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Calvary Baptist Church of Gaines

10500 Grand Bland Road
989-271-9221

What We Believe :

The Scriptures
We believe in the verbal, plenary (full, entire, complete) inspiration of the Bible, which is the Word of God, that in its truthfulness and completeness it is the only and final criterion and authority of both church and individual for faith and practice.

God
We believe that there is one God eternally existing, manifesting Himself to us in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).

The Person and Work of Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His substitutionary death on the cross for our sins; His bodily resurrection from the grave; His ascension to the right hand of God, where he liveth to make intercession for believers; and His personal, visible, imminent, and premillennial return to the earth at the end of this age.

The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is very God, possessed of all the distinctive Divine attributes. We believe that He is the Administrator  of the things of God concerning sin, revealing truth, energizing believers for prayer and service, and restraining evil "until he be taken out of the way."  

Satan
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan; that he is a created being, once known as the "anointed cherub that covereth"; that through pride he fell; that he is the "god of this world" and the "prince of the power of the air"; that  the judgment already passed on him will be executed at the Revelation of Jesus Christ; and that ultimately he will be cast into the lake of fire.

Man
We believe that man was created by God in his own image, not by evolution but by a special act of creation, and that this creative act of  God was separate and distinct from any other work of God. We believe the scripture record of the fall of man through his own disobedience, bringing the whole human race under sin and death; that man is totally depraved and hopelessly lost apart from the grace and salvation of God.

Salvation
We believe that salvation is by grace through repentant faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ; that it is instantaneous and wholly apart from the human merit; that every individual is a sinner by birth and that all accountable human beings are sinners by practice and by choice and therefore must exercise personal faith in the redeeming work of Christ on  Calvary and receive him as Savior in order to be saved.

We believe that it is a privilege of believers to rejoice in full assurance of their salvation through the testimony of  God's Word, but that the same Word clearly forbids the use of our liberty as an occasion to the flesh.


We believe that salvation is eternal; that all who are truly born again are kept by God the Father for the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Church
The Body of Christ. We believe that every born-again believer, is, by the sovereign act of God, accorded a place in the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit, and that this body is Biblically identified as "the church."

We believe that a local church is a congregation of immersed believers, associated together by covenant faith and fellowship of the Gospel; that it has the absolute right of self-government, directed by the Holy Spirit and answerable only to Christ; that in all matters of membership, polity, government, discipline, and benevolences the will of the church is final.

We believe the ordinance of the church are baptism by immersion and the Lord's supper.