Our Beliefs

We believe in the verbal, plenary inspiration of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and that they compose the entire Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed; and therefore, are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the complete and divine revelation of God to man. The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning. The King James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only English-language translation used by Grace Baptist Church and all of its ministries.

We believe the Genesis account of creation as being neither allegory or myth, but a literal, historical account of the direct, immediate creative acts by God without an evolutionary process; that man, spirit, soul and body, were created by a direct work of God and not from previously existing form of life, and that all men are descended from the historical Adam and Eve, first parents of the entire human race.

(Genesis 1 and 2; Colossians 1:16; John 1:3)

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost. These are co-equal, three in one called the Trinity.

(I John 5:7; Hebrews 1:8; Acts 5:1-3; Romans 1:7; Matthew 28:19; I Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 2:9; Matthew 3:16,17)

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and that he is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing a believer into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit; and that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip believers in the assembly in order that they can do the work of the ministry. We also believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing were temporary. Speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism of the filling of the Holy Spirit and the ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing

( John 16:8-11; Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:12-14;

We believe in the personality and deity of Jesus Christ; that He is without beginning or end; that He was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died a substitutionary death; that He boldly arose from the grave and ascended to the right hand of God the Father, to be advocate for the saints, and is alive today.

(Matthew 1:18-23; Luke 1:30-35; John 1:1-15; Philippians 2:5-8; Colossians 1:15)

We believe that man, created in the image of God, sinned, and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is separation from God, and all human beings are born with a sin nature, and all men must receive Jesus Christ as Saviour in order to have reconciliation to God.

(Genesis 1:26,27; Romans 3:10-23, 5:12, 6:23; John 3:3)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as a substitutionary sacrifice and that all who believe in Him are justified through the shedding of His blood.

(I Corinthians 15:1-4; Luke 24; Acts 1:9-11; Romans 5:8-10; Ephesians 1:20-23; I Peter 3:18)

We believe in the literal resurrection of the crucified body of Jesus Christ, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate for us.

(Luke 24:1-7; Acts 1:11; Hebrews 7:24-28, 9:24; John 20; I Corinthians 15:12-28; Romans 4:25)

We believe all men were born with an inherited sin nature received from our common ancestors, Adam and Eve. We believe that because of this nature, man is a sinner by choice, and he is totally incapable of reforming himself or ceasing from his sin by his own power. We believe the only hope of deliverance for man is a total change of mind concerning his sinful condition and inability to change it, and a turning to Jesus Christ is the only way we can achieve that. We believe that only through the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ on the Cross can a man be delivered from his sin. We believe that all those who reject Jesus Christ as their Saviour are already condemned to an eternity in the Lake of Fire

(Genesis 5:1-5; Acts 4:19; Acts 16:31; Romans 3:10-23; Romans 5:6-12; Romans 6:23; Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5-6; Revelation 20:11-14).

We believe in the eternal security of all believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, a person who is genuinely born again has everlasting life, which never ends and cannot be taken away. Saved forever, God’s children are kept by the power of God through faith unto eternal salvation and sealed unto the day of redemption.

(John 10:27-39; I Peter 1:5; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:35-39; John 5:24)

We believe Jesus Christ is the founder of the Church, and that Jesus started this church during His early ministry (Matthew 16:18). This church was empowered on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4) and it’s mission is to “go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”. We believe that there has never been a time since inception of the church that there has failed to be a doctrinally pure Bible preaching local church (Eph. 3:21).

We believe that all of the church’s endeavors should be supported by God’s financial plan of tithes and offerings. We further believe that the church is independent from all boards and other governing bodies under the complete guidance of the Scriptures, being led by the Pastor as he is led by the Word of God.

(Matthew 28:18-20; Hebrews 13:7,17)

We believe there are two ordinances Jesus left to the local church: Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The Word of God plainly teaches that Believer’s Baptism is done by immersion only and also by the right authority. Baptism has nothing to do with salvation but is an outward profession of faith in the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Lord’s Supper is done as oft as we do it in remembrance of the breaking of Christ’s body and the shedding of Christ’s blood on the cross.

(Luke 1:11-17; Matthew 3:13-17; John 3:23; Mark 1:9-10; I Corinthians 11:23-30)

We believe in an actual Devil, the old serpent, a liar from the beginning and the Father of lies, who is still working in the world to destroy the souls of men, and that he will be cast, with all his angels and those who will not receive Christ as their Saviour and Lord, into the lake of fire, to be eternally tormented. Further, we believe that the Devil was Lucifer, a created being, the anointed cherub, but because of pride he fell and took one third of the angels of Heaven with him.

(Matthew 4:1-3; Revelation 20:1-3, 10; II Corinthians 4:3, 4; I Peter 5:8; Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:14-17)

We believe in that blessed hope, the personal, pretribulation, premillennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Further, we believe that this will take place in the calling away, or what we refer to as the Rapture. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost in Hell, and the everlasting happiness of the saved in Heaven.

(Acts 1:11; Matthew 24:29-42, 25:31-34; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Revelation 19:11 - 20:15; John 14:1-3)

We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. As ambassadors of Christ we must use all available means to go to the foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us.

(Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15; Luke 24:46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8, II Corinthians 5:20)