Hope Confirms with Bob Gillespie

The Culture War and the Christian

The Culture War and the Christian

The culture war started back in the Garden of Eden when Satan said.  “You can be your own god and make your own truth.”  Down through history, people have fallen for this lie. In the 1800’s, Darwin put his spin on it and passed it on as proven science. From the philosophy of evolution came Marxism and Nazism where millions were killed to bring in a utopian world without God. In America,  Social Darwinism reigns supreme, resulting in companies and governments who view themselves as god, determining truth and valuing people as only good for the profit they bring.  Today globalism is social Darwinism on steroids, with diabolical plans to control the entire population of the world.  In this cultural war on truth, we find ourselves in today, how do we know what to believe and who to trust?  How do we rise above the evil and act as Salt and Light in this dying culture?  This talk is a harsh dose of reality.

What We Believe

 

 

Our Doctrinal Statement

 

We subscribe to the following fundamentals of our Baptist faith:

We believe in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as verbally inspired of God, and inerrant in the original writing, and that they are of supreme and final authority in faith and life. We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary, a virgin, and is true God and true man.

We believe that man was created in the image of God, that he sinned and thereby incurred not only physical death, but also spiritual death, which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures as representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.

We believe that all who receive by faith the Lord Jesus Christ are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.

We believe in the Eternal Security of the believer; that it is impossible for one born into the family of God to ever be lost.

We believe in the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His Ascension into heaven and His present life there as High Priest and Advocate.

We believe in “that blessed hope,” the personal, premillenial, pretribulation and imminent return of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, when the Church will be “gathered together unto Him.”

We believe in the literal fulfillment of the prophecies and promises of the Scriptures which foretell and assure the future regeneration and restoration of Israel as a nation.

We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust, the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting punishment of the lost.

We believe that the Scriptural ordinances of the church are baptism (immersion) and the Lord’s Supper; that baptism should be administered to believers only as a symbol of their belief in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord and as a testimony to the world of that belief and of their death, burial, and resurrection with Him, and that the Lord’s Supper should be partaken of by believers only to show for His death, till He comes.

We believe that the spiritual gifts of tongues, healings, and prophecies were sign gifts given to verify God’s Word, and with the completion of Scripture, they are no longer exercised. 

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The Struggle is Real: Reaching a Questioning World

How do we reach a world for Christ that is convinced that the Bible is a myth?  How do we teach in church so young people don’t grow up thinking they have outgrown fairytales? This struggle is real, and the church must seriously consider what it is doing, or the exodus of the younger generations will just continue.