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Believe > What We Believe

As a body of born-again, baptized believers in Jesus Christ, the Ironbridge faith family subscribes to the doctrinal statement, The Baptist Faith and Message, as adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention on June 14, 2000.

Highlights of our beliefs include…

We believe…the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be verbally inspired by God, inerrant, infallible, totally trustworthy, and of supreme and final authority in faith and life. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

We believe…that God eternally exists in Three Persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:19-20)

We believe…in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, the Eternal Word manifested in the flesh. We believe that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true Man. (John 1:1, 2, 14, 18 ; 3:16)

We believe that the Lord Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood. We believe that our Lord rose from the dead and ascended to Heaven. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)

We believe…that the Holy Spirit, being the Third Person of the God-head, convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, baptizes, seals and sets believers apart to a holy life. We believe that He is the Teacher of the Word of God, and our Guide for daily life. (John 16:7-14)

We believe…that all who receive by faith, Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and who confess Him before others are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God. We believe in eternal security and everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the eternal conscious punishment of the lost. (Romans 10:9-10)

We believe…that the Church of Jesus Christ is composed solely of those who have been redeemed, regenerated and sealed by the Holy Spirit. We believe that we are called together to worship and serve Christ until He returns. The two offices of the church are: Pastors and Deacons. The two ordinances of the church are Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, to be observed until He comes. (Matthew 28:19-20 ; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26)

We believe…in our Lord’s personal, imminent and premillennial return for His redeemed ones followed by His coming in glory to judge the rebellious and to establish His millennial reign on earth. (1 John 14:1-3 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)