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We, the members of the Ringwood Baptist Church, do ordain and establish the following articles to which we voluntarily submit ourselves:

The purpose of our Church

The purpose for which this Church is established and ordained shall be to bear united witness to the faith of its members in the whole Bible as the inspired Word of God; to promulgate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the faith once for all delivered to the saints; to aid in missionary work and in the winning of the lost to the Lord Jesus Christ; and to build up its constitution in the most Holy faith.

Statement of Doctrine

A: The Holy Scriptures

 We believe that the Bible, composed of the Old and New Testaments, is inspired of God and is supreme and  final authority in faith and life. We believe in the supernatural as the vital element in the revelation and operation of the Christian Faith (II Tim. 3:16, 18; II Peter 1:20, 21;  Matt 5:18; John 16:12,13)

B: Godhead

We believe in one God eternally existing in Three Persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deut 6:4; II Cor. 13:14).

C: The Person and Work of Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true Man, and is the only sufficient Mediator between God and men. We believe in the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins, in the resurrection of His body, His ascension into Heaven, and His personal, visible, and premillenial return to the earth, and that salvation is received only through personal faith in His shed blood. (John 1:2-14; Luke 1:35; Rom. 3:24,25, 4:25; I Peter 1:3-5)

D: The Personality of the Holy Spirit

We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men in the regeneration and sanctification of their souls. (Rom. 8:9; I Cor. 12:12-14; Eph. 1:13,14)

E  The Total Depravity of Man

We believe that man was created in the image of God and that he sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death. (Gen. 1:26, 27; Rom. 3:22,23; 5:12; Eph. 2:12)

F: The Eternal State

We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sanctified by the Spirit of our God, are truly righteous in His esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked and under the curse that this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost. (Luke 16:19-26; 23:43; II Cor. 5:8; Phil.1:23: II Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Rev. 20:11-15).

G: Church Ordinances

We believe that baptism is immersion of the believer in water, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, setting forth the essential facts in redemption-the death and resurrection of Christ; also the essential facts in the experience of the believer dead to sin and resurrection to newness of life.

We believe that the Lord’s Supper is a commemoration of His death until He comes, and is to be celebrated at certain intervals and all members should endeavor to attend regularly. (Matt. 28:19,20; I Cor. 11:23-26)

H: The responsibility of believers

We believe that a New Testament Church is a body of believers associated for worship, service, the spread of the Gospel and the gathering out of the church from all the world. (Rom. 12:1,2; 14:13; II Cor. 6:14; 7:1; Acts 1:8; I Cor. 16:2).

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