What We Believe at Millington First Baptist
Welcome to Millington FBC, where faith meets family and community, and where every individual has an opportunity to grow in their faith.
The Holy Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men but was divinely inspired by God and 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. It reveals the principles by which God judges us, and therefore is, and will remain to the end the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be tried.
Deuteronomy 4:1-2; Psalm 119:11,89,105; Isaiah 40:8; Romans 15:4; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He inspired holy men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination He enables men to understand truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, He cultivates Christian character. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Genesis 1:2; Isaiah 61:1-3; Matthew 28:19; John 14:16-17,26; 15:26; 16:7-14; Acts 1:8; Romans 8:9-11,14-16,26-27; 1 Corinthians 2:10-14; 3:16; 12:3-11,13; Ephesians 1:13-14; 4:30; 5:18; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 4:13; 5:6-7; Revelation 22:17.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
John 3:16; Romans 3:23-25; 5:8-10; 6:23; 10:9-10,13; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 1:7; Revelation 3:20; 21:1-22:5.
The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ through democratic processes. In such a congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
Matthew 16:15-19; 18:15-20; Acts 2:41-42,47; 6:3-6; 1 Peter 5:1-4; Revelation 2-3.
Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. According to His promise, Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth; the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell, the place of everlasting punishment. The righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28,35-58; 2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-5:11; Hebrews 9:27-28; Revelation 20:1-22:13.
Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual; all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians are privileged to serve Him with their time, talents, and material possessions. It is every Christian’s honor to contribute their means cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer’s cause on earth.
Genesis 14:20; Leviticus 27:30-32; Malachi 3:8-12; Matthew 23:23; Acts 2:44-47; 5:1-11; 20:35; 1 Corinthians 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 9:6-8
God the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus.
Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 19:1-3; Jeremiah 10:10; Matthew 28:19; Mark 1:9-11; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Timothy 1:17; Hebrews 11:6
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Though in the flesh, He was sinless. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the Person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers as the living and ever present Lord.
Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 53:1-12; John 1:1-18,29; Romans 5:6-21; 2 Corinthians 5:19-21; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Hebrews 1:1-3; 9:12-15,24-28; 1 Peter 2:21-25; 4:14-15; Revelation 1:13-16;
Man
God created human beings male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin but man chose to sin and thus brought sin into the human race. Ever since, man has had need of a payment for sin and that payment was ultimately provided by Jesus, the Son 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.
Genesis 1:26-30; 2:5,7,18-22; 3; 9:6; Psalms 1; 8:3-6; 32:1-5; 51:5; Jeremiah 17:5; Matthew 16:26; Acts 17:26-31; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; 5:6, 6:6; 7:14-25; 8:14-18,29; 1 Corinthians 1:21-31; 15:19,21-22; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22.
Baptism & the Lord’s Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Baptism is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, 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 memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
Matthew 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Luke 3:21-22; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; 20:7; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 10:16,21; 11:23-29
Evangelism and Missions
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. The new birth of man’s spirit by God’s Holy Spirit means the birth of love for others. Missionary effort on the part of all rests thus upon a spiritual necessity of the regenerate life, and is expressly and repeatedly commanded in the teachings of Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded the preaching of the gospel to all nations. It is the duty of every child of God to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle, and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.
Isaiah 6:1-8; Matthew 9:37-38; 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; 8:26-40; Romans 10:9-10; 10:13-17
To learn more, please see the Baptist Faith & Message 2000.
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