IMPORTANT: We are now meeting in the
East Runton Methodist Church building (Post Code NR27 9NZ). Sunday service time is 10:30
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Cromer Baptist Church is a Biblical evangelical church. This means that we accept the full and final authority of the Bible as the basis for all we believe.
In particular, we believe that in the Bible God has revealed everything we need to know about God and our relationship with Him. So, in accordance with the Bible we believe that:
1. The inspiration, inerrancy and infallibility of God's word, the Bible, as originally
given. The
Holy Scripture is both vital and clear, and all Christians must submit
to its supreme
authority and sufficiency, both individually and corporately, in
every matter of belief and
conduct.
2. The existence of one eternal and immutable God, the Holy Trinity, Creator and
Lord of the
universe who, in the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
– three Persons who
are the same in substance, and equal in power and glory –
governs all things according to
his will, and is accomplishing his purposes in
the world and in the church.
3. The inherent value of all human beings, made by God in his own image, and their
sinfulness
and guilt since the fall of Adam. This has rendered them subject to God's wrath
and
condemnation, and has resulted in their alienation from him, from one another and
from
his creation.
4. The essential, absolute and eternal deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; his conception
by Mary
of the Holy Spirit; his virgin birth; his real but sinless humanity;
his voluntary humiliation
and obedience, culminating in his death as a sacrifice
for sin; his bodily resurrection from
the dead on the third day; his ascension
into heaven; his continuing ministry as Prophet,
Priest and King; and his coming
again in power and glory.
5. Salvation from the guilt, penalty and all consequences of sin solely through
the work of
Jesus Christ – his perfect obedience, penal substitutionary death,
bodily resurrection and
exaltation as Lord. He alone is truly God and truly man,
and therefore the only mediator
between God and humanity, uniquely able to save
completely those who come to God
through him. There is salvation through no other
person, creed, process or power.
6. The justification of sinners entirely through the imputation of Christ’s righteousness to them and of the guilt and penalty of their sin to him. It is appropriated by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
7. The necessity and sufficiency of the work of the Holy Spirit for the individual's
new birth to
repentance and faith, union with Christ and growth to maturity,
and for the church's
continuous renewal in truth, unity, wisdom, faith, holiness,
love, power and mission.
8. The universal church, the body of which Christ is the head, to which all God's
people
belong. Its existence reveals God's ultimate purpose to bring everything
together under
Christ. It is made visible both in local congregations and in
the wider communion of those
who profess the true faith. It comprises a people
called to declare the praise of the God
who saved them, to contend for the faith
once delivered to the saints, and to proclaim the gracious offer of salvation
to those who are lost.
9. The unity of the body of Christ, as expressed within and between local churches
by mutual love, care, encouragement and corporate action. True fellowship between
churches exists only where they are faithful to the apostolic gospel.
10. The personal and visible return in glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to raise the dead and bring salvation and judgement to final completion. He will grant eternal life to those who have believed the gospel, and consign those who have not to everlasting punishment in hell. God will then fully establish his kingdom in new heavens and a new earth, from which evil and evildoers, suffering and death will be excluded, and in which he will be glorified forever.