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| Faith Baptist Church Connecting People with God, Others and Service |
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| Faith Baptist Church 311 Jackson Drive Covington, Va. 24426 540-962-6335 |
| Charter |
| In the year of our Lord, October 28, 1975 |
| WE, the undersigned, relying on the guidance of the Holy Spirit and by the signing of our names hereto do agree and covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ and with one another that we do constitute ourselves as Charter Members of the Faith Baptist Church, Covington, Virginia. |
FURTHER, we, the undersigned, each declare and confess with our faith wholly in the Lord Jesus
Christ for salvation by the experience of the new birth that we have been Scripturally baptized and
therefore are qualified to be Members.
Christ for salvation by the experience of the new birth that we have been Scripturally baptized and
therefore are qualified to be Members.
| ALSO, we, the undersigned, do believe in those great distinctive principles for which born again Christians have ever stood, namely: |
1. The pre-eminence of Christ as our Divine Lord and Master
2. The supreme authority of the Bible and its sufficiency as our only rule of faith and practice
3. The right of private interpretation and the competency of the individual soul in direct approach to God
4. The absolute separation of Church and State
5. The regenerate church membership
6. The beautiful symbolic ordinance of believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper in obedience to the command of
Christ
Christ
7. The complete independence of the local church and its inter-dependence in associated fellowship with other
churches
churches
8. The solemn obligation of majority rule, guaranteeing equal rights to all and special privileges to none
9. A world-wide program of missionary fervor and evangelism in obedience to the final command of the Lord
10. The personal, imminent, pre-millennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ
| AND, we, the undersigned, accept the doctrines of the Articles of Faith included herein; and, accept the duties of the Church Covenant included herein; we assemble ourselves together as the Faith Baptist Church, and adopt for our plan of outreach, government, and service the by-laws included herein. |
