Our Purpose
Crossfield Baptist Church exists to worship and glorify God, obey His Word, and grow in our understanding and relationship with Him. We desire to love and fellowship with God's family, building up and supporting one another, with the purpose of reaching out into the community and world with hope, help, and the gospel of Christ.

Our Vision
Crossfield Baptist Church is a multigenerational community of people dependent upon God and His Word, who desire to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ individually and as a body.

Our Values
Our values are the principles or convictions that guide us in the process of making decisions. We at Crossfield Baptist Church have a set of values we deeply believe guide us in what we do. These are very primary beliefs we hold to that determine, to a large extent, ho we view the needs we want to meet. The following values were identified by the church leadership through a series of refocusing meetings in the winter and spring of 2000-01.
In all that we do, we want to be:
1. Dependent on God
2. Loving
3. Christ-centred
4. Biblical in teaching and practice
5. Committed

We want to minister in a manner that is:
1. People-focused
2. Team oriented
3. Bible based
4. Equipping others to serve
5. Effective
6 Evangelistic

Our Faith
1. Bible - We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six books as originally written, comprising Old and New Testaments were verbally inspired by the Spirit of God and were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice and the true basis of Christian union.

2. God - We believe in one God, creator of all, holy sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

3. Christ - We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in pre-incarnate glory, his virgin birth, sinless life, substitutional death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.

4. Holy Spirit - We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit; who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment, who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates, and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.

5. Satan - We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, and the arch-enemy of God and man.

6. Man - We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God, that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.

7. Salvation - We believe that salvation is by the sovereign, electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, expiatory and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected into the image of the Lord.

8. Future Things - We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the bodily resurrection of the just and unjust, in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.

9. Local Church - We believe that a New Testament local church is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated unto the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observances of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Head of the Church. We believe Christians should abstain from carnal indulgences, separate themselves unto God, deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and liver soberly, righteously and godly in the present world.

10. Ordinances - We believe that there are only two ordinances the church regularly observed in the New Testament in the following order: Baptism - The immersion of the believer in water, whereby he obeys Christ's command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. Communion - The Lord's supper is a memorial wherein the believer partakes of two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord's body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes.

11. The Church and State - We believe in the entire separation of church and state.

12. Religious Liberty - We believe in religious liberty; that every person has the right to practice and propagate their beliefs.

13. The Lord's Day - We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord's day and that, in a special sense, it is a divinely appointed day for worship and spiritual exercise.

14. Civil Government - We believe that civil government is of divine appointment for the interest and good order of society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honoured and obeyed, except in the things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience and Prince of the kings of the earth.

15. Operation of Spiritual Gifts - Every Christian has at least one spiritual gift that he receives at the time of salvation. The Holy Spirit is the giver and He gives as He wills. There are several lists of Spiritual Gifts in the Bible (Ephesians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 12:6-10; 12:28; 1 Peter 4:11). We do not accept the teaching that tongues is the initial evidence of the fullness or baptism of the Spirit. This position leads to divisiveness in the body. We do not believe that all Christians are to receive the gift of tongues. No member or adherent of the church will be allowed to emphasize any one gift above the other. In view of the divisiveness and fragmentation of churches resulting from the charismatic phenomena, we do not identify ourselves with this movement.