What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of Tolar Baptist Church 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.

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God.
That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written, and the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct - 2 Timothy 3:16

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ. His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory. In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection. In His triumphant ascension and coming return.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity, and in the personality of the Holy Spirit. Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgement. Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ, Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him.

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God. By the sin of disobedience he fell from that state, and all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement. That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death.

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God through faith (Eph. 2:8)

• Admitting we are broken people and have been separated from God due to our sin (Rom. 2:23)
• Believing, wholeheartedly, that Jesus died on the cross for our sin and that he rose again three days later; dying ONCE for ALL (Rom. 5:8, Rom. 10:9-10) 
• Confessing that Jesus is Lord and asking Him to be Lord of our life, we will be saved (Rom. 10:9-10)