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New Hope Missionary Baptist Church
What we believe
We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the
Bible is the
all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.
( Psalm 119:160, 11Timothy 3:16-17)
We believe that God has preserved His Holy Word, as He
promised He would do, down through the
ages. We believe that the King James Version is the only
correct and trusted translation that God
had His hand upon.
(Matt. 24:35, Mark
13:31, Luke 21:33)
We believe in the
personal triune God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, equal in Divine Perfection.
(Matt:28:29)
We believe in the Genesis account of Creation.
(Gen. 1, 2)
We believe that Satan is the fallen angel, the
archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world,
and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.
( Isaiah 14:12-15, Ezekiel 28: 11-19, Matt. 25: 41,
11 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 6:10-!7, Rev. 20:10)
We believe in the virgin birth and sinless
humanity of Jesus Christ. ( Matt. 1: 18-20, 11 Corinthians
5:21,
1Peter 2:22)
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.
( John 10:30, John 1: 1-14, 11 Corinthians 5:19)
We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine
Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches.
( Luke 24:29, John
14:16-17, Acts 1: 4,5,8; Acts 2:1-4)
We believe that miraculous spiritual
gifts, except faith, hope, and love, were done away when Bible
was completed. (1
Corinthians 12-14)
We believe that man was created in the
image of God and lived in innocence until he fell by voluntary
transgression from his sinless state, the result
being that all mankind are sinners. ( Genesis 1:16,3:6-24,
Romans 5:12,19)
We believe that the suffering and death of
Jesus Christ substitution for all mankind and effectual
only to those who believe.
( Isaiah 53:6, Hebrews 2:9, 1Peter 2:24,3:18, 11 Peter
3:9, 1John 2:2)
We believe in the bodily resurrection and
ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of
His saints.
( Matt. 28:1-7, Acts
1:9-11, 1 Corinthians 15:42-58, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
We believe in the premillennial, personal
bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age.
This event will include the resurrection
of the righteous, and the Millennium will be followed by the
resurrection of the unrighteous unto
eternal punishment in the lake of fire. (John 14:1-6,
1Thess. 4:13-18,
11Thess. 2:8, Revelations 20:4-6,11-15, 21:8)
We believe that the depraved alien sinner
is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the
requisites to regeneration are repentance
toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Luke
12:3-5,
John 3:16,18, Acts 20:21, Romans 6:23, Ephesians
2:8-9) and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners,
regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells
every believer. ( John 3:6,16:8-9, Romans 8:9-11, 1
Corinthians
6:19-20, Ephesians 4:30, Titus 3:5)
We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ
for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish.
(John 3:36,5:24,
10:27-30, Romans 8:35-39, Hebrews 10:39, 1 Peter 1:5)
We believe
that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the
disobedient, and He rewards
the obedient. (Matt. 16:27,
25:14-23, John 1:12, Hebrews 12:5-11, 11John 8, revelations 22:12)
We believe that Jesus Christ established
His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always
a local, visible assembly of scripturally
baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the
Great Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ. Each
church is an independent, self governing body, and no
other ecclesiastical body may exercise
authority over it. we believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great
Commission to the New Testament churches only,
and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches.
(Matt 4:18-22,
16:18, 28:19-20, Mark 1:14-20, John 1: 35-51, Ephesians 3:21)
We believe that there are two pictorial
ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.
Scriptural baptism is the immersion of
penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a
New Testament church in the name of the Father,
Son and Holy Spirit. The Lord's Supper is a memorial
ordinance, restricted to the members of the church
observing the ordinance. ( Matt. 28:19-20, Acts
8:12,38,
Romans 6:4, 1 Corinthians 5:11-13, 11;1,2:17-20,26)
We believe that there are two divinely appointed
offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by
men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus
1:1-9 and 1 Timothy 3: 1-13.
We believe that all associations, fellowships, and
committees are, and properly should be, servants of,
and under control of the churches.
(matt. 20:25-28)
We believe in complete separation of church and
state, (Matt. 22:21) and affirm our belief in civil
obedience unless the laws regulations of civil
government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures. ( Romans
13:1-7, 1Peter 2:13-15)
We believe that the church has the authority to
withdraw fellowship, and dismiss any member that
walketh disorderly.
(11Thess. 3:6, 1Cor. 5:9-13)
We believe that there will be a marriage between
Jesus Christ and the faithful New Testament church
at His coming, and His bride will sit and rule with Him
for eternity. (John 3:29, Rev 19: 7-8, Eph. 5:27
1Cor6;2-3, Rev. 2:26,3:21).