What We Believe

The following are the core beliefs of Crossroads Baptist Church - MO based on the foundational truths taught in the Bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.

We believe that the Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God. We believe it is inerrant, infallible and eternal. It is the complete revelation of God's will to man for salvation. It is the absolute rule of faith and practice for the Christian life. We believe that the King James Bible is the preserved Word of God to English speaking people.

There is one eternally existing God who has three distinct persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. He is the creator of all that exists, both visible and invisible, and is therefore worthy of all glory and praise.  God is perfect in love, power, holiness, goodness, knowledge, wisdom,  justice, and mercy. He is unchangeable and therefore is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ; the miracle of His conception by the Holy Spirit; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His substitutionary death on the cross; His bodily resurrection; His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal, imminent return.

Humans, both male and female, were created in God's image for His glory. The first humans, Adam and Eve, were created without sin and appointed as caretakers of the rest of God's creations.

When Adam and Eve chose not to obey God, they sinned. This caused them to fall out of fellowship with God, and fractured all of creation ever since that time. Due to man's sin and rebellion against God, every man has incurred spiritual death, which is separation from God, and physical death as a consequence. All people are sinners by nature and by practice and therefore, all people need to be saved.

Jesus Christ came to reconcile us with God. He lived a life without sin and willingly died on the cross to pay the penalty for our transgressions. God raised him from the dead and now, by grace, offers as a free gift of eternal life to all who repent of their sins and trust Christ, by faith, as their Lord and Savior. That is why salvation can be found in Christ alone.

The indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of every believer happens at the moment of salvation. The Person of the Holy Spirit enables and empowers believers to live for God and His glory.

The Church is meant to be the visible body of Christ, sent into the world to glorify God and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ is returning one day to judge both the living and the dead and to usher in the fullness of God's kingdom on earth.  Those who are in the right relationship with God will enter the eternal blessing of Heaven; those who have rejected God's forgiveness offered through Jesus Christ will enter into everlasting punishment.