What We Believe
Lakeshore Baptist Church
1. We believe the Bible is God's Word given by divine inspiration, the record of God's revelation of Himself to humanity.
II Timothy 3:16
2. We believe in the one living and true God, perfect in wisdom, sovereignty, holiness, justice, mercy and love.
I Timothy 1:17;
Psalm 86:15;
Deuteronomy 32:3-4
3. We believe God created an order of spiritual beings called angels to serve Him and do His will.
Psalm 148:1-5;
Colossians 1:16
4. We believe God created man in His own image to have fellowship with Himself and to be steward over His creation.
Genesis 1:26-28
5. We believe salvation is redemption by Christ of the whole person from sin and death.
II Timothy 1:9-10;
I Thessalonians 5:23
6. We believe the Church is the body of which Christ is the head and all who believe in Him are members.
Ephesians 1:22-23;
Romans 12:4-5
7. We believe religious liberty, rooted in Scripture, is the inalienable right of all individuals to freedom of conscience with ultimate accountability to God.
Genesis 1:27;
John 8:32;
II Corinthians 3:17;
Romans 8:21;
Acts 5:29
8. We believe Christians, individually and collectively, are salt and light in society.
Matthew 5:13-16
9. We believe God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring all things to their appropriate end and establish the new heaven and the new earth.
Ephesians 1:9-10;
Revelation 21:1
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