What We Believe

Gateway Baptist Church is a local, autonomous, Bible-believing congregation, preaching, teaching and practicing the Biblical principles of a New Testament Church as taught in the word of God.

 

The Bible

We believe the absolute, sole, authoritative rule for faith and practice is the perfect, preserved word of God, which, for English speaking people, is the AV 1611, King James Bible (Ps. 12:6-7).

 

Jesus Christ

We believe in the Deity of Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His vicarious death for sinners, his literal bodily resurrection and His literal bodily return to this earth to reign for a thousand years (I Tim. 3:16).

 

Good Works

We believe that any religious person who depends upon sacraments, or the golden rule, or the church, or the ten commandments to justify him before God will be condemned at the White Throne Judgment and banished to the Lake of Fire for trusting their righteousness instead of Jesus Christ's righteousness (Romans 4:5).

 

Baptism

We believe that water baptism for the regenerated believer is immersion in water in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost (Matt. 28:19).

 

Church Ordinances

Baptism and the Lord's Supper constitute the only two scriptural ordinances for the church, but neither has any saving power (Luke 22:19).

 

Eternal Security

We believe in the eternal security of the believer as part of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 10:28).

 

Separation

We believe that Christians should attempt to live godly lives and separate themselves as much as possible from the world and its lust and entanglements. That they should encourage and minister to one another and give liberally to the support of any Bible-believing ministry that is actively winning people to Jesus Christ (Romans 12:1).
 

 

Church and State

We believe in absolute separation of church and state and that the state has no business dictating to any local church how they should conduct their services, ministries, business, or property matters (Acts 5:29).

 

Second Coming of Jesus Christ

We believe in the imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ to this earth to catch out His "bride" before Daniel's Seventieth Week (the "Time of Jacob's Troubles") takes place. That He will return after the "Marriage of the Lamb" to reign over the "House of Jacob" at Jerusalem on the "Throne of David" (John 14:3)