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When you come to church, one should expect, yea demand, that the truth be taught and preached. The church is the pillar, the ground, the one foundation which holds up God's truth in this world. It is the church that is to preserve, preach, portray, practice, and protect the truth in order that God's work will continue to prosper and be blessed mightily of the Lord.
By Dean Robinson
"But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." (1 Timothy 3:15)
The plain teaching of all Scripture establishes the fact that believers in the Lord are commanded of Christ to accept all of His truth. We are not to add, dilute, edit, or change it in any way. The whole New Testament echoes the teaching of Christ that there is one truth and God's people should be united in accepting it. But as any honest person will readily admit this is not the case. We are living in a day and age where there is much debate, confusion, disagreement, and controversy over the truth.
We have literally hundreds of churches of different denominations, groups, and organizations all proclaiming to believe in different creeds and beliefs and emphasizing conflicting doctrines while at the same time declaring it doesn't make any difference what a person believes. Religion has made itself look ridiculous by making the preposterous claim that all the hundreds of competing churches with their biased beliefs, contradicting claims, and diverse doctrines are really one religion. Many argue that all religions and churches are equally good and that even though we may be taking different roads, we are all bound for the same place. But simple logic should tell you that these churches holding to beliefs and doctrines that contradict each other cannot all be true. Such differences and diversity has caused much chaos and confusion concerning the truth of the Word of God. Therefore we are brought face to Ace with the question, which church is the one that is declaring the truth? Which church is right? Which are wrong? How can I know the true church?
The quickest way to receive an answer to these questions we must look to one place. Amidst all of the chaos and confusion that exists among the hundreds of conflicting religions, there exists only one source of information that is without error -- the inspired Word of God. This is all we can turn to. Man can be wrong, even churches can be wrong; only God's Word stands without error and this is where we must look.
An Independent Baptist Church is the right church because of what she believes the Bible teaches on the following four truths:
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