What We Believe

Each community of faith has a set of beliefs that provide the foundation for its worship, practices and ideas about God, the church and the world. We the United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church are no different. We too are rooted and grounded in our history, heritage and faith as Baptists, but we also recognize our place in the larger witness of the Christian Church. Below you will find what our church believes, expressed in what Baptists refer to as Articles of Faith.  


The Articles of Faith


I. THE SCRIPTURES


II. THE TRUE GOD


III. THE FALL OF MAN


IV. THE WAY OF SALVATION


V. JUSTICIFICATION


VI. THE FREENESS OF SALVATION


VII. REGENERATION


VII. REPENTANCE AND FAITH


IX. GOD'S PURPOSE OF GRACE


X. SANCTIFICATION


XI. PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS


XII. THE LAW AND GOSPEL


XIII. A GOSPEL CHURCH


XIV. BAPTISM AND THE LORD'S SUPPER


XV. THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH


XVI. CIVIL GOVERNMENT


XVII. RIGHTEOUS AND WICKED


XVIII. THE WORLD TO COME