MISSION STATEMENT

  1. First and foremost, our desire is to be obedient to the Lord.  We have learned through experience the importance of being sensitive to the leadership of the Holy Ghost.  We want to be ready and willing to fulfill whatever God may want for us to do in his work.
  2. Our desire is to evangelize the lost through the preaching of the Gospel.  We plan on reaching the sinner though evangelistic campaigns, door-to-door visitation, street preaching, tract distributation, Church preaching services, and any other means possible within the guidelines of the word of God, and not through worldly gimmicks.
  3. We recognize not only the need to evangelize the sinner but also to ground and settle the newborn saint with the word of God.  It is our duty to disciple the Christian and to cultvate within them a desire to also win others to the Lord.
  4. There are currently about 40 municipalities in need of a Baptist church.  It is our goal to help plant as many soul-winning Baptist churches wherever the Lord may introduce an open door.
  5. In efforts to establish the local church, we recognize the importance of developing within that church good leadership amongst the people.  We feel that this is an area that many missionaries have failed their people in the past.  Thus, we have a burden to train men for the ministry and to teach woman to support their husbands as they work together in their God-given roles in the home as well as the church.

Dear brother or sister in Christ, if you are reading this, please take a few seconds right now to bow your head and pray for us that God will give us the strength to carry out this great work.  The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.  By our own strength we will fail.  We need the strength of God.  Thus, we need your prayers.

Doctrinal Statement

1.  The Bible

 

  • We stand for the verbal and plenary inspiration, providential preservation, and absolute authority of God's words.
  • We believe that God's pure and perfect words that he has preserved for us can be found today in the King James Bible.  We reject all other modern versions in English outside of the KJV.
  • We believe that the version of God's words in Spanish that God has placed his stamp of approval upon is the Reina Valera Bible.  The Reina Valera is a Textus Receptus based Bible.  Since the original 1602 Valera was produced, there has been several revisions of this Spanish Bible. Unfortunately, the Critical Texts were incorporated in some of these revisions.  The edition of the Reina Valera Bible that we use is the 2004 Reina Valera Gomez revision, aka the RVG.  The RVG is an edition of the Spanish Bible of which all corruption from the Alexandrian Critical Texts has been removed.  Consequently, the RVG is in conformity to the Received Texts and is parallel to the KJV.

2.  The Godhead

 

We believe in one true God existing in three persons:  God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.  I Jn. 5:7

3.  Jesus Christ

 

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is God manifested in the flesh who was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died for the sins of the world, resurrected bodily from the grave on the third day, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven.  I Tim. 3:16

4.  Salvation 

  • We believe that salvation is by grace through faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ without any mixture of works.  Eph. 2:8-10, Rom. 3.25, Rom. 5:9

  • We also believe that the evidence of true salvation is a changed life.  II Cor. 5:17

  • We believe that once a person is saved they will always be saved and is eternally secure in Christ.  Eph. 4:30

5.  The Church 

 

  • We believe that the church as mentioned in Eph. 5:23-32 is the same as the body of Christ as mentioned in I Cor. 12:12-14 and that it embodies all born again believers. 

  • We believe the Local Church is a physical organization in that it is an assembly of born again believers in a particular region that gather together to worship God and is autonomous (self-governing) in nature.

  • We believe the Body of Christ is a spiritual organism in that it is one body and that assemblies of believers scattered throughout the world represent that one Body as a whole in their respective locations. 

  • Although we make no apologies for being a Baptist, as we believe the Baptists continue the tradition of God’s church throughout the ages that have stood for the word of God and have never been a part of the church of Rome, we do not believe that only Baptists make up the Bride of Christ, but that Christ’s bride includes all born again, blood-washed believers no matter what their denomination is.  We are not a Baptist Briders.

6.  Ordinances of the Church 

 

  • We believe that the only two ordinances that God gave the church are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

  • We believe that the proper method of Baptism is by immersion as it is a picture of the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.  Rom. 6:3-6

  • We believe in partaking in the Lord’s Supper by the occasional partaking of the bread and cup by the believer as a memorial of the broken body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I Cor. 11:20-34

7.  The Great Commission & Soul Winning 

 

We believe that every Christian is obligated to fulfill the Great Commission of Mark 16 and Mat. 28.  Every Christian should be actively involved in reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ through their personal and vocal witness, their personal testimony amongst their peers, and also by prayerfully and financially supporting Missionaries who take the Gospel to parts of this world that they cannot personally reach themselves.

8.  Separation 

 

  • We believe in the necessity of holiness and separation from the fashions, philosophies, and ungodly forms of entertainment in this world.  II Cor. 7:1

  • We believe a Christian should dress modestly and in such a way that a distinction is made between the attire of a man and a woman.  Deut. 22:5

  • We believe in Ecclesiastical separation.  We are Fundamentalists and Independent Baptists and as such we do not believe in being bound to any type of Association that undermines the local church.  Nor do we believe in fellowshipping with any movement or organization that is unscriptural in doctrine and ecumenical such as the World Council of Churches, the Charismatic Movement, etc.  II Cor. 6:14-18 

9.  Calvinism 

  • We reject the 5-Point theological system of Calvinism (known as TULIP) as heresy.

  • Total Depravity- Although we believe that unregenerate man is depraved in his Adamic nature and is “dead in trespasses and sin”, we do not believe he is depraved in his will and is thus morally unable of their freewill to choose God and put faith in him as the Calvinists teach. 

  • Unconditional Election- Election is according to foreknowledge (I Pet. 1:2).  Therefore we believe God elected those who he foreknew would receive him and thus prepared ahead of time by predestinating them “to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Rom. 8:29-30).  The fatalistic idea that God elected for some to be saved and others to be damned before the foundation of the world is heresy.

  • Limited Atonement- We believe that nothing can be more offensive to a benevolent God and his Son than to insist that Christ didn’t really die for everyone although the scriptures plainly state otherwise (I Tim. 2:6, I Jn. 2:2). 

  • Irresistible Grace- To say that God’s grace is irresistible is false doctrine because why would Paul beseech the Corinthians to “receive not the grace of God in vain” if that grace couldn’t be rejected?  (II Cor. 6:1-2) 

  • Preservation of the Saints- Some would say that what the Calvinist teach here is the equivalent of what we as Baptist teach as Eternal Security.  But I disagree.  The whole Calvinistic system of Soteriology is fatalistic in it’s means as well as it’s results.  We teach that Eternal Security is a result of those who have chosen to trust Christ and that being “sealed unto the day of redemption“ is consequential to regeneration.  Calvinists teach that one must be regenerated before they can choose Christ and that this irresistible work of grace is forced upon the elect as his fate has already been decided.  Fatalism is what separates what we teach as Eternal Security and what Calvinists teach as Preservation of the Saints.

10.  The Second Coming of Christ

We believe in the Pre-millineal, Pre-tribulational, personal, and imminent return of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I Thes. 4:13-18

***  If  you have any questions about anything on this statement or perhaps anything that we might have failed to mention, please feel free to contact us at any time.