What We Believe

Changing

  • Changed by the gospel

  • Committed to personal and family times of prayer and Bible study

  • Corporately and individually worshipping the Lord

Learning

  • Controlled by a renewed mind that is first thinking-oriented, not feeling-oriented

  • Continuing to grow in Biblical understanding and application to everyday life

  • Connected to and involved in the local church body

Serving

  • Choosing to offer their time, talents, and treasure joyfully to the Lord and His church

  • Caring for and ministering to those inside and outside the church

  • Counseling and being counseled with the sufficient Word of God

  • Constantly looking for opportunities to evangelize the lost

Interested in the greatest story ever told?

This video does a great job explaining the good news of the gospel that we preach each Sunday.

Constitution and Articles of Faith

Changing, Learning, and Serving are at the core of our beliefs at Cornerstone Baptist Church, but our full Articles of Faith are found at the bottom of our Constitution.

The Articles of Faith are provided below for easy reading and you can use the button to download our full Constitution as a PDF.

Articles of Faith

Article One

We believe that the Bible, in its original text, is God's divinely inspired Word. It is infallible, it speaks with final authority concerning truth, morality, and the proper conduct of mankind, and it is the sole and final source of all that we believe. (II Timothy 3:16-17; II Peter 1:19-21; Psalm 119:160; John 17:17)

Article Two

We believe in God the Father, perfect in holiness, infinite in wisdom, measureless in power. We rejoice that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of men, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all that come to Him through Jesus Christ. (Exodus 20:2-3; I Corinthians 8:6; Ephesians 4:6; Romans 11:33)

Article Three

We believe in Jesus Christ, the eternal and only begotten Son of God, conceived of the Holy Spirit, of virgin birth, sinless in His life, making atonement for the sins of the world by His death. We believe in His bodily resurrection, His ascension and visible, pre-millennial return to the world according to His promise. (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:18-25; Galatians 4:4; I John 5:20; Matthew 24:42; Revelation 19:11-20:3)

Article Four

We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from God to convince the world of sin, of righteousness and of judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and comfort those who believe in Jesus Christ. The Spirit also dispenses spiritual gifts to believers though some of these gifts were limited as to time, such as apostles, miracles, healing, tongues, interpretation of tongues; many others are permanent gifts for the total church age. (John 14:16-17; John 3:5-6; John 15:26-27; John 16:8-11; Ephesians 1:13-14; Romans 8:16; I Corinthians 13:8; Ephesians 2:20; Hebrews 2:3-4)

Article Five

We believe that all men, by nature and by choice, are sinners but that "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." We believe, therefore, that those who accept Christ as Lord and Savior will rejoice forever in God's presence and those who refuse to accept Christ as Lord and Savior will be forever separated from God and condemned to everlasting punishment in Hell. (Genesis 3:1-3; Romans 5:12; Romans 3:10-19; Ephesians 2:1-3; John 3:16-17; Romans 5:9; John 1:12; Ephesians 1:13-14; Revelation 20:11-15)

Article Six

We believe that all human life is sacred and created by God in His image. Human life is of inestimable worth in all its dimensions, including pre-born babies, the aged, the physically or mentally challenged, and every other stage or condition from conception through death. We are therefore called to value all human life, protecting and defending it against any effort to shorten it unnaturally. We also believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as male or female, and that these two distinct, complementary genders together reflect the image and nature of God. We believe that God creates marriage, regardless of how civil authorities define it, to be exclusively the union of one man and one woman. This covenant is intended to last a lifetime, and intimate sexual activity is to occur exclusively within that union. (Psalm 139:13-16; Genesis 1:26-27, 2:18-25; I Corinthians 6:18, 7:2-5; Hebrews 13:4)

Article Seven

We believe in the Church - a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and of which all regenerated people are members. We believe that a local church is a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized by immersion on a credible confession of faith and associated for worship, work and fellowship. We believe that to these local churches were committed, for perpetual observance, the administration of the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's supper to believers. We believe that God has laid upon these churches the task of proclaiming to a lost world the acceptance of Jesus Christ as Savior, and the enthroning of Him as Lord and Master. (I Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 5:22-32; Acts 2:41-42; I Corinthians 11:2; Matthew 28:19-20; Romans 6:4-5; I Corinthians 11:23-28)

Article Eight

We believe that every human being is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that therefore, church and state must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from the dictation or patronage of the other. (Colossians 1:18; Ephesians 5:23-24; I Peter 5:1-4; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 23:10; Philippians 2:10-11)