About Us

The Monroe Baptist Association affirms the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 as our confessional statement. It covers our beliefs on Scripture, God, salvation, the church, last things, and more.

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We believe the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.

There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being — the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.

Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. In its broadest sense, salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord.

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel, observing the two ordinances of Christ — baptism and the Lord's Supper — and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The association exists to serve and strengthen these local congregations.

God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world to its appropriate end. Jesus Christ will return personally and visibly in glory to the earth. The dead will be raised; and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to Hell; the righteous in their resurrected and glorified bodies will receive their reward and will dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.