MISSION AND VISION

GATHER, GROW, GIVE, GO


We Gather together to worship God. When we spend time with God by hearing His Word and studying it with His people, we Grow becoming spiritually mature. Spiritual maturity leads us to Give, loving those who are far from God through fellowship and ministry. Fellowship demonstrates love as believers seek to help one another grow in God's love. Ministry takes place when we give to meet people's needs, which shows them God's love. We Go sharing the hope of Jesus through ministry and evangelism. As ministry meets people's needs, it opens the door for sharing the good news of the gospel.


Spiritual maturity is evident when believers Gather, Grow, Give, and Go because these four activities show they are fully participating in the gospel.


Watch Dr. Byrd's sermons on each part of our vision: GATHER, GROW, GIVE, GO


SPIRITUAL GIFTS SURVEY

Part of our vision for the church includes encouraging believers to Give their Time, Treasure, and Talents to the Lord. Do you know your spiritual gifts and have you taken time to consider how those align with your passions? We want to see our members serve in a way that fulfills our mission, but is also personally fulfilling. We recommend discovering your spiritual gifts by taking a survey from LifeWay if you do not know your gifts!  

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We encourage you to learn more about the ways we carry out our mission statement in Greensboro, the U.S., and overseas!

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WE Believe

THE 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. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.


GOD There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal Triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.


JESUS 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. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself human nature with its demands and necessities and identifying Himself completely with mankind yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is now exalted at the right hand of God where He is the One Mediator, fully God, fully man, in whose Person is effected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission.


THE HOLY SPIRIT is the Spirit of God, fully divine. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and effects regeneration. At the moment of regeneration He baptizes every believer into the Body of Christ. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows the spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the guarantee that God will bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.


HUMANITY is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation. In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice. Through the temptation of Satan, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. 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 person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.


SALVATION involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Repentance is a genuine turning from sin toward God. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and a giving of the entire personality to Him as Lord and Savior.


We affirm the basic tenets in The Baptist Faith and Message.