What To Expect
When You Visit
At our Sunday morning worship service, our goal is to intentionally worship in the simply meaningful ways that Jesus and the apostles taught the New Testament church to worship.
We sing acapella as a congregation, usually with a mix of older and newer songs (Eph. 5:19).
We have several public prayers led on behalf of the congregation, praising God and asking His blessing on our lives, our church, our community, and our world (Matt. 7:7-11).
We pass around the bread and juice of the Lord’s Supper, to remember the death of Jesus as a church family each Sunday (1 Cor. 11:23-26). There is a short devotional thought before the Lord’s Supper, intended to prepare our minds to reflect on the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins.
We pass around trays for our members to give together to support our ministries both locally and globally (1 Cor. 16:1-2).
We have a lesson from the Bible, which is intended to be understandable and relevant in encouraging us all to live more faithfully (1 Tim. 4:13). At the end of the lesson we stand and sing an “invitation song,” during which anyone who desires public prayers or wants to take a public step of faith can come to the front row to talk with the preacher and/or elders. Our leaders will help those who come forward with their requests by either leading the congregation in prayer on their behalf or baptizing them into Christ.
At our Sunday Bible classes, we have classes for all ages, from the newborn nursery to adult studies. The adult class choices include a variety of groupings and topics that change every 3 months. In addition to studying the Bible, our adult classes also usually include a time of taking prayer requests and having a prayer together. We believe you will find these Bible classes to be encouraging and thought-provoking, and our classes are also great places to get to know each other better in a smaller group setting.
We also meet for worship on Sunday evenings. We always have members and visitors who are able to come to our evening worship that couldn’t come in the morning, and there are often devotionals and get-togethers planned after the 5 pm service. Our Sunday evenings together are often some of our most memorable times of worship and fellowship.
Wednesday nights, we meet for a devotional period for about 15-20 minutes before dividing into Bible classes for all ages. Our classes for all ages also explore Bible topics in 3-month periods.
We would love to have you visit our weekly assemblies! We think you will find everything very God-centered and spiritually encouraging.
What We Believe
(a) The Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of God, and is the final authority in matters of faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16-17; Colossians 3:17).
(b) Christ established one church, and His followers are to be united in it (Mt 16:18; Eph. 4:4-6).
(c) Salvation is by grace through faith, requiring belief, repentance, confession, baptism, and a faithful life (Eph. 2:8-9; Acts 2:38; Rom. 10:9-10). Therefore, baptism for the remission of sins is an essential part of salvation (Mark 16:16; Romans 6:3-4).
(d) The Lord’s Supper is observed every Sunday (Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26).
(e) Every Sunday, an opportunity is provided for our members to give financially to support our ministries both locally and globally (1 Cor. 16:1-2).
(f) Worship is “acapella,” and the church worships through singing without instrumental music (Eph. 5:19; Col. 3:16-17; Heb. 13:15).
(g) Men are expected to take the lead in worship assemblies. Women are not to preach, teach, lead singing, or lead prayer in the worship assembly when men are present, or otherwise exercise spiritual authority over men in any part of the work of the congregation (1 Tim. 2:1-15). Specifically, women may not serve as elders, preachers, or deacons (1 Tim. 3:2-11; Titus 2:15). However, this does not discount the importance of women serving in various capacities as they did when the church was established in the New Testament (Gal. 3:28; Titus 2:3-5; Acts 18:26; 1 Tim. 2:11-12; 1 Cor. 14:34-35).
(h) Christians are to live according to God’s will, avoiding sin and pursuing holiness. For example, unrepentant adultery, homosexuality, and other sexual immorality will endanger one’s eternal salvation (1 Cor. 6:9-11).
(i) Marriage, according to Scripture, is between a male and a female, not between same-sex partners, and it reflects the relationship between Christ and the church (1 Peter 1:15-16; Titus 2:11-12; Gen. 2:18; Gen. 2:21-24; Eph 5:22-25; Matt. 19:4-6).
(j) God wonderfully and immutably created both man and woman. These two distinct, complementary sexes together reflect the image and nature of God (Gen. 1:26-27). The rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.
(k) All human life is sacred and endowed by God with inherent dignity and must be respected and protected from conception to natural death. In particular, abortion or the use of abortifacient technologies and services is not acceptable to God (Ex. 20:13; Ex. 21:22-25; Matt. 5:21).
(l) Adoption agencies, group homes, nursing homes, and other organizations to care for orphans, widows, or other vulnerable or needy persons may be supported out of the congregation’s finances (Gal. 6:10; 1 Tim. 5:3-16; James 1:27; Acts 11:22-30; 2 Cor. 8 and 9; 2 Cor. 9:13; 2 Cor. 11:8; Matt. 5:43-48; Luke 10:25-37).
(m) All congregations of the Lord’s church must practice church discipline, including encouraging and admonishing an individual congregant who is unfaithful to repent, first privately, then, if needed, publicly withdrawing fellowship from them if they remain unrepentant (Matt. 18:15-22). Church discipline is appropriate for those who are disobedient (1 Cor. 5:1-13; 2 Thess. 3:6, 13-14; Eph 5:11), disorderly (Titus 3:10-11; Rom. 16:17-18; 1 Thess. 5:14), or who distort or deny the faith (2 John 1:10-11; 1 Tim. 6:3-4; 2 Tim. 3:5).
(n) Church facilities must never be used in ways that violate Biblical teaching or support conduct that the Bible condemns (1 Tim. 5:22; Eph. 5:7, 11).
