Valley Baptist Church

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BRIEF STATEMENT OF FAITH

We believe that the Bible was supernaturally given by inspiration of God and that it is the final authority in all matters of faith, doctrine, and practice. We believe that God has supernaturally preserved His inspired Words through the ages, and that the complete cannon of scripture is manifested in the 1611 Authorized Version (King James Bible).

We believe that there is only one true and living God, existing as three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; and that each is the same one true God.

We believe in the Deity, virgin birth, sinless life, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, and physical return of Jesus Christ.

We believe that salvation is “by grace, through faith” plus nothing and minus nothing. The conditions of salvation are repentance and faith.

We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ and that those thus justified are saved forever.

We believe that every saved person should follow the Lord in baptism by immersion and should join and maintain an active membership in a local New Testament Baptist Church.

We believe that the true church is a duly organized local body of saved and baptized believers.

We believe that the ordinances of the New Testament Baptist Church are baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

We believe in the visible, personal, pre-millennial, pre-tribulational, return of Jesus Christ.

We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved and the everlasting conscious punishment of the unsaved.

We believe that the Holy Spirit reproves of sin, converts the repentant, is God’s seal in and upon His children, fills and endues them with power, and uses them for His own Divine purposes.

We believe the so-called charismatic experience (speaking in unknown tongues, and claiming to receive new Divine revelations) is both a doctrinal and practical error and, therefore neither to be sought or practiced.