Emmanuel Baptist Church

Here is our church doctrinal statement. Is this what you are looking for? Clarification: We do have some KJVO people in our church but the deacons and I (pastor) use multiple translations in our teaching and preaching preparation. We use the KJV for public service use. CONCERNING THE SCRIPTURES: We believe in the verbal, plenary (full) inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. We believe that the Bible reveals God, the fall of man, the way of salvation, and God’s plan and purpose in the ages (2 Peter 1:20–21; 2 Timothy 3:16–17). We also maintain that the King James Bible is the best representation of the original Scriptures in the English language today, and therefore the very Word of God. CONCERNING GOD: We believe there is one God eternally existent in Three Persons: God the
Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16–17; Matthew 28:19; 1 John 5:7). CONCERNING JESUS CHRIST: We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His shed blood for the atonement of sin, His bodily resurrection, and His bodily ascension into Heaven to be our Intercessor (John 1:1; John 10:30; Matthew 1:21–23; Hebrews 10:10; Luke 24:39; Acts 1:10–11; Hebrews 7:25). CONCERNING THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN: We believe that God created man in His own image and that man came into the world by direct creation of God and not by the process of evolution. We believe that man was created in innocence, but that by voluntary transgression he fell. We believe that all men are by nature and choice sinful and lost and have within themselves no possible means of salvation (Genesis 1:26–28; John 3:18–19). CONCERNING SALVATION: We believe that salvation is by the grace of God apart from the works of man–the conditions are repentance and faith (Ephesians 2:8–9; Acts 4:12; Hebrews 6:1). CONCERNING JUSTIFICATION: We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). CONCERNING SATAN: We believe in the existence and personality of Satan (Job 1:6–7; 1 Peter 5:8). CONCERNING THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST: We believe in the visible, personal, pre–tribulational, pre-millennial return of Jesus Christ (Acts 1:10, 11; 1 Thessalonians 4:13–17). CONCERNING HEAVEN AND HELL: We believe in the everlasting conscious punishment of the wicked in Hell and the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saints in Heaven (Matthew 25:46; Revelation 20:11–15). CONCERNING THE LOCAL CHURCH: We believe that the local church is a group of born-again, baptized believers joined together for the purpose of carrying out the great commission (Matthew 28:19– 20). CONCERNING THE ORDINANCES: We believe that the two Scriptural ordinances given to the local church are baptism by immersion of believers only, and the Lord’s Supper to be partaken by obedient Christians (Acts 8:37–39; 1 Corinthians 11:23–24). CONCERNING THE FREENESS OF SALVATION: We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by the Gospel, and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the Gospel. This rejection involves him in an aggravated condemnation (John 5:39–40; 3:18–19; 1 Timothy 2:3–4). CONCERNING THE SECURITY OF THE BELIEVER: We believe the Scriptures teach “once saved, always saved,” but that this does not mean the believer has the freedom to live as he pleases. We believe that all who are genuinely saved will live a life which distinguishes them from the world because they are kept by the power of God unto salvation (John 10:27–29; Romans 8; 1 Peter 1:5; 2 Corinthians 5:17 –18). CONCERNING BIBLICAL SEPARATION: From Sin: Each born–again Christian has 
been called to holiness and godly living for fruitful service before the Lord (Romans 12:1 –3).We, therefore, determine to maintain a life-style that is separated from sinful and worldly practices (1 John 2:15–17) as being necessary for true discipleship and biblical fruitbearing (Matthew 13:8, 23; John 15:2, 5, 8). From Religious Modernism and Apostasy: We recognize that we are in the “last days” before the Lord’s return and are, therefore, engaged in a great spiritual struggle (Ephesians 6:10–18). To maintain the purity of Bible doctrine and the Body of Christ, the Church, we earnestly determine by God’s grace to remain separate from all organizations, denominations, and movements associated with or affiliated with the National and World Councils of Churches and the National Association of Evangelicals. We, furthermore, maintain that we cannot have any true fellowship nor make common cause with the unscriptural movements of today. They include the Pentecostal, Charismatic, Ecumenical, and Neo–Evangelical movements (Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14; 1 Timothy 6:3–5).