INDEPENDENT BAPTIST

• ​​Grace Baptist Church is a "traditional" Independent Baptist church. This means that we are not part of the Southern Baptist Convention, or any other denominational association. The Word of God is our final authority and the Lord Jesus Christ the Head of our church.
  
• We identify as Baptists because this quickly summarizes our core doctrinal beliefs.
  
  • ​B -The Bible is our final authority
    
  • A -The autonomy of local churches
    
  • P -The priesthood of believers
    
  • T -The two ordinances (Baptism and the Lord's Supper)
    
  • I -Individual soul liberty
    
  • S -Separation to God and from the world
    
  • T -The two offices of the church (pastor and deacon)
    
  • ​S -Salvation through repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
    

​OUR PURPOSE

• With the Authorized King James Bible as our authority and the Holy Spirit as our guide, the family of God at Grace Baptist Church exists to fulfill the purpose of the church, as established by Jesus Christ, to change lives by living the Great Commandment (Mark 12:30) and fulfilling the Great Commission (Mark 16:15). We believe this will grow a Great Church for our Great God!
  

THE BIBLE

• We believe in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. The Masoretic Text of the Old Testament and the Received Text of the New Testament (Textus Receptus) are those texts of the original languages. The King James Version of the Bible is the only English version we accept and use. 
  

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• We believe that the Bible is the final authority on all matters of faith and practice. It reveals God, the fall of man, the way of salvation, and God's plan and purpose in the ages.
  

GOD / JESUS CHRIST

• We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons -- God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, co-eternal, identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections.
  

• We believe in the deity, virgin birth, and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.
  

SALVATION

• We believe that salvation is "by grace" plus nothing and minus nothing.  The conditions to salvation are repentance and faith.
  

• We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Justification is an eternal relationship that can never be broken.
  

CHRISTIAN LIVING

• We believe the Christian life is one of holiness and separation unto God from the world.  We are Independent Baptist by conviction. We believe in the visible, personal, and premillennial return of Jesus Christ.
  

ETERNITY

• We believe in the everlasting conscious blessedness of the saved in heaven and the everlasting conscious punishment of the lost in hell.​

What we believe