ACCESS SERMONS EASILY at https://sgbcmodesto.com/Sermons/ Sunday School for all ages: 9:30 AM
Sunday Worship: 10:45 AM
Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer: 6:30 PM
Wednesday AWANA: 6:30 PM
Located in Modesto CA, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church is a short drive west from Highway 99, out in the orchards of Wood Colony. Our pastor is Johnnie Sloan, and our retired pastor, William Heinrich, is an active an
d contributing member. We'd love to welcome you! We are a conservative Regular Baptist Church. We are Calvinistic in belief. We are a warm loving family. We attempt to ground all we do in Scripture expositionally preached and taught. We worship the Triune God of the Bible and seek bring Him honor and glory. We Believe and Teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We hold to the London Baptist Confession of 1689, and the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation:
THESIS ONE: SOLA SCRIPTURA
We reaffirm the inerrant Scripture to be the sole source of written divine revelation, which alone can bind the conscience. The Bible alone teaches all that is necessary for our salvation from sin and is the standard by which all Christian behavior must be measured. We deny that any creed, council or individual may bind a Christian's conscience, that the Holy Spirit speaks independently of or contrary to what is set forth in the Bible, or that personal spiritual experience can ever be a vehicle of revelation. THESIS TWO: SOLUS CHRISTUS
We reaffirm that our salvation is accomplished by the mediatorial work of the historical Christ alone. His sinless life and substitutionary atonement alone are sufficient for our justification and reconciliation to the Father. We deny that the gospel is preached if Christ's substitutionary work is not declared and faith in Christ is not the sole source of our righteousness before a Holy God. THESIS THREE: SOLA GRATIA
We reaffirm that in salvation we are rescued from God's wrath by his grace alone. It is the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that brings us to Christ by releasing us from our bo***ge to sin and raising us from spiritual death to spiritual life. We deny that salvation is in any sense a human work. Human methods, techniques or strategies by themselves cannot accomplish this transformation. Faith is not produced by our unregenerated human nature. THESIS FOUR: SOLA FIDE
We reaffirm that justification is by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone. In justification Christ's righteousness is imputed to us as the only possible satisfaction of God's perfect justice. We deny that justification rests on any merit to be found in us, or upon the grounds of an infusion of Christ's righteousness in us, or that an institution claiming to be a church that denies or condemns sola fide can be recognized as a legitimate church. THESIS FIVE: SOLI DEO GLORIA
We reaffirm that because salvation is of God and has been accomplished by God, it is for God's glory and that we must glorify him always. We must live our entire lives before the face of God, under the authority of God and for his glory alone. We deny that we can properly glorify God if our worship is confused with entertainment, if we neglect either Law or Gospel in our preaching, or if self-improvement, self-esteem or self-fulfillment are allowed to become alternatives to the gospel.
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