Church Life: Our Quest for Biblical Christianity
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A High Regard for Scripture
The primitive church, says Luke, "continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine" (Acts 2:42). We, too, are devoted to a thoroughly Biblical emphasis, for the church lives, grows, and flourishes by the word of God, and languishes and dies without it. We believe that the Bible is God's final and complete revelation to man, given through the vehicle of Divine inspiration. Since it is God's own self-testimony, not merely man's opinion about God, Scripture is inerrant, for all of God's works are perfect. A conviction concerning the sufficiency of Scripture also characterizes the emphasis of Lexington Church. The word of God is a thorough furnisher for faith and life. Everything people need to know about God, the after-life, the nature of man, relationships, attitudes, decisions, ethical values, problem solving, life, and death is addressed comprehensively in Scripture. The Bible is, consequently, the ultimate authority for what Christians believe and how they behave. We are committed to hearing the gospel taught and proclaimed through the preaching of the word, seeing the gospel illustrated and displayed through the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and modeling the word of God in behavior through the mutual accountability of loving church discipline. We want to be "people of the word." |