STATEMENT OF BELIEF

  • We believe in God. God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • We believe the Bible is God’s inerrant Word and in It's authority in our lives.
  • We believe that Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life, by Him only can a person be saved.
  • We believe that He was born of virgin, lived a perfect life, died for our sins, and arose from the dead.
  • We believe that He makes intercession for us at the right hand of God the Father, He has given believers the gift of the Holy Spirit, and that He is coming again.
  • We believe people were created by God, have sinned against God, and matter to God.
  • We believe that by God’s grace, through faith in Christ and repentance, people can have a relationship with God.
  • We believe that marriage and family is foundational to society and that they are God’s idea. Marriage is a lifelong covenant between God, a man, and a woman.
  • We believe that once you are saved and are a part of God’s family that you cannot lose your salvation, that a born again believer is eternally secure.
  • We believe that all Christians are gifted by the Holy Spirit and called to serve God and others for His glory.
  • We believe that the church is made up of born-again believers. The church exists as the Body of Christ at large and operates through the local church. Gaylesville First Baptist Church is an independent/autonomous church that freely cooperates with The Southern Baptist Convention and other partnerships.
  • The two ordinances of the church are Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

BELIEVER'S BAPTISM:

The word “baptize” in Greek literally means “to immerse.” Baptism pictures the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. Baptism does not wash away your sins; that happened the moment you turned from your sins and trusted the Lord Jesus as Savior. It does symbolize your old life before Christ dying and you “rising again” to your new life in Christ.

Romans 6:3-4, "3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

Jesus told us to do this.

Matthew 28:19-20, "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."

LORD'S SUPPER:
 

The Lord's Supper (Communion) is a reminder of the Lord’s death for our sins.

1 Corinthians 11:24 "And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me."

It is a symbol. The bread represents Christ’s body and the cup represents Christ’s blood (1 Corinthians 11:25). It is statement of our faith in the death of Jesus for our sins, His victorious resurrection, and His future return (1 Corinthians 11:26).

Believers are invited to participate in The Lord’s Supper (Mark 14:22-26).

  • We believe that we should keep our focus on the Great Commission and be willing to sacrifice in whatever way so that people may hear the good news of Jesus Christ.
  • We believe that people will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation.

The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 serves as a summary statement of faith for Gaylesville First Baptist Church.