Grace Baptist is affiliated with over 1400 fundamental Baptist churches in the United States. The General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC), began in 1932 and has led in the establishment of mission agencies, educational institutions, and many other ministries to the Body of Christ. In recent decades, associations of Baptist churches all around the world have copied the organizations arrangement of the GARBC and established an informal relationship with our Association. As an "Association" of churches, about the only thing we jointly own would be entities like Christian camps within various states. Each local church is self-governing, self-propagating, and self supporting. We establish relationships as each congregation decides.

Any decision made or positions taken at the national level (by our association leadership) is not binding on the individual congregations (though we usually are in full agreement with them).

Although we are not linked in any formal way with any other para-church organizations, we actively encourage support for missions which are fundamental and evangelical. Our "Association" does not own nor endorse specific missions or educational institutions, but have developed a strong relationship with many fundamental agencies and schools through the past seventy-plus years.

Grace Baptist is "fundamental" in our doctrinal position.

We Believe...
1. The BIBLE is fully inspired by God and was completely free from error in the original manuscripts.
2. Each church should be AUTONOMOUS (self-governing, self-supporting).
3. Each believer enjoys a "PRIESTHOOD" relationship with God.
4. There are TWO OFFICES of leadership - pastors and deacons.
5. INDIVIDUAL SOUL LIBERTY is the right of every Christian.
6. SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.
7. There are TWO ORDINANCES or observations of Christ's commands to celebrate and picture spiritual truths through symbolic action.

These fundamentals together uniquely comprise the beliefs of those commonly known as Baptists. Since the past century has seen many of these beliefs "liberalized" we have adopted the term "fundamental" as a self-description in order to position ourselves with our historic Baptist heritage.