Doctrinal Statement
The Bible, inspired, inerrant, and authoritative is our only certain and infallible rule of saving knowledge, faith, and obedience. We acknowledge the Word of God to be the supreme authority in all matters of faith, morals, and order. We are a church that is committed to the historical heritage of Southern Baptists. We regard The Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 as an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of the Word of God, and a good doctrinal standard. Confessions are to be assistance in controversy, a confirmation in faith, and a means of edification in righteousness.
Historically, the 1689 Confession has played a key role in the formation of Baptist churches and associations throughout their history. The Baptists in America around Philadelphia adopted this confession, affirming it as the Philadelphia Confession of Faith in 1742, the confession we find most closely to represent what we believe. This document also became the cornerstone of many Baptist groups elsewhere in America, and was instrumental in the founding of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1845.
A quote from the Philadelphia Confession provides a summation of our dependence upon God’s Word.
"The supreme judge by which all controversies of religion are to be determined, and all decrees of councils, opinions of ancient writers, doctrines of men and private spirits, are to be examined, and in whose sentence we are to rest, can be no other but the Holy Scripture delivered by the Spirit, into which Scripture so delivered, our faith is finally resolved." (Chapter 1, Paragraph 10)
Our doctrinal position points to the heart of the Christian faith, but it also points to some of our distinctive as a particular body of believers. Some Christians may certainly differ with some of what is set forth. Such Christians are nevertheless welcome to worship the Lord together with us. Our basis for unity and communion is a biblical confession of the lordship of Jesus Christ, and the presence of a lifestyle that will bring glory to God and obedience to His written word.