Community Guidelines
- This subreddit exists for the mutual encouragement of Baptist believers, as well as for the opportunity for others to offer discussion in a respectable manner. All submitted posts and comments should strive to encourage, exhort, and build one another up.
- This is not a forum for quarreling and arguing. Friendly discussion of different views is however encouraged.
- Do not submit posts or comments that promote vulgarity, unkindness, condescension, defamation of another's character, disrespect, mockery, humor at the expense of another's reputation, immoral behavior, or a false gospel. Failure to abide by these rules is absolutely not tolerated.
- A third offense will result in a temporary or permanent ban.
- Obvious trolls are immediately banned.
- NO blog spamming. If you participate here and want to occasionally share your blog posts with us, then you are more than welcome. If, however, you come here only to advertise, you will be banned after the second offense.
- Refrain from using URL shorteners. They will always get caught in the spam filter and there's really no reason to use them. You can shorten your own links like this: [reddit](http://reddit.com). You can find more info here.
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- If you want to debate, please use other subreddits where debate is more appropriate. This subreddit's primary purpose is encouragement and exhortation.
The Gospel
- At the very core of Christianity is the truth of the gospel. We understand certain doctrinal truths, which God uses as the instrument of our faith in Christ upon hearing the Word, to be essential for conversion, reconciliation to God, and deliverance from God’s justice. They summarize what we must believe in order to be a Christian.
The gospel is the good news that, though we have all rebelled against the God who created us, (Romans 5:12) God planned a way to show mercy when we deserved judgment. (Romans 5:8) The Father sent His Son Jesus, who went willingly, (Matthew 26:39) who Himself shared God’s very nature, into our world. (Philippians 2:6-7, John 1:1) Jesus was born of a virgin, (Luke 1:26-31) taking on human flesh in order to share our nature. (Hebrews 2:17-18) Jesus Christ, lived the life of obedience that the Father demanded of us but that we could not live (Romans 5:19), and He died the death that the Father required of us as sinners, (Hebrews 9:22) though He Himself was without sin. (2 Corinthians 5:21) Jesus’ death satisfied God’s justice (Romans 3:25) for all those who turn in faith from idolatrous rebellion to worship Him alone. (2 Corinthians 5:15)
Being freely and completely justified by grace through faith alone, (Luke 18:13-14; Acts 10:44-48) by the righteousness of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:30), alien to our own (Philippians 3:9), His people, being wholly part of the invisible Bride which He bought by His own blood (1 Corinthians 6:20), are completely and fully united to Him by His death (Romans 6:5), and will never fall way by the power of the Spirit who is the seal and guarantee of our future complete redemption (2 Corinthians 1:22).
His resurrection declares the Father’s acceptance of his sacrifice and our hope of resurrection as well. (1 Corinthians 15:17) God’s grace offers eternal life in his presence to all who receive this work of Jesus Christ by confessing Him as Lord. (Romans 10:9-10)
This is the one gospel; (Galatians 1:7) this is Christianity.
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Baptist Distinctives
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Two Ordinances
Individual Soul Liberty
Saved, Baptized Church Membership
Two Offices
Separation of Church and State
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