What We Believe

STATEMENT OF FAITH

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

We believe the Holy Scriptures to be God’s spoken, inspired words, authoritative, and without error in the original manuscripts. We further believe that the scriptures of both the Old and New Testaments are designed for our practical instruction in faith and conduct.
(2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:21)

THE TRINITY

We believe that the Trinity eternally exists in three persons: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit; each person is fully God, and there is one God.
(Deuteronomy 6:4; Genesis 1:26; Matthew 28:19)

THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, came into the world that He might manifest God to men, fulfill prophecy, and become the Redeemer of a lost world. He was born of the Virgin Mary, and received a human body with a sinless human nature without ceasing to be God.
(Luke 1:30-35; John 1:1, 14, 18; Hebrews 4:15; Philippians 2:5-11)

We believe that, in infinite love for the lost, He voluntarily accepted His Father’s will and became the divinely provided sacrificial Lamb and took away the world’s sins.
(Romans 3:25-31; 2 Corinthians 5:14; Hebrews 10:5-14)

We believe He rose from the dead in the same body, though glorified, in which He had lived and died and that His resurrected body is the pattern of the body that ultimately will be given to all believers.
(John 20:20; Philippians 3:20-21)

We believe that on departing earth, He was accepted by His Father and that His acceptance is a final assurance to us that His redeeming work was perfectly accomplished.
(Hebrews 1:3​)

We believe that He became head over all things to the church, which is His body, and in this ministry, He does not cease to intercede and advocate for the saved.
(Luke 1:35; 1 Corinthians 15:1-3; Ephesians 1:23; Philippians 2:6-8; 2 Timothy 2:5; 1 John 2:1-2)

THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, dwells in every believer immediately after
placing his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He provides the power to live the Christian life.
(Romans 5:5; 8:1-9; Galatians 5:16-25)
We believe that every believer receives grace from God in the form of a spiritual gift(s), which enables
him to function as a member of the body of Christ for the express purpose of edifying the body.
(Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 12:7; Ephesians 4:7)

THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN

We believe that Satan, the devil, is the prince of demons and the declared adversary of God and man. However, when the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross, He limited the devil’s power and guaranteed the ultimate triumph of God.
(Ephesians 2:2; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 20:10; Colossians 2:13-15)

SALVATION

We believe that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless born again spiritually and that the new birth of the believer comes only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We believe, also, that our redemption has been accomplished by the grace of God, an unmerited gift given in love by God and not the result of any human works.
(John 3:17-18; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; Romans 4:4-5)

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THE RETURN OF CHRIST

We believe in the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth as He went in person in the clouds with power and great glory to establish His millennial kingdom. The Lord Jesus Christ will return to receive to Himself both those alive at His coming and all who have previously died in Jesus Christ. We focus on the certainty of His return, not the timing.
(1 Thessalonians 4:13-17; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 3:10)

ETERNAL STATE

We believe that at death, the spirits and souls of those who have trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation pass immediately into His presence and remain in conscious bliss until the resurrection of the glorified body when Christ comes for His own. After which the soul and body reunited shall be associated with Him forever in glory. All those who rejected Jesus Christ will be separated from God to endure His eternal wrath forever.
(2 Corinthians 5:8; Revelation 20:11-15; 21:1-27)

RESPONSIBILITY OF BELIEVERS

We believe that all believers should seek to walk by the Spirit, separating themselves from worldly practices and witnessing by life and by word the truths of the Holy Scripture.
(Romans 12:1; Galatians 5:16, 25; 2 Corinthians 5:9-17)

We believe that all believers will be judged at the judgment seat of Christ and rewarded based on their faithful obedience to Him in this life.
(1 Corinthians 3:10-17)

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Calvary Baptist Church of Plainfield

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324 Monroe Avenue
Plainfield, NJ, 07063

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(908) 561-5187