What kind of church is New Hope?
We are a church built by our Lord Jesus Christ and led by the Holy Spirit. We are accountable to God for the stewardship of the gifts, talents and possessions He has blessed us with. We are a church that welcomes you and hopes you will feel “at home” here.
We are an Evangelical church. We believe in the Gospel or Good News of Jesus Christ as found in the Bible. Only in and through Jesus can we find peace and acceptance with God. There is no way we can get to God the Father without God the Son, Jesus.
We are a Bible church. The Bible is God’s infallible and holy Word. The Bible is God’s only inspired source for human instruction and guidance.
We are a Reformed church. We are products of the Protestant Reformation and our theological roots are found in the teachings of the great Reformers: Luther, Zwingli and Calvin. But we are NOT affiliated with any Reformed denomination.
We are a Baptist church. We come from a tradition within Protestantism that upholds the practice of baptizing believers only, the memorial nature of the Lord’s Supper and the autonomy of individual congregations and religious liberty of all believers from the state—this is Baptist theology.
We are members of the Baptist General Conference or Converge Worldwide, a denomination of Baptist churches that rose out of the Swedish Baptist movement in the upper Midwest during the mid to late 1800’s. Our denomination was never connected to any of the other Baptist denominations in America.
Are we catholic, orthodox, charismatic and/or conservative? In the strict sense of these terms (without capital letters), we are catholic because we believe in the universal church of Jesus Christ, but we are not Roman Catholic. And we are orthodox because we believe in the historical doctrinal positions developed by the early church on the Trinity, the deity and humanity of Jesus Christ, etc., but we are not Eastern Orthodox. And we are charismatic because we believe in the spiritual gifts of the Holy Spirit and their use in the church today, but we are not connected to the Charismatic Movement. And finally, we are conservative in our theological interpretation of the Bible and social/ethical issues.
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