What We Believe Baptist Can Still Mean

• generous, fun, inclusive, thoughtful, respectful, nice, non-judgmental
• still loving to eat together ... with a particular fondness for desserts
• celebrating the highly particular contexts of local churches
  (autonomy of the local church)
• valuing each person's individual conversation with God and with that person's faith tradition
  (soul competency)
• supporting the ministry of each Christian
  (priesthood of all believers)
• working for freedom for religions from the state within faithful participation in the political process
  (separation of church and state)
• committed to baptizing those who can articulate what they know of themselves in relationship to all they know of God
  (believer's baptism)
• worshipping regularly and practicing worship as a way of life
• affirming the priority of Scripture
• acknowledging sin and God's ongoing work of redeeming
• appreciating and sharing the story of Jesus
• not automatically of any particular social, theological or political perspective

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