have isolated ourselves. We consider churches of like faith to be our friends and enjoy Christian fellowship.

We are Fundamental:

True Gospel Baptist Church believes that certain essential truths should be believed and defended by all Christians.

I --- THE SCRIPTURES

We believe that the Scriptures are divinely inspired, that they are the inerrant Word of God and that they are the supreme and final authority in faith and conduct.

II --- GOD

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons---Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

III ---- JESUS CHRIST

We believe that Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man (God-man).

We believe Christ arose from death and the grave after three days.

Lk 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

1 Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

IV --- HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, one with the Father and the Son, the Indweller of every believer thereby each is sealed unto the day of redemption of the body.

V --- THE DEVIL

We believe in the existence and operation of a real and personal being opposed to all righteousness and exalting himself against all that God is and has, the evil one called Satan or the Devil.

VI --- HELL

We believe in a literal Hell, a place of excruciating torment. Hell is a place prepared for the devil and his angels and a place where all those outside of Christ go at death. Those who go to hell remain there until the Great White Throne Judgment when they shall be judged. Death and Hell shall be cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.

VII ----HEAVEN

We believe in a literal place called Heaven where God's immediate presence is manifested. Heaven is where the angels are, and where the redeemed shall ultimately be. Christ descended from and ascended again to heaven, where He maketh intercession for the saints, and from whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

VIII ---- MAN

We believe that God created man in His own image and in a state of innocence. Through temptation, however, man willfully transgressed and became dead in trespasses and sins. His posterity, therefore inherited a corrupt nature, being born in sin and under condemnation.

IX --- SALVATION

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scripture, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that He arose from the dead in His glorified body, and ascended into Heaven as our great High Priest and Advocate. He ever lives to make intercession for us. We further believe that all who believe on His name are justified on the grounds of His shed blood and receive the gift of eternal life by the grace of God.

X ---- REGENERATION

We believe that regeneration is a divine and instantaneous work of the Holy Spirit whereby God imparts life to one dead in trespasses and sins.

We believe repentance is a necessary ingredient for true conversion.

We reject all forms of what is commonly referred to as "easy believism".

Lk. 13:5 I tell you, Nay but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

XI --- SANCTIFICATION

We believe that sanctification is a divine and progressive work of the Holy Spirit. Upon the grounds of the finished work of Christ on the cross, His present intercessory ministry, and His divine Word, God sets the believer apart and works out, in, and through the believer (by the means of a submissive will) that which is well pleasing to Himself through Jesus Christ. This work culminates in the redemption of the body.

XII --- THE CHURCH

We believe in the one true church, the Body and Bride of the Lord Jesus, composed of all believers from Pentecost to the Rapture, into which believers are baptized by the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the local church is an organization composed of professing believers instituted for fellowship, worship and service. In the matters of administration and policy, it is SELF-GOVERNING.

XIII --- BAPTISM

We believe that Christian baptism by immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is the Bible mode of baptism and testifies of the believer's faith in, and identification with, the crucified, buried and risen Savior.

XIV --- THE LORD'S SUPPER

We believe that the Lord's Supper is an ordinance whereby believers show forth the Lord's death until He comes.

We believe the ONLY two ordinances commanded in the New Testament are baptism and the Lord's Supper.

XV --- THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST

We believe in the glorious hope of the pre-millennial, imminent, visible, and bodily return of Christ.

XVI ---THE BODILY RESURRECTION OF CHRIST