West Bowdoin Baptist Church

A Christ-Centered Family Welcome

Our Beliefs

Our Church Covenant

Having been led by the Spirit of God to profess our faith in Jesus Christ, and having been baptized in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do solemnly and joyfully affirm our covenant with God and with each other.

We pledge to serve Jesus Christ in the fellowship of this congregation. We shall endeavor to love one another, to remember one another in. prayer, to share each other's joys, and to sustain each other in times of distress. We aspire to be a fellowship of the concerned where the lost may find Jesus Christ, sinners may find pardon, seekers may find meaning for their lives, where all who come may find welcome. We shall strive to be responsible church members through faithful attendance, study, giving, and service. 

We shall seek to be obedient to Jesus Christ in our daily living. Within our homes, in our labor, and while at leisure, we shall strive for attitudes and actions which reflect God's Spirit working through us. Believing that our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, we shall endeavor to avoid experiences and habits, which defile the body and hinder our witness.

Bound together in a fellowship of faith with all who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we shall pray and labor for a spirit of unity among all Christians.

Believing that our call to be a church is a call to witness in the world, we dedicate anew as servants of the Lord of all life. Whenever men are in bondage to ignorance, poverty, fear, or prejudice, we shall strive for justice, freedom, dignity, and peace. Whenever men are separated by barriers of hostility and distrust, we shall be ministers of God's reconciling love. As we pledge our support to the work of our mission­aries throughout the world, we commit ourselves to the mission to which God calls us all.

Acknowledging our human frailties and ever seeking forgiveness, we profess our need of the Holy Spirit, and commit our lives to Jesus Christ, and through Him to the care, the judgment, the deliverance, and the mercy of Almighty God.


The Apostle's Creed is an Historic Expression of Faith

I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
    Maker of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;

Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
    born of the Virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, dead, and buried.

The third day He rose from the dead.

He ascended into heaven
    and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
    from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic church,
    the communion of saints,
    the forgiveness of sins,
    the resurrection of the body,
    and the life everlasting.

Amen.

This creed is called the Apostles' Creed not because it was produced by the apostles themselves but because it contains a brief summary of their teachings. It sets forth their doctrine in unique clarity, in unsurpassable brevity, in beautiful order, and with liturgical solemnity. In its present form it is dated no later than the fourth century. More than any other Christian creed, it may justly be called an ecumenical symbol of faith.

 

John 5:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, . . . .