Pittsgrove Baptist Church believes and teaches the following truths, believing them to be the expression of truth as revealed in the Holy Scriptures:

The Scriptures:

We believe the Bible to be the Canonical Scriptures, consisting of thirty-nine books of the Old Testament and twenty-seven of the New Testament; that it is verbally plenarily (to the fullest extent), inspired by the living God in its original writing; and it is the only infallible rule and standard of faith and practice for believers. We also believe in the inspiration of the words as well as the human instruments who wrote them under the power of the Holy Spirit. (II Peter 1:20-21; II Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; John 10:35; Ephesians 6:17; Isaiah 8:20; Psalm 119:105)

The Tri-unity of the Godhead:

We believe that God is Triune: that there are three eternal, co-equal, Divine Persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one God. (Deuteronomy 6:4; Luke 3:21-22; I Peter 1:2; Matthew 28:18-20: II Corinthians 13:14; I John 5:7-8)

The Persons of the Trinity:

a. The Person of God the Father. We believe that God is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and also the Father of all those who believe in and receive His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as Saviour. (Galatians 3:26; John 1:12-13; I John 1:1-3)

b. The Person of Jesus Christ. We believe in the Eternal Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ and that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. (John 1:1-3,14; Luke 1:35; Colossians 1:15-18; Colossians 2:3,9; I Timothy 3:16)

c. The Person of the Holy Spirit. We believe the Holy Spirit to be the third person of the Trinity; that He inspired holy men of God to write the Holy Scriptures. The Lord Jesus Christ declared His office work to convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment; to witness in and through believers in the Lord Jesus Christ; and to lead His
followers into all the Truth of the Word of God. (John 16:7-11; John 14:26; John 15:26-27; John 16:12-15)

Mankind:

We believe man was created by a special act of God, in the image and likeness of God and without sin. Being tempted by Satan, Adam willfully and knowingly rebelled against God’s command, thus effecting the fall of the race. This brought spiritual and physical death upon all mankind. By virtue of Adam’s sin all his descendants possess a sinful nature being alienated from, and a stranger to, God. Being totally depraved, man is unable of himself to remedy his lost condition. (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; Ephesians 2:1-3,12; Isaiah 64:6; Romans 5:12-14)

Salvation:

We believe that the only way to be saved is by grace through faith in the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shed on the Cross of Calvary and in the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We believe that the blood-redeemed saints, truly born-again believers in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Saviour, are saved and kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. (John 3:14-16; John 14:6; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 4:12; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9-10; John 10:27-30; I Peter 1:3-5; I John 5:13)

One Mediator:
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ ascended bodily into Heaven.

a. He is our Advocate.
b. He ever lives to make intercession for us.
c. He is now our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
d. He is the only Mediator between God and man.
e. It is our privilege to read the Scriptures for ourselves and have direct access to God without the mediation of a priest. (Mark 16:19; Luke 24:51; Hebrews 7:17,25; Hebrews 9:24; I John 2:1; Hebrews 8:1; I Timothy 2:5-6)

The True Church:

We believe the True Church, which is the Body and Bride of Christ, began with the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:14). It is the spiritual building of the Holy Spirit and every person, who by faith receives Jesus Christ as personal Saviour, is thereby baptized into this Body by the Holy Spirit who also indwells such believers. (Matthew 16:16-18; Acts 2:1-4,33,47; John 7:39; Ephesians 2:20-22; Colossians 1:18-19; Ephesians 5:31-32; I Corinthians 12:12-13; Romans 8:9-15; I John 2:27; I John 4:13)

The Local Church:

We believe the local church is the expression of the True Church and is to be composed of regenerated (saved) persons and organized for the purpose of fulfilling the great commission of our Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 28:19-20; administers the two Divinely instituted ordinances of Believers’ Baptism by immersion, and the Communion of the Lord’s Table as the memorial of Christ’s death until He returns. (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15-16; Luke 22:19-20; Acts1:8; I Corinthians 11:23-26)

The Return of the Lord Jesus Christ:

a. We believe in the pre-millennial second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ; that His coming is to be in two phases:
1) Coming for His saints.
2) Later coming with His saints in glory to judge the world.

b. We believe in constantly looking for the return of our Saviour, looking for the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

c. We believe in the literality of the seven years’ tribulation, the seventieth week of the Prophecy of Daniel 9:27, and the millennial kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.

d. We believe in the pre-tribulation rapture of the saints. (II Thessalonians 2:1-12; Titus 2:13; Philippians 3:20-21; John 14:3; I Thessalonians 1:9-10; I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-57; Revelation 20:4-6)

The Person of Satan:

We believe that Satan is a person; the author of the fall of man; the cause of sin and disease in the world; and that his doom is eternal punishment in perdition, the Lake of Fire. (Genesis 3:15; John 1:6-7; Revelation 20:2-10; Isaiah 14:12-15)

The Intermediate State:

We believe that all who die in Christ are absent from the body and present with the Lord. All who die out of Christ are in conscious torment in Hades until the Great White Throne Judgment when they will be judged and cast into the Lake of Fire in consciousness forever. (Philippians 1:21-24; II Corinthians 5:1-8; Luke 23:43; Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 20:11-15)

The Final State of the Saved and the Lost:

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust; in the eternal conscious perdition of the lost; and the eternal life, joy and bliss of the saved. (I Corinthians 15:20-24; John 5:28-29; Matthew 25:41,46; Revelation 21:4-7)

To this doctrinal basis, all instructions in the church, in all its departments, and the family shall conform. We believe in the independence of the local church.

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