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Seward Road May 28th, 2008

The mission of Seward Road Baptist Church is found in our mission statement, “We attend Seward Road Baptist Church to worship God, Love, encourage, and equip each other, and to extend the Gospel of Jesus to the World.” Our mission is to help people in our community know God through His Son Jesus Christ. To accomplish this mission, it is imperative that we love people. If you are a member of Seward Road Baptist Church, join in accomplishing our mission. If you are not a member of the church, we sincerely trust you will experience the love of Jesus in our lives that you might know our wonderful God.

Seward is a family church where you and your family are important. Whether you are a single, college student, young or a senior adult, large family or small there are many opportunities for you to serve, worship, fellowship and fit in. Here at Seward we encourage you to use your talents for the Lord. This can be done through many opportunities in ministry, fellowships, missions, growth, as well as, many other areas of Christian life.

Whether you are new to the community, new to Seward, or new to the Christian life, we have a place for you. Take time to check out the different areas of ministry we have.

OBJECTIVES

  • To be a dynamic spiritual organism empowered by the Holy Spirit to share Christ with as many people as possiblein our church community and throughout the world.
  • To be a worshiping fellowship, experiencing an awareness of God, recognizing His person, and responding in obedience to His leadership.
  • To experience an increasingly meaningful fellowship with God and fellow believers.
  • To help people experience a growing knowledge of God and man.
  • To be a church which ministers unselfishly to persons in the community and the world in Jesus’ name.
  • To be a church whose purpose is to be Christlike in our daily living by emphasizing total commitment of life, personality, and possessions to the lordship of Christ.

STATEMENT OF BASIC BELIEFS

  We affirm the Holy Bible as the inspired word of God and the basis for our beliefs.  This church subscribes to the doctrinal statement of “The Baptist Faith and Message” by Hershal H. Hobbs, as adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 1963.  We voluntarily band ourselves together as a body of baptised believers in Jesus Christ, personally committed to sharing the good news of salvation to lost mankind.  The ordinances of the church are believer’s baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

CHURCH COVENANT

  Having been led as we believeby the Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and, on the profession of our faith, having been baptised in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now in the presence of God and this assembly most solemnly and joyfully enter into convenant with one another as one body in Christ. 

  We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love;  to strive for the advancement of this knowledge, holiness, and and comfort;  to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, doctrines, and discipline;  to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, andthe relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.

  We also engage to maintain family and secret devotios;  to religiously educate our children;  to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances;  to walk circumspectively in the world;  to be just in our dealings, faithful in in our engagements, and exempary in our deportment;  to avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger, to abstain from the sale of and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage;  to use our influence to combat the abuse of drugs and the spread of pornography;  and to be zealousin our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.

  We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love;  to remember one another in prayer;  to aid one another in sickness and distress;  to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech;  to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay.

  We moreover engage that when we remove from this place we will as soon as possible unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this convenant and the principles of God’s Word.

                                                                                          

 

 

 

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