Houston Heritage Baptist Institute
What We Believe
DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
Romans 8.35-39; Hebrews 10.39; 1 Peter 1.5
Authority
We believe the authority to administer spiritual matters including teaching,
belongs to the local church.
The Heritage Baptist Institute is operated as a teaching ministry of Conroe Grace Missionary Baptist Church of Conroe
The church owns and governs the operations of the school.
All matters concerning teachers, subjects and policies are under the authority of the church.
School activity is under direct oversight of a board of trustees elected by the church.
We believe in
the plenary verbal inspiration and inerrancy
of the whole Bible as originally written,
and that it is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.
Psalm 119.160 2 Timothy 3.16-17
We believe in the personal triune God;
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
equal in Divine perfection.
Matthew 28.19
We believe in
the Genesis account of creation.
We believe
Satan is a fallen angel,
the archenemy of God and man.
The unholy god of this world,
and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.
Isaiah 14.12-15 Ezekiel 28.11-19
Mathew 25.41 2 Corinthians 4.4 Ephesians 6.10-17 Revelation 20.10
We believe in
the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.
Matthew 1.10-20 2 Corinthians 5.21 1 Peter 2.22
We believe in
the deity of Jesus Christ.
John 10.30 John 1.4-5,8 2 Corinthians 5.19
We believe
the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator
for Jesus Christ in His churches.
Luke 24.49 John 14.16-17 Acts 1.4-5,8 Acts 2.1-4
We believe that
miraculous spiritual gifts were done away
when the Bible was completed,
and that the abiding spiritual gifts are faith, hope and love.
1 Corinthians 12 1 Corinthians 13 1 Corinthians 14
We believe
man was created in the image of God
and lived in innocence until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state,
the result being that all mankind are sinners.
We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was
substitutionary for all mankind,
and is efficacious only to those who believe.
Isaiah 53.6 Hebrews 2.9 1 Peter 2.24 1 Peter 3.18 2 Peter 3.9 1 John 2.2
We believe in
the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ
and the bodily resurrection of His saints.
Matthew 28.1-7 Acts 1.9-11 1 Corinthians 15.42-50 1 Thessalonians 4.13-18
We believe in
the pre-millennial, personal, bodily return of Christ
as the crowning event of the Gentile age.
This event will include the resurrection of the righteous,
and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous to eternal punishment in the lake of fire.
John 14.1-6 1 Thessalonians 4.13-18 2 Thessalonians 2.8 Revelation 19 Revelation 20.4-6,11,15, Revelation 21.8
We believe that
the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ,
and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
Luke 13.3,5 John 3.16,18 Acts 20.21
Romans 6.23 Ephesians 2.8-9
and that Holy Spirit convicts sinners,
regenerates, seals, secures and indwells every believer.
John 3.6 John 16.8-9 Romans 8.9-11 1 Corinthians 6.19-20 Ephesians 4.30 Titus 3.5
We believe
all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him
and shall not perish.
John 3.36 John 5.24 John 10.27-30
We believe
God deals with believers as His children
and the He chastises the disobedient
and rewards the obedient.
Matthew 16.27 Matthew 25.14-23 John 1.12 Hebrews 12.5-11 2 John 8 Revelation 22.12
We believe
Jesus Christ established His church
during His ministry on earth
and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers,
in covenant relationship to carry out the commission of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and each church is an independent, self-governing body,
and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it.
We believe
Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to New Testament churches only,
and promised the perpetuity of His churches.
Matthew 4.18-22 Matthew 16.18 Matthew 18.15-18
Matthew 28.19-20 Mark 1.14-20 John 1.35-51 Ephesians 3.21
We believe
there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord’s churches:
Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water,
administered by the authority of a New Testament church
in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance,
restricted to members of the church observing the ordinance.
Matthew 28.19-20 Acts 8.12,38 Romans 6.4 1 Corinthians 5.11-13 1 Corinthians 11.1-2 1 Corinthians 17.20,26
We believe
there are two divinely appointed offices in a church,
pastor and deacons,
to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and Timothy.
We believe
all associations, fellowships and committees
are, and properly should be, servants of and under control of, the churches.
Matthew 20.25-28
We believe in
the complete separation of church and state.
Matthew 22.21
and affirm our belief in civil obedience unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures
