08/25/2026
A note of clarification about our beliefs: While we hold to the New Hampshire Confession Of Faith, it doesn't address what is commonly called Covenant or Dispensational theology (which is far more than a belief on how the end of time will occur). For this reason, we want to clarify our position. Our pastors hold and therefore teach what is commonly called Covenant Theology. What is that? It is the belief that God has always related to His people by covenant, a binding relationship that He initiates and defines, because the distance between the Creator and His creatures is too great for us to close on our own.
This way of relating to His people flows from something even more fundamental: an eternal covenant transaction between the Father and the Son concerning the redemption of His people (those God has chosen for salvation), settled before the world began (2 Timothy 1:9; Titus 1:2). This eternal covenant wasn't a response to Adam's sin. God determined it from eternity, before creation itself. When Adam's sin broke humanity's relationship with God, the Lord graciously brought this eternal purpose into history as the covenant of grace. He therefore freely offers life and salvation to sinners through Jesus Christ, requiring faith in Him, and He promises the Holy Spirit to all whom He has chosen for eternal life, causing them to willing turn from their sin and believe the good news of Jesus Christ. The covenant of grace, in other words, is the historical unfolding of an eternal decree, not a plan God improvised after the fact.
God began revealing this to Adam in the first gospel promise (Genesis 3:15), then continued unfolding it by further steps throughout the Old Testament, until it was fully disclosed in the New Testament (Hebrews 1:1). Every sinner who has ever been saved, in every age, has obtained life only through the grace of Jesus Christ (The Son), the mediator of this eternal covenant (Hebrews 11:6, 13; Romans 4:1-2; Acts 4:12; John 8:56).
This is the historic confession of the Particular Baptists who came before us and set forth in the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, chapter 7. This is our understanding of Scripture, and for that reason, while we love and respect our brothers and sisters who hold a different view, we reject what is commonly called Dispensationalism. This has also been added to our Church Website under our belief's tab.
