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1. We believe that the
Bible, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, is the infallible
Word of God. It is divine revelation: the original writings (word)
were verbally inspired and preserved by the Holy Spirit as He inbreathed
holy men of old (II Timothy 3:16; II Peter 1:21). Baptist Pioneer
Mission uses only the King James Version in English. 2.
We believe in a Triune God (I John 5:7).
- God the Father, Creator of Heaven and Earth, perfect in holiness,
infinite in wisdom, rich in grace, supreme in love, and measureless
in power. We rejoice that He concerns Himself mercifully in the
affairs of all mankind, that He hears and answers prayer, and
that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus
Christ (I Corinthians 8:6).
- God the Son, Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived
of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, sinless in His life,
ever obedient unto the Father, and the only atonement for the
sin of this world by His death through the shedding of His blood
on the cross. We believe that He arose bodily after the third
day, ascended unto Heaven on the fortieth day, and even now is
seated at the Father’s right hand, as our High Priest and
Only Mediator, making intercession for His own. We look for His
personal, visible, premillennial, pretribulational, and imminent
return to the earth according to His promises, which is our Blessed
Hope (John 3:16).
- God the Holy Spirit, a person, co-equal with the Father and
Son, in all His attributes. He was sent by the Lord Jesus Christ
from God the Father to reprove the world of sin, to regenerate
all who receive Christ as personal Lord and Saviour, and to indwell,
guide, and teach them the things of God. He empowers the believer
to live in victory over sin, self, Satan, and the world. He helps
our infirmities and intercedes for us according to the will of
God the Father (John 14:12-26; John 16:13; Ephesians 1:13; 4:30;
II Corinthians 6:19-20).
3. We believe that man was created in the image
of God but because of Adam’s transgression (disobedience)
that the whole human race fell. For this reason, all men are totally
depraved and without Christ, spiritually dead and lost. All men
everywhere are sinners, both by nature and by choice. To die in
this condition is to be damned forever and eternally separated from
God
(Genesis 1-3).
4. We believe in a personal devil (Satan) who
is presumptuous, proud, powerful, wicked, malignant, subtle, deceitful,
religious, and fierce. He was cast out of Heaven and is now prince
and power of the air and this world system. He caused the fall of
man, is his constant adversary, and seeks to beguile, tempt, accuse,
and devour him. He is the archenemy of God, hater of Christ, and
for this he perverts the Scriptures, opposes the work of God, hinders
the Gospel, and works lying miracles (wonders). He has already been
judged and someday will be cast into the lake of fire to be tormented
day and night, forever and forever (Revelation 20:10).
5. We believe that in the Lord Jesus Christ only
is salvation. To obtain this salvation is to repent as a sinner
before God and to have faith in Christ (to receive Him in the heart
by faith). This great salvation is by grace, a free gift, through
the merits of the shed blood of the Son of God. The blood of Jesus
Christ was shed for the sins of all mankind, not merely a selected
few. When one obtains salvation, he can never be lost. This is what
Christ called the new birth, being born again from above by the
Word of God (instrument), and Spirit of God (the Person), (Acts
4:12).
6. We believe that Heaven and Hell are literal
places, prepared of God as the only eternal abodes. All those who
have been saved (born again) shall live eternally with God. All
those without Christ (devoid of spiritual life) shall abide in the
lake of fire forever, eternally separated from God.
7. We believe in The church (the Body of Christ)
who is made up of all blood bought, born again believers from the
public ministry of Christ until His coming again for His own (the
Rapture). Some are already in Heaven. This group has never all been
together at one time; so in this respect, we could say the church
is in prospect. The church will be together for the first time at
the Rapture. We also believe in the local assemblies (or churches).
The Holy Scriptures teach us more concerning the local churches
than the church. These local churches consist of regenerated believers
who have been Scriptually baptized and are banded together for edification,
worship, work and spiritual fellowship, spreading the Gospel to
the ends of the earth, according to the specific teachings of the
New Testament. Christ is the Head of the church.
- We believe that immersion in water in the Name of the Father,
the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the only true Scriptural baptism.
The prerequisite to Scriptural baptism is the new birth.
- We believe that the Lord’s Supper consists of unleavened
bread, and unfermented fruit of the vine, and that they are mere
symbols of His body and of His blood that were broken and poured
out on the cross for our sins. The prerequisites to Scriptural
observance of the Lord’s Supper are the new birth, immersion
in water (baptism), and membership in a local New Testament church.
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are the only ordinances of
the New Testament assemblies and are not for believers apart from
the assemblies.
- Each local church is to be independent and autonomous and free
from political authority of ecclesiastical hierarchy. We believe
in religious liberty, in separation of church and state, and in
Christians being good citizens.
8. We believe in the Bible separation, that is,
to be set apart from the world, sin, self, and Satan, and to be
separated “…unto the praise of His glory” and
the furtherance of the Gospel. We believe that each of us should
be born of the Spirit (Galatians 5:25), walk in the Spirit (Galatians
5:16), be led by the Spirit (Galatians 5:18), and be filled with
the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), that by His power and grace we might
bear the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).
9. We believe that all Christians are to be witnesses
unto the lost for Christ. We believe that all believers have certain
God-given gifts and talents and are stewards for God. Some are called
to preach or to other special ministries. We also believe that all
who have never heard the Gospel are lost and that it is every believer’s
responsibility to help get the Gospel to everybody.
10. We as Fundamentalists do not accept the philosophy,
position, and practice of the National Council of Churches. We oppose
Liberalism, Neo-Orthodoxy and New Evangelicalism. We do not endorse
or co-operate with any organization that is apostate or that places
less than primary emphasis on the Word of God (II Corinthians 6:14-17;
II Thessalonians 3:6).
11. We believe life is a gift from God. We oppose
abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and related practices.
12. While never compromising, all truth must be
bathed in Bible love or it is of no profit! (I Corinthians 13:1-3).
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