WHAT WE BELIEVE

Mt. Hebron East is a Southern Baptist Church

Therefore we submit to and wholly affirm the Southern Baptist Faith and Message 2000. The summary found on this page represents the highlights of our confession. For a detailed, point-by-point look at our doctrinal positions, you can read the Full Southern Baptist Faith and Message 2000 here.

  • We believe the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.

  • There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

  • Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. By his free choice, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship.

    • Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

    • By His own blood, Jesus obtained eternal redemption for the believer.

    • There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

  • A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. We observe the two New Testament ordinances:

    1. Baptism: The immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

    2. The Lord’s Supper: A symbolic act of obedience whereby members memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

  • God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society.

    • Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime.

    • Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.

  • It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make disciples of all nations. We seek to constantly win the lost to Christ by verbal witness undergirded by a Christian lifestyle.