What We Believe

At Victory, we appreciate our heritage as Free Will Baptists and want to share the history of our denomination with you. But our first allegiance is to Christ and His worldwide Kingdom. We wish to cooperate with other groups who share our faith and zeal. We agree with the ancient theologian who said, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, diversity; in all things, charity.”

Many of our members come from other denominational backgrounds. We don’t demand conformity to every detail of Free Will Baptist interpretation, but we do anticipate basic agreement with the following “Articles of Faith” printed in A Treatise of the Faith and Practices of the Original Free Will Baptists, published by the Executive Office of the National Association of Free Will Baptists:

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and are our infallible rule of faith and practice.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and are our infallible rule of faith and practice.

The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and are our infallible rule of faith and practice.

The Scriptures assign to the Holy Spirit all the attributes of God.

God exercises a wide and benevolent providence over all beings and all things by maintaining the constitution and laws of nature. He also performs special acts, not otherwise provided for, as the highest welfare of men requires.

Man was created innocent, but by disobedience fell into a state of sin and condemnation. His posterity, therefore, inherits a fallen nature of such tendencies that all who come to years of accountability, sin and become guilty before God.

The Son of God by His incarnation, life, sufferings, death, and resurrection effected for all a redemption from sin that is full and free, and is the ground of salvation by faith.

The conditions of salvation are: (1) Repentance of sin or sincere sorrow for sin and hearty renunciation of it. (2) Faith or the unreserved committal of one’s self to Christ as Savior and Lord with purpose to love and obey Him in all things. In the exercise of saving faith, the soul is renewed by the Holy Spirit, freed from the dominion of sin, and becomes a child of God. (3) Continuance in faith and obedience unto death.

God determined from the beginning to save all who should comply with the conditions of salvation. Hence by faith in Christ men become His elect.

The human will is free and self-controlled, having power to yield to the influence of the truth and the Spirit, or to resist them and perish.

God desires the salvation of all, the Gospel invites all, the Holy Spirit strives with all, and whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely.

All believers in Christ, who through grace persevere in holiness to the end of life, have promise of eternal salvation.

BAPTISM, or the immersion of believers in water, and the LORD’S SUPPER, are ordinances to be perpetuated under the Gospel.  

God commanded tithes and offerings in the Old Testament: Jesus Christ endorsed it in the Gospel (Matt. 23:23), and the apostle Paul said, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him”
(1 Cor. 16:2a).

The divine law requires that one day in seven be set apart from secular employments and amusements, for rest, worship, holy works, and activities, and for
personal communion with God.