Dear Friends,
On behalf of our Church, welcome to our website.
Faith Baptist Church is a Confessional, Reformed, Baptist congregation. As a Confessional church, we adhere to the New Hampshire Confession
of Faith as the best summary for the teaching found in the Bible and to the five Solas of the Reformation. As a Reformed church, we believe in the doctrines
of grace and have traditional worship focused on prayer, hymn and Psalm singing, Scripture reading, observing the ordinances, and preaching. As a Baptist church,
we believe that only regenerate individuals should be baptized by immersion and that the local congregation is autonomous. We trace our heritage back to the
Particular Baptists in the 17th Century of England. Our church shares similar doctrinal beliefs with Andrew Fuller, William Carey, and Charles Spurgeon.
This Church’s goal is to have the Biblical teaching warm our hearts to worship God and tell others about Him. We accomplish it by preaching God’s Word with
application to our soul. Through preaching Christ crucified, prayer, and loving one another, Jesus Christ will build His Church for His glory.
I invite you to come to our Sunday service at 11:00am. We would enjoy meeting you and answering any questions.
In Christ,
Pastor Brandon Rhea
OUR HISTORY
In 1978, Faith Baptist Church started meeting in
homes. The Hardens, Webbers, and Walkers served
the founding members.
The church eventually
rented the upstairs of Slaughter Printing to hold their
meetings. When the Church of God built a new
building on the
south side of Kirksville, Faith Baptist
Church bought their old building which is the church’s
current location.
Taken from our church constitution, our statement of purpose is as follows:
The foremost purpose of Faith Baptist Church, in love and obedience to her Savior and covenant Head, the Lord Jesus Christ, is to worship the triune God in
spirit and truth (John 4:24) by continuing steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in observing the ordinances, and in prayers (Acts 2:42),
which require the members to assemble themselves together (Hebrews 10:25) and through this ministry that the elect might be saved (2 Timothy 2:10; John 17:2;
Matthew 28:18-20) and that the members of this church, both individually and collectively, through a proper exercise of spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 13; Romans 12:6)
sovereignty bestowed at regeneration (1 Corinthians 12:13, 18), might be built up in the unity of the faith (Eph. 4:13) unto godliness (Titus 1:1) to speak the truth
in love (Eph. 4:15) so each member, by good works, might glorify the Father who is in heaven (Matthew 5:16).