What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of First Baptist Church of Enumclaw based on the foundational truths taught in the bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.

The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is the record of God's revelation of Himself to man.  It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture of error, for its matter.

There is one and only one living and true God.  The eternal God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image, and is the crowning work of His creation.  By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race.  The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every man possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer.  In its broadest sense, salvation includes regeneration, sanctification, and glorification.

Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners.  All true believers endure to the end.  Those who God has accepted in Christ, and are sanctified by His Spirit, will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel and is seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth.  This church is an autonomous body.  The New Testament speaks also of the church as the body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages.