Emory Heights Baptist Church

Pastor Wayne Nelson Services:Sunday Morning Sunday School 10:00 AM Worship Services 11:00 AM Evening Services 6:00 PM Wednesday Night Awana 6:30 - 8:30 Prayer Meeting / Bible Study 7:00 PM Everyone is welcome to attend. We are a traditional Baptist Church where the Word Of God is Preached and Teaching of the scriptures is important to our family both at home and church. We have a lot of youth and teaching of the scriptures at their level of age is offered. STATEMENT OF FAITH The Holy Scriptures. We believe the Holy Scriptures to be the plenarily, verbally inspired Word of God, authoritative, inerrant, infallible and God-breathed. (II Tim. 3: 16-17; II Peter 1:20-21; Matt. 5:18; I Cor. 2:10-13). a. The Godhead. We believe in one triune God, existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternal in being, identical in essence, equal in power and glory and having the same attributes and perfections. (Duet. 6:4; II Cor. 13-14). b. The Total Depravity of Man. We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, became alienated from God, and is totally unable to regain its former position. (Gen. 1:26; 3:1-24; Rom. 3:23; 5:12; Eph.2:12). c. The Person and Work of Christ. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man. We believe that He accomplished our redemption through His death on the Cross as a substitutionary sacrifice. We believe that our redemption and salvation is guaranteed to us by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead. (John1:1,14,18; Luke 1:35; Rom. 3:24-26; 4:25). d. The Personality of the Holy Spirit. We believe the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. He also in the present age regenerates believers in Christ, baptizes them into the church, the body of Christ, indwells them permanently, seals them unto the day of redemption, bestows spiritual gifts upon each one, and fills those yielded to Him. (John 15:26,27; 16:7-15; 3:8; I Cor. 12:13; John 14:16: Eph. 4:30; I Cor. 12:4-11; Eph.5:18). e. Salvation. We believe that salvation is a gift of God in grace and is received by man through personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ whose precious blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins. (Eph. 1:8-9; John 1:12; Eph. 1:7). f. Regeneration. We believe the scriptures teach that regeneration, or the new birth, is that change in the soul by the Holy Spirit, by which a new nature and spiritual life, not before possessed, are imparted, and the person becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus; and without it salvation is impossible. (John 3:3-6; II Cor. 5:17; I Peter 1:23). g. Sanctification. We believe that immediate, positional sanctification is that act of God whereby believers are, at the time of regeneration, eternally set apart as belonging to Him by redemption, thereby being placed in the family of God as children, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. (I John 3:1; Rom. 8:14-17; I Cor. 1:2; Heb. 10:10-14). We believe that progressive sanctification is the process by which, according to God’s will, we are partakers of His holiness, that it is progressive; that it is begun in regeneration; that it progresses if the believer is yielded to the Spirit’s control; that it is carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit though the Word of God, self examination, watchfulness and prayer (I Thess. 4:3; Eph 6:18; John 17:17). We believe that ultimate sanctification will be the portion of every believer, when finally in the presence of the Lord, complete and entire, with soul and spirit united in the resurrected body, free from every trace or effect of sin and rebellion. (I John 3:1; I Cor. 15: 52-54; Eph. 4:30; 5:27; and Phil 4:20-21). h. The Eternal Security of the Believer. The salvation of every believer is secure for all eternity from the moment of regeneration. This security is guaranteed by the fact that the life received is eternal life, by the sealing ministry of the Holy Spirit, by the intercession of Christ by placing into God’s family as children (Rom. 8:1, 29-30; John 10:27-30; Heb. 7:25; Eph. 4:30; John 3:3-7; Eph. 3:15). i. The Church. We believe that all in this age who are truly born again are baptized by the Holy Spirit into virtual union with Christ and into the universal church which is His body and Bride. Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27; I Cor. 12:12-13 Gal. 3:27). We believe that each local church is a visible expression of a portion of the Body of Christ, and is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, organized for worship and service, observing the ordinances of baptism and the Lord’s supper, and exercising the gifts, rights and privileges invested in them by His Word. (Acts 2:41; 14:27; I Tim. 3: 1-13; Titus 1:5-11; I Cor. 3: 10-17; 5: 1-5: 11:2). j. Church Ordinances. We believe that the Lord Jesus instituted two ordinances to be observed by all believers until His return. We believe that baptism is the immersion in water of a believer in Christ, into the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to show forth by solemn and beautiful symbolism our identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection (Matt. 28:19; Acts 8:36; I Peter 3:21). We believe that the Lord’s supper is partaking of bread and the fruit of the vine, as symbols of Christ’s body and blood, commemorating His suffering and death for us, and His imminent return for the saints (called the rapture) and our continual benefit there from: that participation should be limited to those who have united to the local church by baptism and testimony, or those visitors who are baptized members of churches of like faith and order. k.We believe that it is the responsibility of all believers to witness by life and by word to the truths of the Holy Scriptures and to assume responsibility for the propagation of the gospel to all the world. (Acts1:8). We believe that it is the responsibility of all believers to remember the work of the local church and its extension ministries in prayer, to support it with their tithes and offerings as the Lord prospers them (I Cor. 16:2; Heb. 10:19-25; 13:17-18). m. The Second Coming of Christ. We believe in the personal pretribulational, imminent coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His own, the church, and His subsequent personal return visibly to the earth to establish His Kingdom and to reign over the entire earth from the throne of David. (II Sam. 7:12-16; Zech. 14: 4-11; Luke 1:30-33; Acts 15:14-18; I Thess. 4: 13-18; I Cor. 15:51-52; Rev. 19:11-16; 20:6). n. The Eternal State. We believe that the souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation do at death immediately pass into His presence, and there remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the body at His coming, when soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in glory, but the souls of unbelievers remain after death in conscious misery unto the final judgment of the Great White Throne at the close of the millennium, when soul and body reunited shall be cast into the lake of fire, not to be annihilated, but to be punished with ever-lasting separation from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power. (Luke 16:19-26; 23:43; II Cor. 55:8; Phil. 1:23; II Thess. 1:7-9; Rev. 20: 11-15).