Sovereign Grace Bible Church

Insert regarding Beliefs

We at Sovereign Grace Bible Church declare that our final source of faith and practice is the inerrant and infallible Word of God, as found in the sixty-six books of the Bible. We also accept the Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 as an accurate and reliable (though not inspired) expression of what the Scriptures teach and the faith we confess¹. We also concur with the doctrinal teachings expressed in other reformed confessions such as the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, Second Helvetic Confession, Canons of Dort, etc. Moreover, we believe the doctrinal truths recovered in the sixteenth century Reformation which are summarized by the well-known sola’s: sola Sciptura, sola fide, sola gratia, solus Christus, and soli Deo gloria².

We are compelled to further clarify our doctrinal position as a result of the contemporary developments of Evangelicalism, with the following statements:

We believe in the Lordship of Christ.
We believe in the free offer of the Gospel.
We believe in the cessation of the revelatory gifts.
We are complimentarians as set forth in the Danvers Statement³.

^{1 In committing ourselves to the teaching and doctrines contained in
the Confession, we do not require the adoption of every word of the Confession.
Nor do we treat every doctrine within the Confession as if it were equally
important. One may scruple over a statement here and there (i.e. whether the
Pope is the Antichrist 26:4, the use of wine in communion 30:7,or the salvation
of the mentally incompetent 10:3, etc.) and still remain true to the doctrinal
intent of the Confession. Moreover, we could not be considered as a church that
holds the sabbatarian convictions expressed in chapter 22, paragraph 7 and 8.

² As affirmed in the Cambridge
Declaration at www.alliancenet.org

³ You can find the Danvers Statement
at www.cbmw.org}