About Us

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1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative Word of God.  All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. 11 Timothy 3:16-17 (Also 11 Peter 1:19-21) We are Baptists.  We adhere to the historic Baptist doctrine.

 

2. We believe that both the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, revealing the three persons of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. . Isaiah 45:5 (Also Matthew 28:19; Acts 5:3-4: Colossians 2:9)

 

3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His teachings, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.  In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. John 1:1,14 (Also Acts 1:11, Philippians 2:6-11)

 

4. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit: to convict and regenerate the lost and to indwell the Christian, enabling him to live a godly life. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 14: 16-17 (also John 6:8,13)

 

5. We believe that salvation for lost and sinful man comes only by God’s grace through faith in the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, His burial and His resurrection from the grave thereby conquering death and providing eternal life for believers.  For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:7-9 (also Romans 3:21-28, Titus 3:5-7, Acts 16:31)

 

6. We believe in the resurrection from the dead of both the saved and the lost: the saved unto the resurrection of life with Christ, and the lost unto the resurrection of eternal judgment apart from Christ.  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.  John 5:28-29  (also  Matthew25:41-46, Revelation 21:1-8

 

7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ through the practice of consistent worship in a  local church.  And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  (also Ephesians 5:23-32, 1 Corinthians 12:12-27)

 

8. We believe that God has ordained marriage between a man and a woman as our basic unit of social order. According to scripture, marriage is defined only with one meaning: The uniting of one man and one woman in a single, exclusive union, as delineated in God’s word, the Bible. (Genesis 2:18-25).We believe that God intends the gift of sexual intimacy to only occur between a man and woman who are married to each other. (1 Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5 and Hebrews 13:4) We believe that God’s command is that there be no sexual intimacy outside of or apart from marriage between man and a woman.

 

9. We believe God wonderfully foreordained and immutably created each person as either male or female in conformity with their biological sex. These two distinct yet complimentary genders together reflect the true image and nature of God.  (Genesis 1:26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over ever creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 

Our Statement of Faith is not exhaustive of all of our beliefs. The Bible, as the inspired and infallible Word of God, speaks with absolute authority regarding the proper conduct of mankind and is the unchanging foundation for all belief and behavior. The pastors of New Hope Baptist Church and the Administrator of New Hope Christian Academy holds the final authority on biblical meaning and application with regard to faith, doctrine, policy, practice, and discipline.