Our Mission
The mission of First Baptist Church of Stuart is
to exalt our Savior, Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit by
equipping the saints to evangelize the sinners into obedient citizens of
the Kingdom of Christ in the context of the local New Testament Church.
Our Beliefs
- We believe the
Bible is the Word of God, supernaturally inspired, so that it is
inerrant in the original manuscripts and preserved by God in its verbal,
plenary inspiration, so that it is a divinely authoritative standard for
every age and every life.
- We believe the
Godhead exists eternally in three persons - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- and that these three are one God.
- We believe God is
the absolute and sole creator of the universe, and that creation was by
divine feat, not through evolutionary process.
- We believe God,
by His sovereign choice and out of love for men, sent Christ into the
world to save sinners.
- We believe Jesus
Christ in the flesh was both God and man, that He was born of a virgin
and that He lived a sinless life, in which He taught and wrought mighty
works and wonders and signs exactly as revealed in the four Gospels,
that He was crucified, died as a penalty for our sins and was raised
from the dead bodily on the third day. Later He ascended to the
Father's right hand where He is the head of the church and intercedes
for believers, and from whence He is coming again personally, bodily,
visibly to this earth to set up His millennial kingdom.
- We believe that
in His death, by His shed blood, the Lord Jesus Christ made a perfect
atonement for sin, redeeming us from the curse of the law by becoming
a curse for us. Men are saved and justified on the simple and single
ground of the shed blood.
- We believe such
salvation with its forgiveness of sins, its impartation of a new nature
and its hope of eternal life, is entirely apart from good works,
baptism, church-membership - or man's effort - and is of pure grace.
- We believe a true
believer is eternally secure, that he cannot lose his salvation, but
that sin may interrupt the joy of his fellowship with God and bring the
loving discipline of his Heavenly Father.
- We believe all
who receive Christ become join-heirs with Christ; at death, their
spirits depart to be with Christ in conscious blessedness; and at the
rapture of their bodies will be raised to the likeness of the body of
His glory and dwell forever in divine presence.
- We believe it is
the goal of every Christian to grow in spiritual maturity through
obedience to the Word of God and the indwelling Spirit.
- We believe the Holy Spirit is a person, is God, and
possesses all the divine attributes. He indwells all believers,
baptizes and seals all believers at the moment of their salvation, and
fills them in response to confession of sin and yielded life.
Our worship services at First Baptist Stuart are a combination of praise
choruses and traditional hymns in a blended worship style featuring our
Celebration Choir, a mix of praise teams, ensembles, men's trio, and gifted
musicians on the instruments. Strong Biblical preaching of truth and
congregational participation is the major emphasis of evangelical worship.