Fellowship Baptist Church - where there's joy in the journey
As founding pastor of FBC, I would like to welcome you to our website and I invite you to take a look around. We would love for you and your family to join us at our next service.
We believe that the Holy Bible was written by men supernaturally inspired as they were led by the Holy Spirit. It is truth without error and therefore is the only complete and final revelation of the will of God to man. 2Ti 3:16-17
We believe that there is one, and only one, living and true God. He is the maker and supreme ruler of heaven and earth. He is holy and therefore worthy of all possible honour and praise. In the unity of the Godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption. 1Co 8:6
That the Holy Spirit is a divine person; equal with God the Father and God the Son and of the same nature. He was active in the creation. He restrains the Evil one until God’s purpose is fulfilled. He convicts of sin, of judgment and of righteousness. He bears witness to the Truth of the Gospel in preaching and testimony. He is the agent in the New Birth. He seals, guides, teaches, witnesses, sanctifies, and helps the believer. Joh 14:16-17
We believe that the commandment to give the gospel to the world is clear and unmistakable and this Commission was given to the churches. Mat 28:18-20
We believe that man was created innocent and perfect but voluntarily sinned and fell from his innocence and perfect state. As a result, all human kind are under just condemnation without defence or excuse. Rom 5:12
We believe that Jesus Christ was born of Mary, a virgin, when God miraculously placed the seed of Christ in her. This allowed Christ to be born perfect and become the perfect sacrifice for mankind. Isa 7:14
We believe that Satan was once holy, and enjoyed heavenly honours; but through pride and ambition to be as the Almighty, fell and drew after him a host of angels. He is now the evil prince of power of the air, and the unholy god of this world. We hold him to be man’s great tempter, the enemy of God. He is also the accuser of the saints, the author of all false religions. He is destined however to final defeat at the hands of God’s own Son, and to the judgment of the eternal justice in hell, a place prepared for him and his angels. Isa 14:12-15
We believe in the Genesis accounts of creation, and that it is to be accepted literally, and not allegorically or figuratively. Man was created directly in God’s own image and after His own likeness, was not a matter of evolution. All animal and vegetable life was made directly and God’s established law was that they should bring forth only “after their kind.” For this reason God made woman as a companion for Adam. It was God intentions from the beginning that man and woman were to be one flesh, not man with man or woman with woman. Gen 1:1
We believe that scriptural giving is one of the fundamentals of the faith. We are commanded to bring our gifts into the storehouse (common treasure of the church) upon the first day of the week. Mal 3:10
We believe that the salvation of sinners is only by grace through the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ the payment for sin was paid in full, and God’s wrath was satisfied through the death of His Son. The salvation provided by His sacrificial death is made available to all. Eph 2:8-9
We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again. Born again infers you have become a new creation in Christ Jesus. Salvation is instantaneous and not a process. The saved is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God. Evidence of this decision appears in the fruits of repentance, faith and a change of outward lifestyle. Joh 3:3
We believe in God’s electing grace. The blessings of salvation are made free to all by the hearing of the gospel. Nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the gospel. Rom 10:13
We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to believers is Justification. Justification includes the washing away of sin, and the gift of eternal life. We who believe and accept the payment of sin by the death of Jesus Christ, are presented to God as if we have never sinned. Our sins having been removed and can no longer condemn us. Tit 3:5-7
We believe that Repentance and Faith are serious obligations of mankind. When deeply convicted of our guilt, danger and helplessness, and our need for salvation by Christ, we turn to God with sincere repentance, confessing our wrong doing and asking for God’s mercy on us; at the same time completely receiving the Lord Jesus Christ and openly confessing Him as our only and all-sufficient Saviour. 2Pe 3:9
We believe that a Baptist Church is a congregation of baptized believers associated by a covenant of faith and fellowship. We believe the true mission of the church is found in the Great Commission. The responsibilities of the church includes: First, to make individual disciples; Second, to build up the church; Third, to teach and instruct as He has commanded. We hold that the local church has the absolute right of self government, free from the interference of any hierarchy of individuals or organizations; and that the one and only superintendent is Christ through the Holy Spirit. Every church is the sole and only judge of the measure and method of its cooperation; on all matter of membership, of policy, of government, of discipline, of benevolence, the will of the local church in final as it measures up with scripture. Act 2:41-42
We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion in water of a believer; in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, with the authority of the local church. Baptism depicts a solemn and beautiful symbol our faith in the crucified, buried and risen Saviour. It represents our death to sin and resurrection to a new life. The Lord’s supper is the sacred use of the bread and the fruit of the vine taken to commemorate together the dying love of Christ on the cross; preceded always by solemn self-examination. Mat 28:19 ; 1Co 11:23-28
We believe that such only real believers endure unto the end. Those that have surrendered themselves to Christ and accepted His gift of salvation, have been adopted into the family of God. Their position as sons of God will remain forever. They are kept by the power of God through faith unto eternal salvation. Joh 10:28-29
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked. The righteous are those who through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the Spirit of God. All others that continue in unrepentance and unbelief and are in His sight wicked. After death, the righteous will have a home in heaven where they will enjoy the place that the Lord has prepared for them for all eternity. The wicked however, will have their place in hell where they will be tormented throughout all eternity with the devil and his angels. Mat 7:13-14
We believe that civil government is a divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society. Magistrates are to be prayed for, honoured and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ and His word. Tit 3:1
We believe in and accept the sacred Scriptures upon these subjects at their face and full value. Of the Resurrection, we believe that Christ rose bodily the third day according to the Scriptures; that those dead in Christ shall rise and join the living saints to be caught up with Jesus in the clouds when He returns. Those in Christ shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye upon His return. The Lord God shall give unto Jesus Christ the throne of His Father David; and that Christ shall reign a thousand years in righteousness until He hath put all enemies under His feet. Rev 20:6