MISSION OF COMMUNITY BAPTIST

MAGNIFY JESUS. GROW TOGETHER. REACH PEOPLE.

Magnify Jesus through the Word and worship. Grow believers in fellowship and discipleship. Reach people through ministry and missions.

We believe every person — no matter their background — matters deeply to God. That’s why Community Baptist exists:

  • Know God — through His Word, worship, and a personal relationship with Jesus.
  • Grow Together — in community, discipleship, and real friendships.
  • Make Disciples — helping people follow Jesus in everyday life.
  • Change the World — starting right here in our own community through love, service, and prayer.

THE FAMILY

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.

Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards,

and the means for procreation of the human race.

The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. This means he will be willing to give the ultimate sacrifice, his own life, for his wife and children. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.

Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle example and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth.

Children are to honor and obey their parents.

THE GOSPEL SECTION


WHAT IS THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST?

The word "gospel" simply means "good news!" The gospel according to the Bible is the good news that Jesus Christ died and then was resurrected on the third day for your sins. How is someone dying good news?

HOW IT ALL STARTED

God, in his infinite power and wisdom, created everything out of nothing. And it was all good and it was Perfect. He created human beings in his image, gifting them with inherent dignity, worth, and the responsibility to care for and represent Him on the earth.

WHAT HAPPENED?

The first humans, Adam and Eve, failed in this responsibility, misrepresenting God in His holiness and goodness by trusting in themselves and choosing to follow their own way instead of trusting in and following God's way. Because they went their own way, sin and death entered an otherwise perfect world. Every human from that point forward (that includes every human who has ever lived) would inherit a sinful nature. Our relationship with God is broken, and we are separated from enjoying the life and peace that only exists with Him.

HOW CAN THIS BE FIXED?

God, in his love and mercy, intervened Himself by sending Jesus, His own Son, to take on human form, live a perfect life (the life we should have lived), die a sinner's death (the death we should have died), and rise from the grave to reign forevermore. On the cross Jesus took on the punishment we deserve for going our own way.

HANG ON ….. IT GETS BETTER

Jesus died so that we can live! That's how someone dying can be good news, but it's also good news because He didn't stay dead. Jesus' resurrection from the dead proves that He's stronger than death and stronger than Satan and will never fail those who believe in Him. If left to go our own way, we'll just remain in our brokenness, separated from God forever. However, if we turn from our sin and trust in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, God forgives us of our sin and gives us eternal life with Him forever!

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes" Romans 1:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that WHOEVER believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16