The search for a church can be challenging and stressful.
Thank you for taking the time to visit the website of the
Calvary Baptist Church. Parents are looking for a safe,
biblical and child-friendly church atmosphere for their
children. Young couples are scanning the church horizon hoping
to find the support and encouragement of other newlyweds.
Singles are looking for support, understanding and fellowship.
Mature adults are looking for a place to connect, to belong
and to serve. I believe that Calvary Baptist Church offers
multigenerational ministries for whatever life situation in
which you find yourself today. Our mission is to be a caring
family of God, living and sharing God's love and the love
of Jesus Christ with all persons.
John 13:35 says, "By this all men will know that you are my
disciples, if you love one another." I hope that you will be
our guest this Sunday for Bible Study 10:00 am and 11:00 am,
Traditional/Blended Worship Service. Please call me at
803-259-5420 or email us at the church if we can answer more
of your questions.
SPLASH OF FAITH 2010 ~ Sunday, August 29th from 5 until 6:30 pm
and/or Monday from 6 until 8pm. Every member of Sunday School
needs to be at this service. This is a special service for Faith
Evangelism.
Southern Baptists have prepared a statement of generally held
convictions called The Baptist Faith and Message. It serves as
a guide to understanding who they are. Copies are available at
Southern Baptist churches. The topics here provide only a
brief, partial summary. The full text on the issue discussed is
also available.
The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is
God's revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure
of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for
its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its
matter.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal
God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with
distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature,
essence, or being.
God the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus
Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the
virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal
obedience, and in His death on the cross, He made provision for
the redemption of men from sin.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. …He exalts Christ. He
convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He
enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship,
evangelism, and service.
Man
Man was created by the special act of God, in His own image,
and is the crowning work of His creation. …By his free choice
man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. …
The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God
created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man;
therefore every man possesses dignity and is worthy of respect
and Christian love.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is
offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and
Saviour, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for
the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes
regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus
Christ as Lord.
A. Regeneration, or the new birth, is a work of God's grace
whereby believers become new creatures in Christ Jesus. It
is a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit through
conviction of sin, to which the sinner responds in repentance
toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Repentance and
faith are inseparable experiences of grace.
Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is
the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire
personality to Him as Lord and Saviour.
B. Justification is God's gracious and full acquittal upon
principles of His righteousness of all sinners who repent and
believe in Christ. Justification brings the believer unto a
relationship of peace and favor with God.
C. Sanctification is the experience, beginning in regeneration,
by which the believer is set apart to God's purposes, and is
enabled to progress toward moral and spiritual maturity
through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit dwelling
in him. Growth in grace should continue throughout the
regenerate person's life.
D. Glorification is the culmination of salvation and is the
final blessed and abiding state of the redeemed.
God's Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He
regenerates, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. …All true
believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in
Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away
from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
The Church
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local
body of baptized believers who are associated by covenant
in the faith and fellowship of the gospel…and seeking to
extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. …This church is
an autonomous body. …The New Testament speaks also of the
church as the body of Christ, which includes all of the
redeemed of all the ages.
Baptism & the Lord's Supper
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water. …It
is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer's faith in a
crucified, buried, and risen Saviour, the believer's death to
sin, the burial of the life, and the resurrection to walk in
newness of life in Christ Jesus.
The Lord's Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby
members … memorialize the death of the Redeemer and
anticipate His second coming.
The Lord's Day
The first day of the week is the Lord's Day. …It commemorates
the resurrection of Christ from the dead and should be
employed in exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.
Last Things
God, in His own time and in His own way, will bring the world
to its appropriate end. …Jesus Christ will return personally
and visibly…the dead will be raised; and Christ will judge
all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned
to Hell. …The righteous… will receive their reward and will
dwell forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Evangelism & Missions
It is the duty and privilege of every follower of Christ and
every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavor to make
disciples of all nations … to seek constantly to win the
lost to Christ by personal effort.
Education
The cause of education in the Kingdom of Christ is co-ordinate
with the causes of missions and general benevolence … there
should be a proper balance between academic freedom and
academic responsibility. …The freedom of a teacher in a
Christian school, college, or seminary is limited by the
pre-eminence of Jesus Christ, by the authoritative nature
of the Scriptures, and by the distinct purpose for which
the school exists.
Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings, temporal and spiritual;
all that we have and are we owe to Him. Christians have a
spiritual debtorship to the whole world, a holy trusteeship
in the gospel, and a binding stewardship in their possessions.
They are therefore under obligation to serve Him with their
time, talents, and material possessions.
Cooperation
Christ's people should … organize such associations and
conventions as may best secure cooperation for the great
objects of the Kingdom of God . Such organizations have no
authority over one another or over the churches. …Cooperation
is desirable between the various Christian denominations.
The Christian & the Social Order
Every Christian is under obligation to seek to make the will
of Christ supreme in his own life and in human society. ...
The Christian should oppose in the spirit of Christ every form
of greed, selfishness, and vice.
Religious Liberty
Church and state should be separate. The state owes to every
church protection and full freedom in the pursuit of its
spiritual ends. …A free church in a free state is the Christian
ideal.
Family
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution
of human society. …Marriage is the unity of one man and one
woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. …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. …Children, from the moment of
conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord.
THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
Life is a journey, not a destination.
Your life will be somewhere for the duration,
Lord, we have a choice, so I choose your way,
While I wait for that glorious day.
As I journey on, I will pray and ask,
to help me Lord in my daily task.
If I stumble somewhere along the way,
I know Lord you will forgive me, if I pray.
Before my journey on this earth ends,
I want to lead others, and all my friends,
With your help, Lord, along the way,
Others will join me on that glorious day.
