These are the central truths of the Christian faith that Freedom confesses with believers across the centuries.
The Bible is God's written Word. Because God is truthful, Scripture is true, trustworthy, and without error in all that it teaches. It is sufficient to reveal what we must know for salvation and faithful obedience, and it is the final authority for the faith and life of the church. We receive the Old and New Testaments as God's Word and seek to understand every part in light of the whole.
There is one true and living God who eternally exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The three persons are distinct, yet each is fully and equally God. God created everything from nothing and rules all things with wisdom, holiness, power, and goodness.
God made every human being in His image, male and female, with equal dignity and worth. We were created to know Him, worship Him, and live under His good rule.
Our first parents rebelled against God, and sin and death entered the world. Every person is now born with a sinful nature and willingly sins against God. Sin leaves us guilty before Him, corrupts every part of us, and places us under His just judgment. We cannot reconcile ourselves to God through sincerity, morality, religion, or good works. We need God to save us.
The eternal Son of God became truly human while remaining truly God. Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and lived in perfect obedience to His Father. On the cross He gave Himself as a substitute for sinners and bore the judgment they deserved. He was buried, rose bodily on the third day, ascended to heaven, and now reigns at the Father's right hand.
Jesus is the only mediator between God and humanity. His once-for-all work is sufficient to save everyone who comes to God through Him.
Salvation is God's gift from beginning to end. The Holy Spirit gives new life, brings sinners to repentance and faith, and unites believers to Christ. God forgives and justifies everyone who trusts in Jesus, counting Christ's righteousness as theirs. He adopts them as His children and begins making them holy.
Good works do not earn salvation. They are the fruit of grace in those God has saved. Our assurance rests in Christ's finished work and promises, and God preserves His people in faith to the end. For a fuller explanation, read the gospel.
The Holy Spirit lives in every believer, gives gifts for service, produces holiness, and strengthens the church through God's Word, prayer, the ordinances, and fellowship. The church is the people Christ has redeemed from every nation. Local churches gather for worship, receive and care for members, make disciples, guard the gospel, and bear witness to Christ.
Jesus Christ will return bodily and visibly. The dead will be raised, and God will judge every person through Christ. Those who belong to Christ will enter everlasting life in the renewed creation, while those who remain in their sin will face just and everlasting judgment. God's kingdom will be fully revealed, sin and death will be no more, and God will dwell with His people forever.
Freedom holds the following convictions because we believe they faithfully reflect Scripture. We also recognize that faithful Christians who share our commitment to the gospel may reach different conclusions on some of them. These convictions matter here because they shape what you will hear taught, experience in worship, and be asked to practice as part of the church.
Before the world began, God chose a people for Himself in Christ. His choice rests in His grace, not in human merit or anything He foresaw that would make us worthy. In time, God calls sinners to Himself and gives them new life through the Holy Spirit. Those He saves genuinely repent and believe in Christ. God justifies them, adopts them, sanctifies them, and preserves them in faith.
This truth gives God all the glory for salvation. It also gives believers deep comfort. Our hope rests in the God who planned salvation, accomplished it through His Son, applies it by His Spirit, and keeps His people to the end.
The Bible tells one story through a series of covenants God made with His people. Each covenant moves His saving purpose forward and points ahead to Jesus Christ. The New Covenant in His blood is where these promises, patterns, and hopes arrive.
Because Christ fulfills what came before Him, we read the Old Testament in light of the New Testament. The fulfillment revealed in Jesus helps us understand earlier promises, patterns, institutions, and commands. This does not make the Old Testament less important. It helps us read the whole Bible as Christian Scripture with Christ at its center.
Jesus gave His church two ordinances that visibly proclaim the gospel.
Baptism is for those who personally repent and believe in Christ. We baptize believers by immersion in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Baptism does not save. It publicly identifies a believer with Christ in His death and resurrection and with His people. Read more about baptism at Freedom.
The Lord's Supper is Christ's covenant meal for His gathered church. In the bread and cup, believers remember and proclaim His once-for-all death, express our unity as one body, and receive genuine spiritual nourishment as we commune with Christ by faith. The bread and cup do not become Christ's body and blood, and the Supper does not repeat His sacrifice.
The Lord's Supper is open to followers of Jesus who are in good standing with their local church. Participants do not need to be members of Freedom Bible Church in order to come to the Table with us. We welcome believers while also calling everyone who participates to examine themselves, discern Christ's body, and receive the Supper with faith, repentance, gratitude, and love for the church.
Church members are people who have personally trusted Christ, publicly confessed their faith through baptism, and committed themselves to a particular local church. Membership gives visible and accountable form to the Christian calling to gather, love, serve, encourage, correct, forgive, and bear with one another. It does not save us or add to Christ's work. Learn why membership matters at Freedom.
Jesus is the Head and Chief Shepherd of the church. He entrusts each local church to qualified elders, also called pastors or overseers, who serve together under His Word. Scripture entrusts the office of elder to qualified men of proven character who can teach sound doctrine. Freedom's elders preach and teach, pray for the church, guard the gospel, equip the saints, and shepherd the people entrusted to their care.
When a member persists in serious sin, the church follows Jesus' instruction in Matthew 18 with the aim of restoring a brother or sister. Church discipline is an act of truth and love. Its purpose is repentance, protection, reconciliation, and faithful care, not humiliation or institutional punishment.
God created men and women equally in His image. They share the same dignity in creation, the same need for redemption, the same salvation in Christ, and the same calling to use their gifts for the good of His church. Men and women are both indispensable to Freedom's life and ministry.
Scripture entrusts the teaching and governing office of elder to qualified men. Women serve meaningfully throughout the church through discipleship, prayer, hospitality, mercy, administration, music, children's instruction, teaching other women, and other forms of leadership and service under the care of the elders. Our aim is to honor the pattern Scripture gives while encouraging every member to use the gifts Christ supplies.
When Freedom gathers on the Lord's Day, we want our worship to be shaped by what God commands in His Word. We read Scripture, pray, sing, hear the Word preached, give, and observe baptism and the Lord's Supper. These ordinary practices keep our attention on Christ and trust the Holy Spirit to work through the means God has given.
The gathering belongs to the whole church. Families ordinarily worship together rather than children being routinely separated into age-based worship services. Children learn to worship over time as they participate alongside parents and believers across generations. The church supports parents in their primary responsibility to disciple their children and practices patience and shared care for households in many different seasons. Read more about families at Freedom, or learn why we gather this way.
Scripture alone is our final authority. Creeds and confessions can serve the church by summarizing biblical teaching, but they do not stand beside or above God's Word. Every confession must be tested by Scripture.
Freedom uses the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith as our confessional standard and a trusted summary of our theology. Our elders adhere to the doctrine expressed in the confession, and the congregation should expect our preaching and teaching to be consistent with it. Members are not required to understand or personally subscribe to every article of the confession in order to belong to Freedom.
Freedom Bible Church is officially non-denominational. Our theology stands substantially within the historic Reformed Baptist theological tradition. That description helps locate our convictions in the wider history of the church without replacing our dependence on Scripture or turning a theological label into a substitute for explanation.
Doctrine is truth for worship and life. What we believe about God leads us to love Him with reverence, trust, and joy. What we believe about Christ and His church teaches us to pursue holiness, care for one another, receive shepherding, forgive, serve, and persevere together. What we believe about the gospel sends us into our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, and the nations as witnesses to Jesus.
Freedom Bible Church exists to make disciples who love upward, inward, and outward.
We love upward because the triune God is worthy of our worship and obedience. We love inward because Christ has joined His people to one another in a local church. We love outward because the risen Lord sends His people to proclaim the gospel and love our neighbors. These are not stages we complete. They are integrated dimensions of a life shaped by God's grace.
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