First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Texas is a Southern Baptist Church, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the Southern Baptist Convention. Although we are affiliated with these two entities, we are an autonomous group in that no organization or denominational authority guides the work or rule of our church. We use a congregational rule of governing in that the local body of believers guides our church.
We hold to the following beliefs:
- The Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of God’s revelation of Himself to man. It has God as its author and is written without any error or contradiction.
- We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.
- Salvation is only by accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and is free to all who are willing to accept Him. This salvation came by the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
- Membership comes by salvation through Jesus Christ and as a testimony of that salvation, immersion through water baptism.
- We practice two church ordinances: baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
- God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to an appropriate end. Jesus Christ will personally and visibly return to this earth and will judge the righteous and unrighteous according to what they have done in accepting or rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
- Every Christian should return at least a tithe (10%) of their income to the local church for the advancement of the cause of Christ on this earth.
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