This group grew out of the English separatist movement and came to be known as the вЂBaptistsвЂ™. A group of people asserted, among other others, that baptism for believers should be the only basis on which the church is founded. These roots go back to England in the 1600вЂ™s, during debates about the reform of the church and the separation between church and state.

To call ourselves вЂBaptistвЂ™, means we stand within an historic tradition whose most obvious distinguishing mark is believers baptism. The two ordinances of the Lord Jesus Christ, namely Baptism and the LordвЂ™s Supper, which are of perpetual obligation: Baptism being the immersion of believers upon the profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and a symbol of the fellowship of the regenerate in His death, burial and resurrection the LordвЂ™s Supper being a memorial, until He comes, of the sacrifice of the body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.The resurrection of the dead, and the final judgment of all people by the Lord Jesus Christ.The necessity, in order to know salvation, of repentance towards God and of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.The immediate work of the Holy Spirit in the regeneration of men and women, in their sanctification, and in their preservation to the heavenly Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.The salvation of men and women from the penal consequences and power of sin through the perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, His atoning death, His resurrection from the dead, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His unchanging priesthood.The fallen, sinful and lost estate of all people.The deity and incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Son of God, the second person of the Holy Trinity.The existence of one God in three persons вЂ“ the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.The divine inspiration and supreme authority of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments.

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