ABOUT US

First of all, we'd like to thank you for visiting our site, and we hope, if God leads, that you will consider joining together with us to reach our community with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

 

With that said, no true work can prosper without: 1. A firm desire to serve God. 2. A willingness to sacrifice everything for that cause. 3. A realization that this work is not about us. 4. A sincere love for those that are lost in sin. 5. A willingness to meet sinners where they are. 6. A disdain for the doctrine of the Nicolaitans. 7. An unfeigned love for the brethren. 8. A realization that God moves in answer to prayer. 9. An honest desire to live a holy and righteous life. 10. A strict adherence to the Words of the living God —the A.V. 1611 King James Bible.

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This ministry is, really, the culmination of many things, of which most, if not all, have already been mentioned above. In my many years as a lay preacher, I have come to realize that there is a serious disconnect between the average church and its ministry and that of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though our Lord was "God manifest in the flesh," His demand during His first advent was not that He should be "ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."

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Therefore, if we realize that the ultimate example of a minister (i.e., a servant) was nothing more than the earthly ministry of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, how much more ought we to emulate Him in our service to Him? Though He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, He took not His place among the nobility of His day. Though He owns the cattle on a thousand hills, He lamented and said, "The Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." Though He never once broke any commandments, yet He took his place among publicans and sinners. Though, as Lord of all, He had every right to judge, yet He himself passed no judgment but said, "Neither do I judge thee; go and sin no more." Though He was the Word made flesh and knew all things concerning the Scriptures, He never took it upon Himself to lord that knowledge over others, but rather "condescended to men of low estate" and used His perfect understanding of the Scriptures to bring others to a saving knowledge of Himself.

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If we realize that "whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning,"  how much would a knowledge of Him and His ministry transform the church as we know it? Though even in His own day the people in whom He ministered rightfully deserved the judgment of God (as indeed we all do), yet while bearing their sins in His own body on a tree, He cried, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." And not for theirs only, but also of the whole world. 

Though we can indeed, as believers, identify with the Apostle Paul in his "desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better," let us also identify with him in this: "Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Though we look in earnest "for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our God and Savior Jesus Christ," let us also look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who said, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest." 

Here at Bible Baptist Church Phenix City, we are not a church in the typical sense, and neither do we want to be. Our ministry and its goals are not that we run 300 in Sunday School, or that we build a church in which prominent members of our city would gladly attend. Our ministry is primarily to those who have been bruised by the deceitfulness of sin and satan, to those whose yoke is heavy and burdens too great for them to bear.

When I look around at this lost and dying world and the people of the greater Phenix City area, my heart is ever-broken for those people. They are the ones in whom society has all but rejected: the doper, the drunkard, the harlot, and the down and outer. 

Perhaps no one knows as well as I do that "all we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way." And herein lies the issue of all mankind no matter of their standing in society. Whether you live under the 13th street bridge, off River Road, or Green Island Hills, each and every one of us has a void down deep in hearts that longs to be reconciled to God. And though we try as we ought to fill that void with the things of this world, there is nothing in it that will ever satisfy that longing save the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is the reason we are to weep with those in whom we ought to weep, and we are to rejoice with those in whom we ought to rejoice, and we are to pray earnestly one for another, for our loved ones and friends, and for those of this city that have not the knowledge of God regardless of their standing in the community.

For those of you that, for whatever reason, the Lord has brought to this place, He's not asking you to simply join a church, but to labor together with us in your prayers and in your service to Him. If God has planted you as a believer in this place, then He has ordained that you should labor together with Him in reaching this community for His honor and glory. 

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"Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins." James 5:19-20

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"If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." Philippians 2:1-11