What We're About

The Baptist Ministers Conference of Northern Virginia and Vicinity is composed of Pastors, Ordained Clergy and Duly Licensed Ministers of the Baptist Churches of Northern Virginia and Vicinity. We serve as a conduit for cutting edge ministry in the region. Our goal is to provide Clergy unique ministry tools, relevant teachings, and relationship building that aids in serving effectively in 21st century ministry. Together we endeavor to validate the tenets of our faith, which is built upon a biblical foundation, and is the source of our hope for guiding Baptist denominational enterprises. We strengthen each other in order to make a greater commitment to our goal, which is to remain in compliance with our REDEEMER’S Great Commission.

What We Believe

Statement of Faith

One God who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

We believe in one only true and living God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, who is infinite, eternal, unchanging, and is revealed too us as the Father, the Head of the Trinity, into whose hands the Kingdom shall finally be given up.

We believe in God, the Son, who is the promised Messiah of the Old Testament, who was born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Spirit, given to reveal God the Father; who died to redeem man, rose from the dead; who is now seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for all believers; and who will one day return in a visible, personal, and bodily form as the glorified Lord of lords and Judge of all mankind to receive His Church unto Himself at a time the Father has reserved to Himself alone.

We believe in God, the Holy Spirit, a person sent from God the Father to convict the world of sin, to regenerate and cleanse believers from sin, to teach, guide, strengthen and perfect every believer.

We believe God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, are three in one.

The Sinful Nature of Man

We believe that man was created in the image of God, but that being tempted by Satan, he sinned, and since that time all men have been born in sin. The original tempter was Satan, the personal evil, who with his angels has been working iniquity among the nations of the world. Sin is nonconformity to the will of God, which leads to physical and spiritual death and eternal separation from God in a physical Hell that will one day deliver its inhabitants up for final judgment and ultimately into the Lake of Fire.

Christ our Atonement

We believe that God provided a way for our reconciliation to Him by ransom from our sin and that the way provided is Jesus Christ. Jesus atoned for our sins with His death on the cross, and through His blood atonement, we become joint heirs with Christ, thereby escaping condemnation and the wrath of God. Christ’s atonement is applied to the believer by the grace of God through the faith of man in the person and finished work of Jesus Christ.

Christ our Savior

We believe that every individual is condemned through their sins and without Jesus Christ, salvation is impossible. We believe for anyone to be delivered from condemnation, they must of a free will accept the gospel of Jesus Christ as Savior. We believe that those who do accept Him as Savior are eternally secure. We further believe that each believer is obligated to present the gospel to all mankind.

The Scriptures

We believe that the Bible is the Word of God and is the absolute authority in determining the faith and practice of God’s people. We affirm that the sixty-six books of the Bible are inerrant, divinely and uniquely inspired, and are given to mankind written as they were inspired by the Spirit of God. These Scriptures are divinely intended for personal study through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.