What We Believe
Jesus is Lord
Regarding governance, “Jesus is Lord” is our primary confession.
Jesus reigns over all creation, especially His people, the Church. In
His sovereign rule, He has called sinners out of the world to be
forgiven, renewed and set apart as the managers of His creation.
Jesus’ lordship is carried out in this delegation of authority. The
presence and power of the Holy Spirit in the lives of His people
enables them to carry out His desired will and continue the Church
movement until He returns. Local autonomous congregations
comprise the universal Church. Molina Baptist Church is one of these
congregations called to represent Christ in Plateau Valley and
beyond.
Our Beliefs

We believe in the Holy Scripture, accepting fully the writings of the Old and New Testaments as the very Word of God, verbally inspired in all parts, our infallible and authoritative rule of faith and practice.

We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe in the Deity of Christ; His virgin birth, His shed blood for atonement; His bodily resurrection; His ascension into Heaven there to be our Intercessor.

We believe that the Holy Spirit convicts of sin, makes believers children of God through the new birth, assuring them of Heaven, and by His indwelling enables Christians to live a godly life.

We believe that all men are by nature and choice sinful and lost, and have within themselves no possible means of salvation.

We believe in salvation by grace, not by any virtue of works of men, but received only by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ that all true believers possess the gift of eternal life, a perfect righteousness, son-ship in the family of God, and the divine guarantee that they shall never perish.

We believe in the existence of Satan, the deceiver and ruler of this present world that he was defeated and judged at the cross, and therefore his final doom is certain.

We believe in the second coming of Christ; that His return from Heaven will be personal, visible, and glorious, the time being unrevealed but always imminent.

We believe in the priesthood of all believers, that Christ is our Great High Priest and through Him every born-again person has the right and responsibility to personally study and interpret the scriptures, guided by the Holy Spirit.

We believe that a New Testament Church is an organized body of born again baptized believers practicing scriptural ordinances and actively engaged in fulfilling the Great Commission.

We believe the two scriptural ordinances given to the local church are baptism by immersion of believers only, and the Lord’s Supper (Communion) to be partaken of by obedient Christians.