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Who are the Baptists? |
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Ainon Baptist Church Bryncoch |
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We follow Jesus as individuals. As Baptists, we also emphasise the
significance of the gathered Church. Our understanding of church is not as
hierarchy or organisation, but essentially as community in Christ, a
Gospel people called to be … |
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Five Core Values
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Confronting evil, injustice and hypocrisy. Challenging worldly concepts of
power, wealth, status and security. |
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A Prophetic Community |
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Transcending barriers of gender, language, race, class, age and culture.
Identifying with those who are rejected, deprived and powerless. |
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An Inclusive Community |
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Accepting vulnerability and the necessity of sacrifice. Seeking to reflect
the generous, life-giving nature of God. |
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A Sacrificial Community |
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Demonstrating in word or action God's forgiving and healing love.
themselves. |
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A Missionary Community |
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Engaging in worship and prayer which inspire and under gird all we are and
do. Exploring and expressing what it means to live together as the people
of God, obeying his Word and following Christ in the whole of daily life. |
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A Worshipping Community |
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The Basis of the Baptist Union is:
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That our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh, is the
sole and absolute authority in all matters pertaining to faith and
practice, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and that each Church has
liberty, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to interpret and
administer His laws.
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That Christian Baptism is the immersion in water into the Name of the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, of those who have professed
repentance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ who 'died for
our sins according to the Scriptures; was buried, and rose again the third
day'.
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That it is the duty of every disciple to bear personal witness to the
Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to take part in the evangelisation of the
world. |
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Declaration of Principle
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From the BUGB publication '5 Core Values for a Gospel People' |
