Who Are We?
Westfort Baptist Church is is a body of believers desiring to know the Lord Jesus Christ, and to make Him known in our city, our nation, our world, and most specifically in our lives.
We seek to encourage and equip people to walk with God daily, to build authentic community, and to reach others intentionally.
We invite you to get to know us, and to join us.
What We Believe
Our church
We adhere to the statement
of faith held by the family of churches we belong to, The Fellowship of
Evangelical Baptist Churches in
Statement of Faith
The
Bible
We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six
books, as originally written, comprising the Old and New Testaments were
verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from
error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and
practice and the true basis of Christian union.
God
We believe in one God, creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal,
existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit.
Jesus Christ
We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His
eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, in His virgin
birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection,
triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.
The Holy Spirit
We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the
Holy Spirit Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment; Who
regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in
Jesus Christ.
Satan
We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of
sin, the archenemy of God and man.
Man
We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he
sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity,
thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.
Salvation
We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God;
that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a
vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by
faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord
Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be
divinely preserved and finally perfected in the image of the Lord.
Future Things
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus
Christ; in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the
eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious,
eternal punishment of the wicked.
The Local Church
We believe that a church is a company of immersed believers, called out
from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated
for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the
propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances. We
believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely
awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the
Great Head of the church. We believe that its officers are pastors and
deacons.
Ordinances
We believe that there are only two ordinances for the church regularly
observed in the New Testament in the following order:
- Baptism, which is the immersion of the believer in water,
whereby he obeys Christ’s command and sets forth his identification with
Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
- The Lord’s Supper, which is the memorial wherein the believer
partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord’s
body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He come.
The Church and State
We believe in the entire separation of church and state.
Religious Liberty
We believe in religious liberty; that every man has the right to
practise and propagate his beliefs.
The Lord’s Day
We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord’s day and that, in
a special sense, it is the divinely appointed day for worship and
spiritual exercise.
Civil Government
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the
interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed
for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except only in the things
opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the only Lord of
the conscience and Prince of the kings of the earth.
