Our Beliefs
Do you know Jesus? Have you trusted your life to Him? Find out more by clicking this button.
Our beliefs serve to unify us around a central mission and message.
1 Corinthians 1:10 says,
“Now I urge you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree in what you say, that there be no divisions among you, and that you be united with the same understanding and the same conviction.”
We believe that in essential beliefs, we must have unity.
We believe that in non-essential beliefs, we have liberty.
We believe that in all beliefs, we show charity towards one-another.
Read below to find out more about our core beliefs that unite us as a church family.
Our Core Beliefs
-
We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.
-That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written.
-That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.
-
We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
-
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
-In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory.
-In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, and bodily resurrection.
-In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry, and personal return.
-
We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit.
-Who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment.
-Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.
-Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him.
-
We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God.
-That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state.
-That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement.
-That all men, therefore, are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death.
-
We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God.
-That by the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death.
-That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
-That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord.
We would encourage you to read the Baptist Faith & Message for a more comprehensive presentation of our beliefs.
Our Mission
“We exist to reach people with the gospel and lead them to be devoted followers of Jesus Christ.”
Our Vision
“First Denham is called by God to be a regional life-transformation center.”