Rosedale Baptist Church

Preamble:
Reposing our faith solely in the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation, (Ephesians 2:8,9,10), and believing in the teachings and practices of the Baptists and in those great distinctive principles for which they have stood, namely:

1. The preeminence of Christ as our divine Lord and Master.
2. The supreme authority of the Bible and its sufficiency as our only rule of faith and practice.
3. The incarnation, as given in John’s Gospel and the Virgin Birth as given in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and supported by the Gospel of Mark, also the sacrificial death, burial and the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ
4. The right of the private interpretation of the Scriptures and the competency of the individual Soul to directly approach the Throne of Grace of God in prayer.
5. The absolute separation of Church and state.
6. A regenerate Church Membership. (John 3:3)
7. The complete independence of the local Church and its interdependence in the associated fellowship with other Baptist Churches in like faith and order.
8. The beautiful, symbolic ordinance of Believer’s baptism in obedience to the command of Christ. (Mathew 28:19, 20)
9. The solemn obligation of majority rule, guaranteeing equal rights to all and special privileges to none.
10. The Spiritual unity of all believers, for which the Master so earnestly prayed.
11. A world wide program of missions and evangelism in obedience to the Great Commission of Jesus.
12. The belief of a Godly marriage, one man to one woman, united in Christ.
13. All preching and teaching shall be from the Authorized King James Version of God’s Word.

We therefore band ourselves together as a body of baptized believers (by immersion) in Jesus Christ and adopt for our government plan of worship and service the following articles:

ARTICLE 1. NAME
This Church shall be called the Rosedale Baptist Church, of Rosedale, Indiana.