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We believe that each local church has the right to be independent and autonomous and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority. We believe that the ordinance of The Lord’s Supper commemorates His death until He comes. We believe that the immersion of Believer in water, in the name of The Father, and of The Son, and of the Holy Spirit is baptism as set forth in the New Testament. We believe that salvation is the gift of God and is received and experienced only through personal faith in Him. We believe in the resurrection of the dead, both the just and the unjust, the righteous going to everlasting life in glory with Christ and the wicked to everlasting punishment. We believe in the vicarious death of the Lord Jesus Christ for our sins, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood, in the resurrection of His body, His ascension into Heaven and His personal and visible return to the earth1 1 Peter 1:19, 1 Corinthians 15:3 Bill Curtis is the founding pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church, in Darlington, SC, co-founder of The Pillar Network for Church Planting, former Trustee Board Chairman of the North American Mission Board, and the author of Engaging Exposition, 30 Days to James, Exalting Christ in Micah, and Gypsy Smith: The Forgotten Evangelist. Our mission is to make Christ- centered believers through Biblical preaching and teaching. We believe that man was created in the image of God, and that he sinned and thereby incurred spiritual death, which is everlasting punishment. Cornerstone is a Bible-based church with a heart for discipleship. We believe in the personality of the Holy Spirit and that His ministry is to reveal Christ to men in the regeneration and sanctification of their souls. We believe that Jesus Christ is the one all-sufficient mediator between God and man. We believe that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, and that Jesus Christ is True God and the True Man without sin. We believe in one God eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that the Bible is the complete and infallible Word of God, verbally and literally inspired as found in the original manuscripts, and is the supreme and final authority in all matters pertaining to faith and practice.