Charlotte Baptist Chapel

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Charlotte Baptist Chapel is a church in Rose Street in central Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Though calling itself a Baptist Chapel, it is in reality an independent church and is not a part of the Baptist Union of Scotland, which is the official denominational body of Baptists in Scotland.

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[edit] History

Charlotte Baptist Chapel was founded in 1808. It was founded in January 1808 by its first pastor Christopher Anderson. In the last century, Graham Scroggie (1916 - 1933), Sidlow Baxter (1935 - 1953), Gerald Griffiths (1954 - 1962), Alan Redpath (1964 - 1968), Derek Prime (1969 - 1987) and Peter Grainger (1992 - date) have been senior pastors of the congregation.[1] Alistair Begg is also a former assistant of CBC.

[edit] Worship

There are two services every Sunday, the first one at 11:00am and the second one at 6:30pm.

[edit] Building

The church building has 5 floors. In the basement is an area usually used for babysitting during worship, toilets can also be found here. There is a meeting room on the first floor with a small kitchen. The main worship hall and the balcony are on second and third floors. The fourth floor is used as another meeting room.

[edit] Belief

The doctrinal basis [2] of Charlotte Baptist Chapel is the fundamental truths of Christianity, as revealed in Holy Scripture, including:

  • There is one God in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
  • God is sovereign in creation, revelation, redemption and final judgement.
  • The Bible, as originally given, is the inspired and infallible Word of God. It is the supreme authority in all matters of belief and behaviour.
  • Since the fall, the whole of humankind is sinful and guilty, so that everyone is subject to God's wrath and condemnation.
  • The Lord Jesus Christ, God's incarnate Son, is fully God; he was born of a virgin; his humanity is real and sinless; he died on the cross, was raised bodily from death and is now reigning over heaven and earth.
  • Sinful human beings are redeemed from the guilt, penalty and power of sin only through the sacrificial death once and for all time of their representative and substitute, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between them and God.
  • Those who believe in Christ are pardoned all their sins and accepted in God's sight only because of the righteousness of Christ credited to them; this justification is God's act of undeserved mercy, received solely by trust in him and not by their own efforts.
  • The Holy Spirit alone makes the work of Christ effective to individual sinners, enabling them to turn to God from their sin and to trust in Jesus Christ.
  • The Holy Spirit lives in all those he has regenerated. He makes them increasingly Christlike in character and behaviour and gives them power for their witness in the world.
  • The one holy universal church is the Body of Christ, to which all true believers belong.
  • The Lord Jesus Christ will return in person, to judge everyone, to execute God's just condemnation on those who have not repented and to receive the redeemed to eternal glory.

[edit] About

Charlotte Baptist Chapel has several 'daughter' churches:

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