What is a Reformed Baptist?

Being a Reformed Baptist means that we seek to build our faith and practice on the teaching of Holy Scripture as it has been faithfully understood and confessed by the historic Christian church.

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We believe that Christianity does not begin with us as individuals or as a local church. For two thousand years, Christ has been preserving the truths of Christianity through his church, "the pillar and buttress of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15). We trust Jesus’s promise that his Holy Spirit would guide the church into all truth (John 16:13). While Scripture alone is our final and infallible authority, we believe the Holy Spirit led the historic church in the discernment and careful articulation of sound doctrine as revealed in the Holy Scriptures.

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As Reformed Baptists, we are heirs of the Protestant Reformation, embracing the call to return to the authority of Scripture alone and the centrality of the gospel. We recognize that the Reformers themselves were seeking to recover the truth that had been lost, rather than invent something new. We therefore look to the creeds and confessions of the church as faithful summaries and articulations of biblical truth—not as authorities equal to Scripture, but as tested guides that help us understand God's Word in communion with believers across the centuries.

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Being Baptist means we are convinced that the Bible teaches believer's baptism and a church composed of those who personally confess faith in Jesus Christ and walk in accordance with that profession. Being Reformed means we share in the rich theological heritage of the Reformation and gladly confess the historic doctrines of the Christian faith as they have been preserved and articulated through the centuries.

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We are confessional Reformed Baptists, which means that we subscribe to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith as our doctrinal statement. This document is a product of the Protestant Reformation, and we believe it most accurately reflects the teaching of Holy Scriptures as understood by the historic Christian church.