What We Believe

  • We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired and inerrant in its original manuscripts. We also believe that it has been preserved by God through its verbal, plenary inspiration, making it a divinely authoritative standard for every life and every age.

  • We believe the Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit - and that these three are one God.

  • We believe God is the absolute and sole creator of the universe, and that creation was a divine act, not through an evolutionary process.

  • We believe God, by His sovereign choice and out of love for men, sent Christ into the world to save sinners.

  • We believe Jesus Christ in the flesh is both God and man, that He was born of a virgin and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and wrought mighty works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels, that He was crucified, died as a penalty for our sins and was raised from the dead bodily on the third day.  Later He ascended to the Father's right hand where He is the head of the church and intercedes for believers, and from whence He is coming again personally, bodily, and visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom.

  • We believe that in His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.  Men are saved and justified on the simple and single ground of the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

  • We believe such salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature, and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works, baptism, church membership - or man's effort - and is of pure grace.

  • We believe a true believer is eternally secure and cannot lose his salvation, but sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the loving discipline of his Heavenly Father.

  • We believe all who receive Christ become joint heirs with Christ; at death, their spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness; and at the rapture, their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of His glory and dwell forever in His divine presence.

  • We believe every Christian’s goal is to grow in spiritual maturity through obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

  • We believe the Holy Spirit is a person, is God, and possesses all the divine attributes.  He indwells all believers, baptizes and seals them at the moment of their salvation, and fills them in response to confession of sin and yielded life.

Ways To Join Our Fellowship As A Member

PROFESSION OF FAITH AND BAPTISM
If you receive Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord and follow Him in baptism by immersion, we welcome you into our fellowship.


BY LETTER
As a Baptist whose church membership is elsewhere, we will be pleased to welcome you into our church family should God direct you here.  We will happily take care of the appropriate details by transferring your membership.

BY BAPTISM FROM ANOTHER DENOMINATION
If you know in your heart that you are saved and want to become a member of the First Baptist Church of Stuart, we invite you to join by baptism.  This gives testimony of your salvation and your obedience to His direction.

BY STATEMENT
In the event church membership records are not available for a transfer of membership, or if you were not a once Baptist church member, but are presently a member of another denomination, we will accept you upon your statement of these conditions.