What We Believe

At North Brewton Baptist Church, we hold to the Statement of Faith called the “Baptist Faith and Message” that was adopted in 2000. Below you will find a few highlights of key doctrines based on this statement of faith, but a full copy of this document can be found by clicking here.

The Scriptures: The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end of the world, the true center of Christian union, and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation. 

Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 17:19; Psalms 19:7-10; 119:11,105; Isaiah40:8; Matthew 5:17-18; Luke 21:33; 24:44-46; John 16:13-15; Acts 2:16ff.; Romans 15:4; 16:25-26; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12.

God: There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Genesis 1:1; Genesis 1:2; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalms 2:7ff.; Isaiah 64:8; John 4:24; 5:26; Ephesians 4:6; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53:1-12; Matthew 1:18-23; 3:17; John 1:1-18,29; Luke 1:35; 4:1,18-19; 11:13; 12:12; 24:49; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 1:10; 22:17.

Humanity: Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Genesis 1:26-30; 2:5,7,18-22; 3; 9:6; Isaiah 6:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; 5:6,12,19; 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18,29; 1 Corinthians 1:21-31; 15:19,21-22; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22; 3:9-11.

Salvation: Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

Genesis 3:15; Exodus 3:14-17; 6:2-8; Matthew 1:21; 4:17; 27:22-28:6; John 1:11-14,29; 3:3-21,36; 5:24; 10:9,28-29; 17:17; Acts 2:21; 4:12; 15:11; 16:30-31;  20:32; Romans 1:16-18; 3:23-25; 5:8-10; 8:1-18,29-39; 10:9-10,13; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-22; 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24; James 2:14-26; 1 John 1:6-2:11; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5.

The Kingdom: The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over people who willfully acknowledge Him as King. Particularly the Kingdom is the realm of salvation into which people enter by trustful, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians ought to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God's will be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.

Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 9:6-7; Jeremiah 23:5-6; Matthew 3:2; 4:8-10,23; 25:31-46; 26:29; Luke 4:43; 12:31-32; 17:20-21; 23:42; John 3:3; 18:36; Acts 1:6-7; 17:22-31; Romans 5:17; 8:19; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 11:10,16; 12:28; 1 Peter 2:4-10; 4:13; Revelation 1:6,9; 5:10; 11:15; 21-22.