Dereham Baptist Church Beliefs
A Baptist Church is a community of believers who hold common convictions about the practice of their beliefs. These are:
- The Bible
- Forgiveness and New Life
- The trinity
- The Holy Spirit
- Church Membership
- Government of a Baptist Church
- The Church
Government of a Baptist Church
The life of our Church is centred around the things we do as part of the body of Christ. We worship together, the Word is preached to an assembled gathering, we baptise new believers as part of a service of worship and we share the Lord's Supper or Communion together.
We take seriously the Bible's teaching that we should grow together in fellowship, having a special love and concern for fellow-believers and that we should reach out to those who have not committed themselves to Christ both by service and by witnessing to what God has done for us.
Within our fellowship, all the members have equal responsibility for all these things because we are all of equal standing in Jesus Christ. As a church we shall one day have to give an account to Him, of how we have worked together to do His will.
Within the life if the church it is recognised that God's will is perfect and that sometimes He surprises us with the people He chooses and the things He allows us to do and not to do. In order not to miss God's promptings we must be prepared to listen to one another with love, patience and respect and then to test everything against the Bible.
Determining the will of God means that each person must submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit, so that when we vote the result is in line with God's will and not borne of a struggle between various self-interested parties.
The life of our Church is centred around the things we do as part of the body of Christ. We worship together, the Word is preached to an assembled gathering, we baptise new believers as part of a service of worship and we share the Lord's Supper or Communion together.
We take seriously the Bible's teaching that we should grow together in fellowship, having a special love and concern for fellow-believers and that we should reach out to those who have not committed themselves to Christ both by service and by witnessing to what God has done for us.
Within our fellowship, all the members have equal responsibility for all these things because we are all of equal standing in Jesus Christ. As a church we shall one day have to give an account to Him, of how we have worked together to do His will.
Within the life if the church it is recognised that God's will is perfect and that sometimes He surprises us with the people He chooses and the things He allows us to do and not to do. In order not to miss God's promptings we must be prepared to listen to one another with love, patience and respect and then to test everything against the Bible.
Determining the will of God means that each person must submit to the leading of the Holy Spirit, so that when we vote the result is in line with God's will and not borne of a struggle between various self-interested parties.