The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man.
There is one and only one living and true God.
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, 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 baptized believers, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.
The above statments have been taken from the Southern Baptist Covention's Baptist, Faith, and Message Statment 2000. To read the whole Baptist, Faith, and Message 2000, please follow this link to the 2000 Statment. www.sbc.net/bfm/bfm2000.asp Main Street Baptist Church is a member of, and subscribes to the faith statment of the Southern Baptist Convention.
