CHURCH OF CHRIST
Calvert City, Kentucky

THIS WE BELIEVE...

1. We believe the Bible is the complete, inerrant and inspired word of God.

2. We believe in man’s creation from the dust of the ground by God.

3. We believe Jesus Christ, God’s divine son, lived on the earth, died, was buried, and bodily resurrected from the dead.

4. We believe Christ originally established the church as one body and desires it to remain one.

5. We believe baptism is a burial in water for the remission of sins and is essential to membership in Christ’s church and therefore essential to salvation.

6. We believe the Lord’s Supper is to be observed by Christians on every first day of the week and only on the first day as part of God-approved worship.

7. We believe singing and making melody in one’s heart, without the use of manmade instruments, is the only acceptable way to worship God in song.

8. We believe marriage was established by God and designed to be a life-long union between a man and a woman.

9. We believe an innocent person with a living mate is permitted by God to divorce and remarry only when the other mate has committed fornication (Matthew 19:9).

10. We believe in making disciples of all nations by preaching the gospel, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching too obey everything Christ has commanded (Matthew 28:19).

11. We believe one must love the Lord his God with all his heart, and with all his soul and with all his mind and with all his strength (Mark 12:30).

12. We believe that one should love his neighbor as himself (Mark 12:31).

13. We believe God established male leadership and responsibility in the home and in the church.

14. We believe the Christian life is the best life both now and forever.

15. We believe the Bible emphasizes God’s grace and man’s obedience as integral components of man’s salvation.