MBS Statement of Faith

  1. We believe the Bible is the Word of God and revelation of God. We therefore accept the trustworthiness of its historical records as inerrant in its original writings, the authority of its teachings, and the truth of all Christ's utterances contained in it.

  2. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  3. We believe in Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is therefore true God and true man.

  4. We believe our Lord Jesus Christ lived a perfect life and died for our sins according to the Scriptures, voluntarily bearing our guilt and suffering as our substitute.

  5. We believe all who believe in Him are now justified by His blood, and shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

  6. We believe in His corporeal resurrection, His ascension into Heaven, and His present life there as our Priest and Advocate.

  7. We believe man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God. As consequence of the Fall all human beings are born with a sinful nature.

  8. We believe in the universality and heinousness of sin, in the necessity of being saved by grace, and that sonship with God is attained only by regeneration through the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus Christ.

  9. We believe in the personality and the godhead of the Holy Spirit, who came down upon earth on the day of Pentecost, and we believe in His offices to convict the world in respect of sin and of righteousness and of judgment, and to indwell believers as their Teacher, Sanctifier and Comforter.

  10. We believe in the Great Commission which our Lord has given to His Church to disciple the world; this is the great mission of the Church.

  11. We believe in the Great Commandment our Lord gave to us to love others even as He has loved us.

  12. We believe in that blessed hope, the personal return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

  13. We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the judgment of the living and of the dead; the everlasting blessedness of the saved; and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

  14. We do not take a specific stand on the mode of baptism or the form of church government.

  15. We hold to those doctrines that are common to the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms and the Second London Confession of 1689.