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Who we are and our beliefs.
We are a Southern Baptist Church
The
Holy Bible
is God's revelation of Himself to man. 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. 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.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. 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, 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.
Salvation
involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered
freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour,
who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for
the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes
regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus
Christ as Lord.
Christian Baptism is the immersion of a believer in
water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's
faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the
believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life,
and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ
Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final resurrection
of the dead. Being a church ordinance, it is prerequisite
to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord's
Supper.
The
Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby
members of the church, through partaking of the bread
and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of
the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
Satements herein are excerpts of the
2000 Baptist Faith and Message
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Church History
New Bethel was established in April 1872 and in the beginning, meetings were held only one time a month, on the Saturday preceding the fourth Sunday of the month.
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Past to the Future
New Bethel is a church with deep roots and an appreciation of its past. It is also actively involved in the needs of the present with focus on the future. The strides of today will make a difference for tomorrow.
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