1) What should I expect to happen when I arrive? What are your services like? (click to expand)
Upon arrival expect a warm welcome from a friendly congregation. You can expect a blend of traditional hymns and uplifting, biblically affirming modern music. You will experience in-depth expository messages from our pastor.
For those with children, we provide nursery and a fun yet enriching children’s church.
Sunday afternoon, expect a more in depth look into the scriptures from the morning message.
Wednesday night we meet for prayer, Bible study and fellowship.
On the second Saturday of the month, enjoy our church supper where you can get to know our church family.
2) Where do I park? (click to expand)
We have parking in front of the church and there is additional parking in the back of the building.
3) What is your typical attire? (click to expand)
Those who attend First Baptist Church of Port Salerno wear varied attire from suit and tie and dresses to jeans and t-shirts. Come as you are.
4) Is child care available? (click to expand)
Yes we have childcare. We have several loving volunteers who will care for your baby and/or toddlers in our nursery. Children kindergarten to fifth grade will enjoy children’s church.
5) What do you believe and teach? (click to expand)
We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are
dependent.
Matt. 22:35-40; John 13:34, 35; John 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Rev. 2:4, 5
We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.
Psalm 119:160; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17
We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection.
Matt. 28:19
We believe in the Genesis account of Creation.
Gen. 1; 2
We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.
Isa. 14:12-15; Ezek. 28:11-19; Matt. 25:41; 2 Cor. 4:4; Eph. 6:10-17; Rev.
20:10
We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.
Matt. 1:18-20; 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22
We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.
John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19
We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ
in His churches.
Luke 24:49; John 14:16, 17; Acts 1:4, 5, 8; Acts 2:1-4
We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done
away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope and Love are the vital
abiding Spiritual Gifts.
1 Cor. chapters 12-14
We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in
innocence until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the
result being that all mankind are sinners.
Gen. 1:26; Gen. 3:6-24; Rom. 5:12, 19
We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was
substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe.
Isa. 53:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2
We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the
bodily resurrection of His saints.
Matt. 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Cor. 15:42-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18
We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the
crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of
the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the
resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire
and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age.
John 14:1-6; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 2 Thess. 2:8; Rev. 19; Rev. 20:4-6;
Rev. 20:11-15; Rev. 21:8
We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through
faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance
toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Luke 13:3-5; John 3:16-18;
Acts 20:21; Rom. 6:23; Eph. 2:8, 9, and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners,
regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer.
John 3:6; John 16:8, 9; Rom. 8:9-11; 1 Cor. 6:19, 20; Eph. 4:30; Titus 3:5
We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally
secure in Him and shall not perish.
John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Rom. 8:35-39; Heb. 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5
We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He
chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient.
Matt. 16:27; Matt. 25:14-23; John 1:12; Heb. 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Rev. 22:12
We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry
on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally
baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing
body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We
believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament
churches only, and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches.
Matt. 4:18-22; Matt. 16:18; Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 1:14-20;
John 1:35-51; Eph. 3:21
We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord’s
churches: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Scriptural baptism is the
immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a
New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The
Lord’s Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the
church observing the ordinance.
Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 8:12, 38; Rom. 6:4; 1 Cor. 5:11-13; 1 Cor. 11:1, 2, 17-20,
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We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church,
pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in
Titus and 1 Timothy.
We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and
properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches.
Matt. 20:25-28
We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the
government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and
regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures.
Rom. 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-15
We believe the Bible definition of marriage is the union between a man
and a woman.
Gen. 2:21-24; Matt. 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Cor 7:2-4; Eph. 5:22-31
We believe God designates each individual their gender. God ordained
two genders, male and female. Mankind does not possess the authority to
identify themselves differently than their biological sex assigned by God,
and any attempts to alter ones gender is sin.
Gen. 1:27, 5:2; Matt 19:4; Mark 10:6; Job 40:8; Jer 13:23