About Us
Pentucket Baptist Church was established in 1975 by Baptist Mid-Missions Missionary Edgar Mitchel. Our purpose is to further the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to grow in the Word of God, and be Ambassadors for the Lord. The Church is founded on Jesus Christ and carries out the Word of God.
STATEMENT OF FAITH
1: The
Bible
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally
and plenarily inspired Word of God (Matthew 5:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). We hold
the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, infallible, God-breathed,
and the complete and final authority for faith and practice (2 Timothy
3:16-17). The Holy Spirit was the divine author of Scripture (2 Peter 1:21).
While still using the individual personalities of the human authors, the Spirit
superintended them to insure that they wrote precisely what He wanted written,
without error or omission.
2: God
We believe in one Triune God, who is Creator of all (Deuteronomy 6:4;
Colossians 1:16), eternally existing in three distinct Persons – Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:14), yet one in being, essence, power and
glory, having the same attributes and perfections (John 10:30). God is our
creator (Genesis 1:1), is eternal (Psalm 90:2), infinite (1 Timothy 1:17),
sovereign (Psalm 93:1) and unsearchable (Romans 11:33-34). God is omniscient
(Psalm 139:1-6), omnipresent (Psalm 139:7-13), omnipotent (Revelation 19:6),
and unchanging (Malachi 3:6). God is holy (Isaiah 6:3), just (Deuteronomy
32:4), and righteous (Exodus 9:27). God is love (1 John 4:8), gracious
(Ephesians 2:8), merciful (1 Peter 1:3), and good (Romans 8:28).
3: Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is fully God, the
expressed image of the Father, who, without ceasing to be God, became man in
order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful man (Matthew 1:21; John 1:18;
Colossians 1:15).
We believe that God the Son became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ;
that He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary; that
He is truly God and truly man; that He lived a perfect, sinless life; that all
His teachings are true (Isaiah 14; Matthew 1:23). We believe that the Lord
Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind (1 John 2:2) as a
representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice (Isaiah 53:5-6). We hold
that His death is efficacious for all who believe (John 1:12; Acts 16:31); that
our justification is grounded in the shedding of His blood (Romans 5:9;
Ephesians 1:17); and that it is attested by His literal, physical resurrection
from the dead (Matthew 28:6; 1 Peter 1:3).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven in His glorified body
(Acts 1:9-10) and is now seated at the right hand of God as our High Priest and
Advocate (Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25).
4: The Holy Spirit
We believe in the deity and personality of the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4). We
believe that the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and
judgment (John 16:8-11). He regenerates sinners (Titus 3:5) and indwells
believers (Romans 8:9). He is the agent by whom Christ baptizes all believers
into His body (1 Corinthians 12:12-14). He is the seal by whom the Father seals
believers unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 1:13-14). He is the Divine
Teacher who illumines believers’ hearts and minds as they study the Word of God
(1 Corinthians 2:9-12).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is ultimately sovereign in the distribution of
spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 12:11). We believe that speaking in tongues and
the working of sign miracles gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures
were completed, their authority upheld, and the early church firmly established
(1 Corinthians 12:4-11; 2 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 2:20; 4:7-12).
5: Angels and Demons
We believe in the reality and personality of angels. We believe that God
created an innumerable company of these sinless, spiritual beings who were to
be His servants and messengers (Nehemiah 9:6; Psalm 148:2; Hebrews 1:14).
We believe in the existence and personality of Satan and demons. Satan is a
fallen angel who led a great company of angels into rebellion against God
(Isaiah 14:12-17; Ezekiel 28:12-15). He is the great enemy of God and man, and
the demons are his agents in his unholy purposes. He and his demons shall be
eternally punished in the lake of fire (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10).
6: Man
We believe that man came into being by direct creation of God and that man is
made in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). We believe that the
human race sinned in Adam (Romans 5:12), that sin is universal in man (Romans
3:23), and that it is exceedingly offensive to God.
We believe that all mankind, because of Adam's fall, has inherited a sinful
nature. Humanity is utterly unable to remedy its lost estate (Eph 2:1-5,12). We
believe that all men are guilty and in a lost condition apart from Christ
(Romans 2:1).
7: Salvation
We believe that salvation is a gift of God’s grace through faith in the
finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross (Ephesians 2:8-9). Christ shed His
blood to accomplish justification through faith, propitiation to God,
redemption from sin, and reconciliation of man. Christ died for us (Romans
5:8-9) and bore our sins in His own body (1 Peter 2:24).
We believe that all those who have truly placed their faith in Christ are eternally
secure in their salvation, kept by God’s power, secure and sealed in Christ
forever (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39; Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 Peter
1:5; Jude 24).
8: The Church
We believe that the Church, which is the Body and Bride of Christ, is a
spiritual organism made up of all born-again believers of the present age (1
Corinthians 12:12-14; 2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 1:22-23; 5:25-27). We
believe in the ordinances of believer’s baptism by immersion as a testimony and
the Lord’s Supper as a remembrance of Christ’s death and shed blood (Matthew
28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 18:8; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26). We believe in the
priesthood of all believers (1 Corinthians 1:1; Revelation 1:6). We believe
that the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their
Lord and Savior, and that separation from sinful pleasures, practices, and
associations is commanded by God (Romans 12:1-2; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 2
Timothy 3:1-5; 1 John 2:15-17). We believe in the Great Commission as the
primary mission of the Church. It is the obligation of believers to witness, by
word and life, to the truths of God’s Word. The gospel of the grace of God is
to be preached to all the world (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 1:8; 2 Corinthians
5:19-20). New believers are to be taught to obey the Lord and to testify
concerning their faith in Christ as Savior and to honor Him by holy living.
9: Things to Come
We believe in the blessed hope (Titus 2:13), the personal, imminent,
pretribulational, and premillennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to rapture
His saints (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). We believe in the subsequent, visible
return of Christ to the earth with His saints to establish His promised
millennial kingdom (Zechariah 14:4-11; 1 Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 3:10;
19:11-16; 20:1-6). We believe in the physical resurrection of all men – the
saints to everlasting joy and bliss, and the wicked to conscious and eternal
torment (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13). We believe
that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present
with the Lord, where they await the first resurrection when spirit, soul, and
body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; 2
Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17; Revelation
20:4-6). We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in
conscious misery until the second resurrection when, with soul and body
reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne judgment and shall be cast
into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting
conscious punishment (Matthew 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-48; Luke 16:19-26; 2
Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:11-15).
- 8 East Road, P.O. Box 804
- Atkinson, NH
- Rockingham County
- 03811
(603)505-9197