What We Believe
Covenant Baptist Church is a group of called-out believers who are committed to following Jesus Christ as Lord. We do this by sharing the good news of the gospel to those who are separated from God; and by teaching believers how to be fully devoted followers of Christ. We are passionate about the power of the gospel (Romans 1:16) and the power of a covenant community to be used of God to shine the light of Christ into a dark world.
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Doctrinal BeliefsCovenant Baptist Church affiliates with the Southern Baptist Convention and affirms the
In addition we are committed to regenerate membership, biblical church discipline, and covenant. We believe these are the building blocks of a healthy New Testament Church. See the following tabs for more |
What is the gospel?
The gospel is the good news of God to man, and it answers our greatest questions about life and death. The Bible says “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” God created the entire universe by His infinite power, including mankind. Amazingly, God created man (male and female) in His own image, to be the pinnacle of creation. Man was crafted as a personal being who would reflect the image and glory of the Holy God, and who would freely commune with God in purity and love. In fact, God loved man so much that He gave man dominion over all the earth (Genesis 1:26-29).
God placed man in a luscious garden and gave him everything he could want, and God’s only requirement for him was to obey. However, man disobeyed (Gen. 3:6), and, as a result, sin entered the fabric of humanity. From that time, all men have been under the bondage of sin. The Bible declares we are all guilty “there is none who does good, no, not one” (Psalm 14:2-3). Because of this, judgment and death must fall on us all. But, thankfully, God in His grace created a way of salvation (Romans 6:23).
God sent His perfect Son, Jesus Christ, to pay our sin debt by offering Him as a sacrifice to atone for our sins (Romans 5:8). Because of His love for man, Jesus humbly came to earth, lived a sinless life, and offered Himself to take the punishment we deserved by dying on a cross to appease the justice of God due us (1 John 2:2). Jesus sacrifice was sufficient to cover our sins, and to prove it the Father raised Him from dead! And the promise of God is the same eternal life to all who are found in Him (1 Cor. 15:20-22).
Jesus is coming back soon to judge the world. When He does He will cast the unbelieving into Hell, but He will also redeem and remake all creation in a glorious state of peace and harmony with God as it was before our fall into sin. Each of us will spend eternity either at peace with God or in Hell for our rebellion. And the only way to escape God’s judgment and be at peace with Him is through Christ (John 10:9; 14:6).
Though we deserve death for our sin against the Holy God who created us, God has graciously offered salvation (forgiveness and eternal life) to all who: admit their guilt, repent (turn from their sins), believe in Jesus Christ by accepting His forgiveness and receiving His righteousness, and following Him as Lord (Luke 9:23). When in humility we put our faith in Christ and confess Him as Lord we are saved (Romans 10:9-10), born again (John 3:3), made a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17), freed from the bondage of sin, and adopted as a child of God forever! (Romans 8:14-17).
This is the gospel. And it’s available to all who will repent and believe (Mark 1:15).
We are a 9Marks Church. The 9 Marks of a Healthy Church are:
I. Expositional Preaching
II. Biblical Theology
III. The Gospel
IV. Conversion
V. Evangelism
VI. Membership
VII. Discipline
VIII. Discipleship
IX. Leadership
To learn more about each mark visit 9Marks
"'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.' Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house...And immediately he and all his family were baptized" (Acts 16:31-33 NKJV).
Are you tired of running the “rat race” of modern life? Do you sometimes feel church is just another part of this race—more time away from home, more work to be done, more time separated from your own family? We here at Covenant used to feel this way too, until we found a better way.
The family is the first and greatest institution God created. It was established long before any other human institution, and is the divinely ordained building block of the society and the church. So, why do we as the church so often segregate and divide families when we come to church? Why do we use the most effective tool of the enemy in the world to destroy families—the fragmentation of the family—and think the result in church will somehow be different? The statistics show the result is the same. Current data indicates that nearly 80% of children who attend church, but are seldom with their own family at church, will leave the church at age 18 and many will abandon the faith all together.
After searching the Scriptures, we decided that the answer was not a more entertaining or exciting children’s or youth program. We’ve come to believe the answer is to help restore the family unit through true family discipleship. When the family learns the gospel together and each member learns how to grow and mature in Christ—while embracing their role in the family—the family, the church, and the society will prosper because God is truly worshipped, glorified, and exalted as He intended.
We believe the greatest need for fathers is to learn and embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, and then teach and lead their families to do the same (Ephesians 5:23). This is why we’ve tried to create a church environment that embraces this fundamental, biblical truth so families can “grow up in all things into Him” (Ephesians 4:15). But this doesn’t mean that those without children are not welcome here. We believe a church is a family of believers—young, old, single, married, with children, without children, orphaned, elderly, widowed, etc. Regardless of your family situation, followers of Christ are to come together in unity and love and build each other in the faith “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3).
At Covenant, we believe the best environment for this kind of growth and edification in the Lord is in an age-integrated church—a church in which adults learn the gospel, learn to follow Christ, and learn how to make disciples, beginning with their own children. In this way, we are much more equipped to follow Christ and His word, much more equipped to be salt and light in the world, and much more equipped to carry out the Great Commission. If this appeals to you, we invite you to come and worship with us and learn more about what God is doing among us as we seek to follow Him!
For Christ, for the Gospel, for the Family,
Pastor Todd
P.S. You can read more about the awakening among God's people and His churches regarding family worship and age-integrated church by visiting the website for Church and Family Life. You will especially want to read their declaration for uniting church and family, which we embrace.
Church and Family Life. You will especially want to read their declaration for uniting church and family, which we embrace.