What we believe as a Baptist

Top of the morning to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!
This past Wednesday we started our New Member's Class at 6:00pm and it was pretty good, we had 2 persons show up for the class out of the 5 who joined this past Sunday!! Any Pastor who is reading this blog know that, that is an awesome turn out. Of course I am teaching this class so that the New Members can get a chance to talk to their pastor one on one. The reason why I put the New Member's class on Wednesday nights right before Bible Class is because I want the New Members to become acclimated to coming to church on Wednesdays so they can come to Bible Class!!
This past Bible Class we are still studying what we believe as a baptist, and we got a chance to get to two more Articles of Faith, let me share them with you:
Article V- Justification- We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed, not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood; by virtue of which faith his perfect righteousness is freely imputed to us of God; that it brings us into a state of most blessed peace and favor with God, and secures every other blessing needful for time and eternity.
Article VI- The Freeness of Salvation- We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by the gospel; that it is the immediate duty of all to accept them by a cordial, penitent, and obedient faith; and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the gospel; which rejection involves him in an aggravated condemnation.
Again the point of this series that we are teaching in our Bible Class is to make the Disciples of New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, Biblically astute, and that they will be able to defend it to non-believers.
Can I close with this? Do you know what it is that you believe? leave me a comment!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28