Bethlehem Church's Statement of Faith is based on the Holy Bible
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.- We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be verbally inspired of God, inerrant in the original writings, and are the supreme and final authority of faith and life.
- We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and is true God and true man.
- We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned, incurring not only physical death, but also spiritual death (which is separation from God); and that all are sinners in thought, word and deed.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice that we might be justified by His blood.
- We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit, and thereby become the children of God.
- We believe that salvation is entirely and only by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that no works of any description can in any degree contribute to our salvation; but, on the other hand, that good works are expected of those who have been born again.
- We believe that all who have been saved are kept by God's power and are secure in Christ forever. We further believe it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which , however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh.
- We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ rose from the dead in the body in which He was crucified, that He ascended into Heaven, and that He lives in heaven today in the same body in which He arose from the grave.
- We believe in the personal, imminent, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus Christ, first, at the rapture, to catch up unto Himself all believers and then to return to earth with His resurrected saints to establish His Millennial Kingdom. We further believe that the Scriptures strongly imply that the Rapture will precede the Great Tribulation.
- We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved to be raised at the first resurrection to receive their glorified bodies and to be forever with the Lord; the lost to be raised at least 1,000 years later only to face the judgment of the Great White Throne and to be cast into the lake of fire forever.
- We believe that the Lord has ordained for this period of grace the ordinances of Believer's Baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper.
- We believe in the one true Church composed of all who have been born again through faith in Christ Jesus, and only of such; that the church is the body of Christ, all members being united by the Holy Spirit to Him who is the Head, and to each other.
