Fundamentally, First Baptist Church is governed by God’s Word. We believe that God’s Word (the Bible) is, as our Statement of Faith says, “the true center of Christian union and the supreme standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and opinions shall be tried.” While we are fundamentally governed by the Bible, we are also governed by other documents. We recognize that these documents are not on equal footing with the Bible; that is, they do not have the same authority in our corporate life that the Bible does. Nonetheless, we do think that they are important documents which serve important purposes