We, the members of The Emmanuel Baptist Church, do ordain and establish the following Articles, to which we voluntarily submit ourselves. We believe the Scriptures to be our only infallible guide in all matters of faith and practice and intend this Constitution to be subservient to them. However, some rules of church order which are in this Constitution are not specifically prescribed in the Scriptures and were arrived at by “the light of nature, Christian prudence, and general rules of the Word of God.”