The Gospel

Do you deserve the death penalty? Most of us would say, "No." However, the Bible says that the wages of sin is death. A wage is something that we've earned. So if you have ever told a lie, stolen something, looked with lust, or even been disobedient to your parents, the Bible calls that sin, and according to God's law, we have earned the death penalty. 

However, although we deserve the death penalty, the Bible also tells us that God loves us. The story of Scripture is that although we have broken God's law, that God himself has paid our fine in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ lived the life that we could not live and took the punishment that we deserved on the cross. He was buried, and he rose again on the third day. What the bible calls us to do is to repent and believe (turn from trusting in ourselves and trust alone in Jesus Christ). 

Creeds and Confessions

As Reformed Baptists, we hold to the catholic faith - catholic meaning the universal church. We are a part of the Protestant Reformation. We align with the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith and the four ecumenical creeds: The Nicene Creed, The Apostles' Creed, The Chalcedonian Definition, and the Athanasian Creed. These Creeds and the Confession work as guards or bumpers for interpreting Scripture. 

The full text of the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith can be found here.