Posted on 09 August 2008
Wilderness Road Baptist Assembly takes the position of full subscription to the the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith. Full subscription would include biblical doctrines as:
(1) The cessation of the sign or revelatory gifts,
(2) The regulative principle of worship,
(3) The five points of Calvinism,
(4) The five sola’s of the Reformation,
(5) Covenant theology (baptistic),
(6) Believers baptism by immersion,
(7) The Christian Sabbath.
Posted on 09 August 2008
There are at least 7 practical reasons that a church should use a written confession of faith.
- It is an expression of pre-commitment to orthodox historic biblical Christianity.
- It is a guide in times of doctrinal uncertainty or controversy.
- It is a declaration of what is to be expected in the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.
- It promotes the unity of the church by giving a body of core beliefs
- It is an outline of comprehensive systematic Bible study
- It is a standard of doctrinal soundness in selection of teachers and elders.
- It is instructive in church order and discipline
Posted on 19 July 2008
1. We are totally unable to save ourselves. We can come to Christ only by the initiating and enabling grace of God.
2. Anyone who truly comes to Christ in repentance and faith He will in no wise cast out. Yet, salvation is only by God’s Divine choice and is not based on any human merit or foreseen faith.
3. The atoning work of Christ is not limited by national boundaries, ethnic origins or languages. Yet, it is applied only to that distinct and particular people whom He calls out from among every people group in the world.
4. The Spirit of God works effectively in the hearts of those whom God calls and results in genuine repentance and true saving faith in Christ. Yet, this is done without doing violence to the individual’s will by liberating them from spiritual bondage and enabling them to freely, willingly and gladly come to Christ for salvation.
5. True believers will persevere in faith unto salvation and are kept by the power of God’s grace and shall never totally nor finally fall away.