God

“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.” Deuteronomy 7:9

We believe in one God who exists in three distinct persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). We believe that Jesus Christ is the second member of the Trinity (the Son of God) who became the Savior of the lost world.

Jesus is the Son of God

"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.'" John 14:6

Jesus is the reason for everything we do. We believe that Jesus was born of a virgin as the Son of God. We believe that Jesus was crucified for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity and that He rose from the dead three days later. Jesus was both fully man and fully God. While Jesus was a prophet, a teacher and a good man, He is also the supernatural Son of God.

Holy Spirit

"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8

While forgiveness comes from our relationship with Jesus, we believe that our relationship with the Holy Spirit provides us the power to live our lives focused on Jesus. Ceebtsheej Baptist Church believes in the Holy Spirit as the third member of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is our best friend, our guide, our comforter and our strength. We believe that our lives can be filled with the Holy Spirit. Lives lived this way are evidenced by fruit of the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit found in scripture.

The Bible is the Word of God

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16

The Bible is the inspired Word of God and that men were moved by the Spirit to write words of scripture. Therefore, the Bible is without error. It is both our guidebook for practical living and is our spiritual communication from God that provides us strength. The Bible is the inerrant, complete, inspired and unchanging word of God.

Mankind

"And God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." Genesis 1:26

We believe that man was created in the image of God to have fellowship with Him, but became alienated from that relationship through sinful disobediance. As a result, man is totally incapable of coming back into a right relationship with God by his own effort.

A Decision to Follow Jesus Changes Everything

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!" 2 Corinthians 5:17
"For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." Matthew 16:25

In a culture that sees various methods of avenues to be connected to God, Ceebtsheej Baptist Church believes that Jesus is the only way to access forgiveness and eternal life in God. We believe that every person is born into sin; believing in and accepting the grace of Jesus is the only way to gain forgiveness from sin. Every person can be forgiven and born again and should live for Christ and not for himself. By obediance to the Word and daily yielding to the Spirit, every believer will mature and become conformed to the image of Christ.

Salvation

"For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9

We believe that the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross provides the sole basis for the forgiveness of sins. Therefore, salvation only occurs when a person places their faith in the death and ressurrection of Christ as the sufficient payment of his sin.

Marriage

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Genesis 2:24

We believe marriage is the uniting of one natural-born biological male and one natural-born biological female in a single exclusive, and loving union as delineated in the Scriptures. It is God's unique gift that exists to foster the sole manner for holy, intimate, and sexual companionship; to serve as an illustration of the relationship between Christ and His church; and to create and raise children in the faith.

Baptism and the Lord's Supper

"Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4

"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes." 1 Corinthians 11:26

Christian baptistm is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. It is an act of obediance symbolizing the believer's faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Christ Jesus. It is a testimony to his faith in the final ressurection of the dead. Being a church ordinace, it is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord's Supper.

The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obediance whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of the Redeemer and anticipate His second coming.

Our Accountability

Ceebtsheej Baptist Church is governed by a Leadership Board but led by a Pastoral Staff. The Leadership Board is made up of lay leaders within Ceebtsheej Baptist Church. We are partners with the HBNA (Hmong Baptist National Association), Apalachee Baptist Association, and SBC (Southern Baptist Convention). Through our partners we work with over 10,000 missionaries in local and global missions projects with the North American Mission Board and International Mission Board.