OUR PURPOSE
The mission of Grace Baptist Church is to make disciples…
and to equip them for service…
for the pleasure and glory of God.
- “Go ye therefore, and teach [make disciples of] all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen” (Matthew 28:19–20).
- “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
- “Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24:46–48).
- “As my Father hath sent Me, even so send I you” (John 20:21).
- “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me…unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
and to equip them for service…
- “And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting [equipping] of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:11–13).
for the pleasure and glory of God.
- “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,“ and “thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself“ (from Matthew 22:37–40).
- “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created” (Revelation 4:11).
- “Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen” (Ephesians 3:21).