What We Believe
STATEMENT OF FAITH
Gateway Baptist Church believes the Bible to be the divinely inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of
God and accepts the Bible to be its final authority on all matters, including those relating to the
faith and practice of both the Church and the members as individuals. This Church believes in
the literal Genesis account of creation, a universal flood, the triune God, the deity of Jesus
Christ, a literal and burning Hell, salvation exclusively by grace through faith in Christ Jesus
apart from works, the eternal security of the believer, the priesthood of every believer, love as the
motive for all true worship and service, holiness and godly separation by all believers, baptism
by immersion of believers only, the local and visible Church, closed communion, and the literal
and premillennial second-coming of Jesus Christ. This Church does not embrace evolution,
secular humanism, all forms of salvation from sin's penalty by works, the Charismatic movement,
all forms of universal Church theology, and any Church to be illegitimate that was founded by
anyone other than Jesus Christ during His personal ministry.
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