What we believe guides all that we do.
What We Believe
We affirm the Holy Bible as the inspired Word of God and the basis for our beliefs. In addition, the First Baptist Church of Mascoutah subscribes to the doctrinal statement of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 as adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000. The Baptist Faith and Message 2000 does not exhaust the extent of our faith.
Furthermore, we believe that God wonderfully and immutably creates each person as either male or female, and that these two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen. 1:26-27). Rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.
The Bible itself is the sole and final source of all we believe.