OUR PURPOSE STATEMENT

First Baptist seeks to bring the whole gospel to the whole person in the whole world by...

• celebrating in worship God's saving love in Jesus Christ;
• delivering the revelation of God as witnessed in the Bible formally and informally through preaching and teaching;
• inviting persons to new life in Christ;
• enabling persons to grow as disciples in faith, life and witness;
• offering pastoral care and counseling;
• sharing each other's joys;
• supporting each other in times of crisis;
• reaching out to the community around us;
• participating in God's mission to the world.

OUR COVENANT

Having been led by God to confess our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and having been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we now reverently and joyfully affirm our covenant with God and each other.

We pledge to serve Christ in the fellowship of the congregation. We shall endeavor to love one another, to remember one another in prayer, to share in each other’s joys, and to support each other in times of distress. We aspire to be a fellowship of the concerned, where the lost may find Jesus Christ, sinners may find pardon, seekers may find meaning, and where all who come may find welcome. We shall strive to be responsible church members, through regular worship, giving, and service.

We shall seek to be obedient to Christ in our daily living. Within our homes, in our work, and in our play, we shall strive for attitudes and actions which reflect God’s spirit working through us. Believing that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, we shall endeavor to avoid experiences and habits which defile the body and hinder our witness.

Bound together in a fellowship of faith with all who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, we shall pray and labor for a spirit of unity among all Christians.

Believing that our call to be a church is a call to witness in the world, we dedicate ourselves anew to be servants of the Lord of all of life. When persons are in bondage to ignorance, poverty, fear, or prejudice, we shall strive for justice, freedom, dignity, and peace. When persons are separated by barriers of hostility and distrust, we shall be ministers of God’s reconciling love. As we pledge our support to the work of our missionaries throughout the world, we commit ourselves to the mission to which God calls us all.

Acknowledging our sins and ever seeking forgiveness, we confess our need of the Holy Spirit. We commit our lives to Jesus Christ, and through Him to the care, judgment, deliverance, and mercy of Almighty God. Amen.