Friendly Baptist Church therefore subscribes to and aligns our practices with the beliefs outlined in the doctrinal statement of "The Baptist Faith and Message 2000" (BF&M2K) as adopted by the SBC on June 14, 2000, affirming also the "Commentary on Article XVIII" of the BF&M2K.
Helpful Notes on Our Beliefs
You can download a printable edition of the BF&M2K HERE.
Helpful notes on Article I: Our conviction that the Bible is "God’s revelation of Himself to man" expressed as "truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter" (inerrant), extends from a much more elaborate explanation found in the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which you can find HERE.
Helpful notes on Article II: Our affirmation of the Trinity as reflected in our confidence that "the eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being," is illustrated well HERE.
Helpful notes on Article XVIII: Our understanding that sexual relationships outside of biblical marriage "have been declared illicit or perverse" by Scripture, wherein we are taught that "Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime," can be further examined in the expanded observations of The Nashville Statement and The Danvers Statement.
As stated in the Commentary on Article XVIII, we as a church do actively "resist any claims of legitimacy for sexual relationship that biblically have been declared illicit or perverse."
We maintain that: "Deviation from God's plan for marriage mars the image of God and distorts the oneness God intended in the sexual union between one woman and one man. The perversion of homosexuality defies even childbirth, since it negates natural conception."
All ministry activities of Friendly Baptist Church will align with practices affirming the above statements given in Our Beliefs and in Helpful Notes on Our Beliefs.
