OUR MISSION

It is our mission here at Brotherhood, to do the following: 

1.  Earn the respect of the community.

                a.  By giving to those in need

                b.  By Hospital/Nursing Home Visitation.

                c.  By living what we profess!

  2.  To bridge the denominational gap.

                a.  By joining with other church's in worship.

  3.  To promote our young people.

                a.  By Teen Worship Service

                b.  Through the position of Youth Leaders

                c.  By monthly Youth Nights

                d.  By children's church.

  4.  To promote the family, and it's importance

                a.  Through teaching, preaching and fellowship.

WHAT FREE WILL BAPTISTS BELIEVE

1.

God--We believe that God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Righteous 

Ruler of the universe. He has revealed Himself in nature, and in the 

Scriptures of the Holy Bible as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: yet as 

one God.  

2.

Jesus Christ-He is God's unique Son; the only one of a kind. The 

Scripture teaches that He is God revealed in flesh. In His Divine 

nature He is truly God and in His human nature truly man. He is the 

One once crucified for man's sin, the now risen and glorified Savior 

and Lord who mediates between God and man and who gives us 

access to the Father through His intercession. None can come to the 

Father unless they come through Him.  

3.

Holy Spirit--All of the attributes of God are ascribed to the Holy 

Spirit by the Scriptures. It is He who convicts and convinces men of

their sin. He also convinces man of that which is right, and that a final

 day of judgment will come. He, it is, who comes to live in us at 

conversion, to open our understanding to the Scripture, and to lead 

us into the truth.  

4.

The Bible--God used holy men to write the Scriptures. They are, in 

both the Old and New Testaments, the very words God intended us 

to have. They are, as given by God, without error and are our only 

rule of faith and practice. We profit from them by learning the truth 

about many things: they also speak to us about wrong doing; they 

even correct us and get us back on course as well as instructing us 

in right living.  

5.

Man--God created man in a state of innocence. Man, being tempted 

by Satan, yielded and willfully disobeyed God, becoming a sinner and 

incurring God's judgment upon sin. All of Adam's descendants inherit 

his fallen nature and thus have a natural inclination to sin. When one 

comes to an age of accountability, he is guilty of sinning before God 

and in need of salvation.  

6.

God's Relationship to His Creatures and Creation-God exercises a 

wise and benevolent providence over all beings and things. He 

maintains the laws of nature and performs special acts as the highest 

welfare of mankind and His created order of things require.  

7.

Salvation--Man receives pardon and forgiveness for his sins when 

he admits to God that he is a sinner, when in godly sorrow he turns 

from them and trusts in the work of Christ as redemption for his sin. 

This acceptance of God's great salvation involves belief in Christ's 

death on the cross as man's substitute and the fact of God's raising 

Him from the dead as predicted. It is a salvation by grace alone and 

not of works.  

8.

Who Can be Saved?--It is God's will that all be saved, but since man 

has the power of choice, God saves only those who repent of their 

sin and believe in the work of Christ on the cross. Those who refuse 

in this life to repent and believe have no later chance to be save and 

thus condemn themselves to eternal damnation by their unbelief.  

9.

Perseverance--We believe that there arc strong grounds to hope that

 the saved will persevere unto the end. and he saved because of the 

power of divine grace pledged for their support. We believe that any 

saved person who has sinned (whether we call him a backslider or 

sinner), but has a desire to repent, may do so and be restored to 

God's favor and fellowship. Since man, however, continues to have

free choice, it is possible because of temptations and the weakness 

of human flesh for him to fall into the practice of sin and to make 

shipwreck of his faith and be lost.  

10.

Gospel Ordinances--Free Will Baptists believe the Bible teaches 

three ordinances for the church to practice: Baptism in water by 

immersion, the Lord's Supper, to be perpetuated until His return, 

and the Washing of the Saints' feet, an ordinance teaching humility.  

11.

Resurrection--Free Will Baptists believe the Scriptures teach the 

resurrection of the bodies of all men, each in its own order; they that 

have done good will come forth to the resurrection of life, and they 

that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation.  

12.

Church Government--Free Will Baptist churches enjoy local church 

autonomy (self-governing). The local church is the highest authority 

in the denomination. Local churches voluntarily organize themselves

into quarterly meetings, district, state, and national associations for 

the purpose of promoting the cause of Christ on the local, state, 

district, national, and world-wide level.  

13.

Christ's Second Coming--The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, who 

ascended on high and sits at the right hand of God, will come again to 

close the Gospel dispensation, glorify His saints, and judge the world.

14.

Missions--Free Will Baptists believe that Jesus commanded the 

church to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 

creature. For an in-depth study of Free Will Baptist beliefs and 

practices, ask for a copy of the Free Will Baptist Treatise