Tabernacle Baptist Church of Litchfield, NH

An Independent Fundamental Baptist Church

Who We Are:

There are many ways to attempt to define who we are and what we believe.  The phrase Independent Fundamental Baptist is one of them.  Each of the three words in this phrase is used specifically to define certain aspects of what we believe.

As Baptists, we are first and foremost people of the Bible.  It is the one and only source and authority for all we believe.  An acrostic can be made from the word “BAPTISTS” to define a set of doctrines known as the Baptist Distinctives.  These doctrines are:

• Biblical Authority
• Autonomy of the Local Church
• Priesthood of the Believer
• Two Church Ordinances (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper)
• Individual Soul Liberty
• Saved and Baptized Church Membership
• Two Church Offices (Pastor and Deacon)
• Separation of Church and State

As Fundamentalists, we adhere to the 14 Fundamentals of the Faith which were put forth in the early part of the 20^th Century in answer to the modernist movement. They are:

• inspiration of the Bible
• depravity of man
• redemption through Christ's blood
• true church made up only of believers
• coming of the Lord bodily to set up His reign
• the Trinity
• fall of Adam
• need of the new birth
• full deliverance from guilt at salvation
• assurance of salvation
• centrality of Christ in the Bible
• walk after the Spirit
• resurrection of both believers and unbelievers
• ripening of the present age for judgment

As Independents, we believe in a self-governing, self-propagating church free from any control (denomination, convention, association, etc.) outside of our own membership.