What We Believe
Read our beliefs on different biblical topics. We affiliate with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Doctrinal Statement
Millcreek Church affiliates with the Southern Baptist Convention and holds to the Baptist Faith & Message (2000). These are the foundational truths that shape everything we do.
The Holy Bible is God's inspired, inerrant Word — a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter. All Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
2 Timothy 3:16–17; Matthew 5:17–18; Luke 21:33There is one living and true God — infinite in holiness — who exists eternally in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience.
Genesis 1:1; Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 8:6Jesus is the eternal Son of God — fully God and fully man — who was born of the virgin Mary, lived a sinless life, died on the cross for our sins, rose bodily from the dead, and will return in glory.
Isaiah 7:14; John 1:1,14; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4The Holy Spirit is fully divine. He inspired Scripture, convicts, regenerates, and indwells every believer — cultivating Christlikeness and equipping us for service through His church.
John 16:8; Acts 1:8; Ephesians 1:13–14Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Repent, believe, and receive — there is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.
John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8–9; Romans 10:9–10Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water — a public declaration of faith and identification with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection.
Matthew 28:18–20; Romans 6:3–5; Acts 2:41A New Testament church is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, governed by Christ through democratic processes, seeking to extend the Gospel to all the earth.
Matthew 18:15–20; Ephesians 1:22–23; Acts 2:41–42Every believer has direct access to God through Jesus Christ. We are a House of Prayer — God transforms individuals, families, and communities through the prayers of His people.
James 5:13–18; Matthew 6:9–13; 2 Chronicles 7:14Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory. The dead will be raised and He will judge all people in righteousness. The redeemed will dwell forever with God in heaven.
John 14:1–3; 1 Thessalonians 4:14–18; Revelation 20Every true believer can have full assurance of salvation — grounded in God's objective promises and confirmed by the inward witness of the Holy Spirit.
1 John 5:13; John 6:37; Romans 8:16Those who die without Christ spend eternity separated from God in hell. Those who are redeemed spend eternity in the presence of God in heaven, in glorified bodies.
Matthew 25:46; John 14:1–3; Luke 16:26Man is the special creation of God, made in His image. Through sin, all have fallen — but by God's grace, all who believe in Christ are reconciled, forgiven, and restored.
Genesis 1:26–27; Romans 3:23; Ephesians 2:1–10Affiliation
Millcreek Church Baptist Church affiliates with the Southern Baptist Convention. For the full Baptist Faith & Message 2000, visit sbc.net.