Twelve Ryan Baptist Church
What We Believe.
Plain old doctrine from the plain old Book.
The following summarizes what we preach and how we gather. Nothing fancy — just what the Bible teaches and what Baptist churches have stood on for generations.
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The Scriptures
We believe the Bible is the verbally inspired, preserved Word of God, the only infallible rule for faith and practice. We stand upon the King James Bible in the English tongue.
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The Triune God
We believe there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three Persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — equal in every divine perfection.
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The Person and Work of Christ
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ is true God and true man, conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, who lived sinlessly, died for our sins, rose bodily from the dead, and is coming again.
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Salvation by Grace through Faith
We believe salvation is the free gift of God, received through faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ, apart from any human merit or works. Every believer is eternally secure in Christ.
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The Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit convicts the lost, indwells every believer at the moment of salvation, and empowers Christians to live godly lives and to do the work of the ministry.
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The Local Church
We believe the local church is an assembly of baptized believers gathered to worship, preach the Word, observe the ordinances, disciple one another, and carry the Gospel to every creature.
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The Two Ordinances
We believe the Lord Jesus Christ gave the church two ordinances — baptism by immersion as a picture of our union with Christ, and the Lord's Supper as a remembrance of His death until He comes.
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The Return of Christ
We believe in the personal, bodily, pre-millennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ to receive His Church, to judge the world, and to establish His kingdom.
“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
— Psalm 122:1