My family and I visited our local Holiness Baptist church yesterday morning. Our church doesn't have Sunday morning services, so we occasionally visit other churches near us for the experience, because someone invited us, or simply for fun.
The church happened to have a few extra pamphlets/Sunday school booklets so I managed to get one. Entitled
Holiness Heritage, the book is subtitled "The Church at Corinth", and it has an outline of church beliefs.
The book's lessons are listed as follows:
June 4: The Power of the Cross
June 11: The Curse of Carnality
June 18: Problems in the Church
June 25: Till Death Do Us Part
July 2: The Christian Liberty
July 9: Hair—The Long and Short of It
July 16: The Lord's Supper
July 23: The Spiritual Gifts
July 30: Christian Unity & Love
August 6: The Resurrection of the Dead
August 13: Liberty & Power
August 20: All Are Servants
August 27: The Blessing of Giving
Sponsored by the Independent Holiness Publishers, the book includes a "We Believe" section just before the "From the Editor" letter.
The following is copied directly from the Holiness publishers' "We Believe" section:
1) The Scriptures are inspired by God and are the Divine rule of faith and conduct. We use the King James Version of the Bible.
2) The Triune God consisting of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
3) The virgin birth, sinless life, death, physical resurrection and deity of the Lord Jesus Christ.
4) The fall of man in the Garden of Eden. Man has a sinful nature and is unable to save himself.
5) The salvation of man through faith in Jesus and His blood.
6) The ordinances of the Church are baptism in water and holy communion.
7) The baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance.
8) The Church as the redeemed and "called out" of God.
9) The Divinely called and scripturally ordained ministry.
10) Divine healing for the body as a provision of Calvary.
11) Sanctification of spirit, soul, and body.
12) The believer should live a life of holiness and separation from the world.
13) The second coming of Christ.
14) The millennial reign of Christ.
15) The final judgment.
While this list does not cover everything that we believe, this statement of faith covers the fundamental doctrines that we hold to be true.
I'm not entirely sure that this lays out the beliefs common among Holiness Baptists, but rather the fundamentals shared by churches under the Holiness umbrella.
