Lakeland Bible Church

We believe …

• In the word-by-word inspiration and divine of authority of the original autographs of the Holy Scriptures.
• In one God, eternally existing in three persons; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• In the Lord Jesus Christ as true God and true man; His virgin birth, spotless humanity, vicarious death, bodily resurrection, present advocacy, and his personal, imminent, bodily, visible, pre-tribulation, and pre-millennial return for His Church.
• In the fall of man, resulting in his complete and universal separation from God and his need of Salvation.
• That the Lord Jesus shed His blood and died on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for the sins of the whole world.
• That salvation is entirely by the grace of God, by faith in Christ alone. That salvation is also a free and everlasting gift of God, entirely apart from works; that every person is responsible to receive salvation by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; that a soul once saved can never be lost.
• That the Holy Spirit regenerates with divine life and personally indwells every believer upon his faith in Christ.
• In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved.
• In the unending life of the saved with the Lord, and the unending punishment of the unsaved.
• In the responsibility of each believer, motivated by the love of Christ and empowered by the Holy spirit, to witness for Christ and to live sacrificially for the proclamation of the Gospel into all the world.
• In the ritual of believers baptism by immersion and in the ritual of communion.

Lakeland Bible Church is non-denominational. Our members come from a variety of church backgrounds or no background at all. We do not solicit people for membership like traditional churches but instead encourage those who believe as we do to join voluntarily with us in serving the true and living God. We are conservative, free grace, Bible believing evangelicals, neither charismatic nor ecumenical. Please see the Doctrinal Summary for a more thorough explanation of our beliefs.