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Springville Baptist Church is a Christ-centered, cross-centered, independent Baptist church
located in Springville Pennsylvania, in the heart of the beautiful Endless Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
We are dedicated to bringing the Good News of the gospel of Jesus Christ
to a lost and dying world.
Our Purpose Statement
Believing that we of the Springville Baptist Church have been called to make disciples of Christ, it is our
purpose to glorify God by edifying this Body in becoming active Christ-like disciple makers. We will
accomplish this by evangelizing the lost in our locality as well as around the world and enlisting belivers
into the local church where they will be equipped for the work of the ministry. This way our purpose will
be multiplied in exalting and glorifying God.
Our Confession of Faith (What we believe)
I. AS TO THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES
We believe the Old and New Testaments to be supernaturally inspired of God. They are the very Word of God without
any admixture of error, and that they are the only sufficient and perfect rule of faith and practice.
II. AS TO THE GOD-HEAD
There is one God, and only one, who is self-existent, eternal, and infinite in every excellence and who has
revealed Himself as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the same in essence, and distinct in personality.
III. AS TO THE CREATION AND FALL OF MAN
Man was created directly in God's own image as literally described in Genesis. And his creation was not a matter
of evolutionary change of species from lower to higher forms. By disobedience man fell, thereby losing his innocence,
becoming subject to death and to eternal torments of hell.
IV. AS TO JESUS CHRIST
Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God was begotten of the Holy Ghost in a miraculous manner, born of Mary, a virgin,
as no other man was ever born or can ever be born of woman, and that in order to save man from the guilt, condemnation,
and power of sin He offered His shed blood as an atonement when He suffered and died in the sinner's place upon
Calvary's Cross.
V. AS TO JUSTIFICATION AND REPENTANCE
The result of the heart-acceptance of Jesus Christ is justification, whereby pardon is secured and we are brought
into a state of peace and favor with God. The human means by which this result is brought about is repentance and
faith whereby we turn unto God in sincere contrition and accept Jesus Christ as an all-sufficient Savior.
VI. AS TO GOD'S PURPOSES IN GRACE
God has His purposes of grace in the salvation of men. These purposes are made effectual by the giving of His Son,
and in the constraining and regenerating power of the Holy Ghost upon all who believe on Christ. But these purposes
do not contravene the freedom of man's will, nor render inoperative the proclaiming of the Gospel to all.
VII. AS TO THE BELIEVER'S ASSURANCE
Nothing can separate true believers from the love of God; but they are "Kept by the power of God, through faith, unto
salvation," the sure proof of this being their patient continuance and progress in righteousness and true
holiness.
VIII. AS TO CHURCH ORDINANCES
The ordinances of the Gospel are Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Baptism is the immersion in water of the body of the
believer in Christ, "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" and it symbolizes the fact
of the believer's regeneration. The Lord's Supper is a commemoration of His dying love and symbolizes the fact that
the believer is continuously fed and nourished by Christ. In its observance it is to be placed after baptism according
to its symbolic and Historic order and as requierd by the teaching of the New Testament.
IX. AS TO THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH
The Church Spiritual includes the whole company of believers of whatever name, age or country, and is known only to
the eye of God. The Church Formal is a company of believers baptized in the name of the triune God, and observing the
forms, ordinances, and principles laid down in the New Testament.
X. AS TO THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH
The first day of the week is to be observed as the Lord's Day or the Christian Sabbath
XI. AS TO THE CHURCH AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Civil government is of divine appointment for the interests and good order of human society; and magistrates are to
be honored, prayed for and obeyed, except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ who is the only
Lord of the conscience and the Prince of the kings of the earth.
XII. AS TO THE RESURRECTION AND RAPTURE
Jesus Christ who was bodily raised up from the dead and who visibly ascended up into heaven "shall so come again in
like manner." We believe that Christ may come at any time to take His Church into the air and that after that He will
return to earth to judge the nations and fill the earth with His glory and power.
XIII. AS TO THE STATE OF THE JUST AND WICKED
There will be a bodily resurrection of the just and of the unjust, "but every man in his own order; Christ the first
fruits, afterward they that are Christ's at His coming." They that are Christ's will be raised at His coming wich
is before the thousand years' reign of Christ upon the earth, "but the rest of the dead lived not again until the
thousand years were finished;" therefore the unjust are not raised to judgment until after the reign of Christ. The
just will be raised for blessedness and reward. The unjust for judgment and eternal doom.
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