Soldiers Without Swords: Are They Being Truly Welcomed?

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Are They Being Truly Welcomed?

While visiting Spurgeon's Church in London, England, I was impressed with how intent the parishioners were to welcome newcomers. With my daughter and son in law, I entered the church on Sunday evening and was immediately engaged in conversation by a South African couple who had recently moved to the UK. They talked with us about a variety of subjects, asked about life in America, what brought us to Metropolitan Baptist, etc. They could have just smiled, shook our hands and been on to someone else. Rather, they were genuinely interested in us and made us feel right at home and quite welcomed.

Carry this thought with you to church this morning and take some time to make someone feel that they have come to the right place!

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My Statement of Faith

We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice.

We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.

We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory.

We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.

We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocency, but by their disobedience, they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall, all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has by His suffering and death made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever will may be saved.

We believe that repentance toward God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation.

We believe that we are justified by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and that he that believeth hath the witness in himself.

We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We believe in the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, in the general judgement at the end of the world, in the endless punishment of the wicked and in the eternal happiness of the righteous.