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Baptism

The Detroit Church is a Baptist church in the lineage of true, local churches dating back to the time of Christ and the apostles. These local congregations have maintained baptism by the immersion of believers in water upon profession of faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.

These churches, therefore, have been baptistic in practice though they have gone under different names in history and have had various disorders in them as did the churches at Galatia and Corinth.

We do lot use the word "Baptist" in our name because the Scriptures make no such requirement. We identify our church by its geographical location as the churches in the New Testament were identified.

Denominational names can be misleading by identifying a church with some beliefs and practices not held by that particular church.

Be it understood that this is not an exhaustive statement of the faith of The Detroit Church. It is intended only as a simplified statement of identification. It states our position on several points of doctrine discussed among Bible readers.

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