Article 10 Notes To The Constitution (amended on September 26, 2004)

1. For details of "Baptist distinctives" please refer to "My Church" by Gordon G. Johnson.

2. Through daily devotions, prayer, fasting, reading, hearing and seeing, God will increase our wisdom and understanding.

3. John 17:17 / Romans 15:4 / 2 Timothy 3:16-17 / 2 Peter 1:19-21

4. Matthew 28:19 / John 1:1-4 / 1 John 5:7

5.John 3:16-17 / John 4:24 / John 17:5

6.Isaiah 7:14 / John 1:14 / Philippians 2:5-11 / Hebrews 1:2-3 / 1 John 1:7

7. Regenerate: to recreate the moral nature; changed from a natural to a spiritual state; to be born anew.

8.John 14:26 / John 16:7-15 / Romans 8:14-17 / Ephesians 1:13-14

9. See #6

10. John 1:12-13 / John 3:3, 16-17 / Acts 20:21 / Ephesians 2:1-9 / Titus 3:5

11. Matthew 16:16-18 / Acts 2:38-41 / Ephesians 2:19-22, 5:25-27

12. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 / Ephesians 4:11-16 / Philippians 2:14-16

13. Matthew 28:18-20 / Acts 2:41-42 / Romans 6:3-5 / 1 Corinthians 11:23, 32

14.Romans 13

15. Acts 15:1-35

16. John 5:28-29 / Romans 20: 1-5 / 2 Corinthians 5:10 / Matthew 25:31-46

17. Genesis 2:18-24 / Matthew 19:1-10 / Matthew 22:23-33 / Ephesians 5:22-33