Placing our faith wholly in the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation, believing in the teachings and
practices of the Baptist and those great distinctive principles for which they have ever stood, namely:
  1. The preeminence of Jesus Christ as our divine Lord Saviour and Master.

  2. The supreme authority of the Bible and its sufficiency as the word of
    God and as our only rule of faith and practice.

  3. The right of private interpretation and the competency of the individual
     soul in direct approach to God.

  4. The absolute separation of church and state.

  5. A regenerate church membership.

  6. The beautiful, symbolic ordinance of believer's Baptism in obedience to
     the command of Christ.

  7. The commemorative ordinance of communion in obedience and memory
     of Christ's passion and victory.

  8. The complete independence to the local church and its interdependence in
    associated fellowship with other churches of like faith and practice.

  9. The solemn obligation of majority rule, guaranteeing equal rights to all and
    special privilege to none.

  10. The spiritual unity of all believers, for which the Master so earnestly prayed.

  11. A world-wide program of missionary fervor and evangelism in obedience to the final
    command of Jesus - "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
    them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching
    them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you
     always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20).

Preamble
A Church Where Jesus Christ is Lord,
& Friendship is More Than a Word.
Bethany Baptist Church