What We Believe
It’s Life Changing!
Though the Bible alone is the Word of God and the only final and infallible rule and guide, Covenant Baptist Church shall operate within the bounds of the following confession of faith, which the Church believes accurately reflects the eternal teaching of God’s Word.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament constitute the fully and verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant in the autographic texts, and the supreme, final revelation of God regarding faith and life.
There is only one God, who exists from eternity in three distinct persons—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
Jesus Christ is God, the second person of the Trinity who became man, begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He exists today as fully human and fully divine. He lived a life of complete perfection, died for our sins providing a substitutionary sacrifice, and rose in His physical body from the dead. He ascended to the Father, and will physically return in the future to bring about the consummation of history.
Man and Woman were created in the image of God. They sinned by willful rebellion against God’s command and thereby incurred not only physical death, but spiritual death, which is separation from God. All of humanity, as their progeny, are from the moment of conception created in God’s image, and simultaneously corrupted by the curse of sin brought into the world by our first parents, and that as soon as volitionally able, every human being becomes a willful transgressor of God’s law.
Salvation is the redemption of the whole person, brought about exclusively on the basis of the perfect life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ. Salvation involves the exhibition of personal faith in the Lord Jesus, in response to which God declares the penitent sinner righteous on the basis of Jesus’ own perfection. Salvation continues with the process of sanctification, by which the Holy Spirit conforms us progressively to become more like Jesus. All of this is a work of God alone, by His grace alone, through faith in Christ alone, apart from religious or other works on the part of men and women. Those who have been born-again to new life in this way will persevere to the end, permanently secure in their relationship with God on the basis of Christ alone.
The end of the present age will involve the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved and the conscious, everlasting punishment of the lost.
It is the goal of every disciple to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit.