ABOUT

We are . . .
 
Christian 
We believe all of Scripture was written by men divinely inspired, so it truly is God's Word and revelation of Himself to us. We look to the Scriptures as our inerrant and sole authority in all matters of faith and practice. The whole of Scripture reveals to us the triune God. He calls all everywhere to repent from sin and trust in the risen and reigning Christ, Who died and rose again for the redemption of sinners. As Christ's church, we are called to give witness to Christ and proclaim His good news. We are redeemed sinners imperfectly following our perfect Savior as we point others to Him.

Gospel-Centered
We believe that God’s Gospel is the good news and Kingly announcement revealed in all the Bible that:

• God Rules: The one true God created us to enjoy and reflect His glory in all His creation.
• Humanity Rebels: We have rebelliously sought our own glory, earning shame and God’s just judgment for our sin.
• Christ Redeems: As planned and promised in love, God sent His eternal Son in Christ Jesus to perfectly live, sacrificially die, victoriously rise, sovereignly reign, justly judge, and faithfully save sinners from God’s good wrath.
• Repent & Believe the Gospel: God is reconciling back to Himself a beloved people born of His Spirit and forgiven of sins who, at the hearing of this good news, repent from sin and lovingly follow the Lord Jesus by faith now and for all eternity in the new creation to the glory of God.

Learn more of how we teach the gospel with our Gospel Page and Sermons.

Baptist 
We practice baptism scripturally as an early step of obedience for born-again Christians to identify with Christ and His church. This involves being immersed under water and raised up out of the water, picturing the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This act gives testimony to the Christian's faith in the Gospel and his union with Christ in His death and resurrection. It says to all the world, "This one belongs to Jesus!"

Baptism also declares the church's trust that the person's profession of faith is genuine, embracing the new believer into committed discipleship within the church. Our local church membership of saved, baptized believers is responsible to the Lord and to one another for the health and stewardship of our church.

A Local Expression of Christ's Church
We trust that Christ is building His church in every place and age. So, we pray for other faithful local churches and know ourselves to be a part of them in Christ. We long for the day Christ returns and gathers all His church as one to dwell with Him in the new creation. Until then, we gather to build up one another in the faith and scatter to give witness to the gospel in our daily lives.

As Christians, we believe God has revealed His Word to us in the Bible and also blessed His church with sound doctrine defined and clarified through the ages. We are not an island to ourselves. Jesus has been and will be faithful to build His church. With this conviction, we affirm the theological heritage of the following creeds and historic commitments (with the understanding that "catholic" means "universal" and does not refer to Roman Catholicism): the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon, the Five Solas of the Protestant Reformation.

As Baptists, we affirm the theological heritage of such historic Baptist confessions as: the New Hampshire Confession of Faith and the Baptist Faith and Message. 

As Bible-believing Christians facing contemporary issues, we maintain such doctrinal and ethical commitments as those found in: the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy (1978), the Danvers Statement on Biblical Complementarity (1987), the Nashville Statement on Biblical Sexuality (2017), and the Augustine School Statement on Social Theory (2022).

Read more of what we believe here.

Scriptures tell us that the Spirit adds members into the church and gifts churches with pastors and elders to lead, teach, and love them in Christ. We are thankful to the Lord for the leadership He has given us, and we pray He continues to add and develop more leaders within our church for His glory and Gospel advancement.

We know leaders within a church have a particular accountability to God for how they exercise this office among His church. Because of this, we especially pray for those within our church who obey God's calling to fulfill this responsibility faithfully. Notice the weighty instruction written by Apostle Paul to the pastors in the church of Ephesus:

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Acts 20:28

Meet the pastors and elders who serve within our church.

God began establishing this local church in 1969. Those early days started in Mark Twain Elementary School. We give God praise for advancing the Gospel through us as well as through other faithful churches in our community and world.

It is our privilege to be a part of the church Christ is building by the Spirit. We continue to see God rescuing sinners to Himself into His loving church. By God's grace, we are seeing Christ's Gospel transform our lives and the lives of others for His glory. It is to this end that we partner together as a church and with other churches.

If you visit us in one of our gatherings or meet one of us in the community, we pray you will experience the love and truth of Christ in us. You will certainly find us to be imperfect, but we do hope you will see that God is truly transforming our hearts and lives. We are not what we should be, but we are not what we were before knowing Christ!

Because we desire to see God continually working in us, our activities are centered around expositional preaching, interactive Bible studies, worshipful singing, sacrificial giving and service, discipling relationships, and community witness. We truly hope you will gather with us for worship or for one of our upcoming events.