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Our Vision
At Beech Street First Baptist Church, our Be Values help us to stay focused on our mission of fulfilling the Great Commission and daily becoming more like Christ.
BELIEVE
We value the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the Good News that is able and available to transform any and all people. We believe that God loves all people and desires a relationship. But that relationship has been cutoff by sin and our choices/ decisions to go our way, instead of God's.
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We believe that without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, individuals are lost and separated from God. To live and die without Jesus Christ only leads to emptiness and eternal death and separation from God.
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But, the Good News is that God has reached out to us with a plan to repair...restore...remake what has been broken by sin. And at the heart of that plan is Jesus Christ. The decision to receive or reject Jesus is one that every life must face. There is no issue of greater importance that every person must deal with.
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To begin a personal relationship with Jesus, one must first ADMIT that they are a sinner and unable to fix/address the issue of separation from God and death (Romans 3.23; 6:23). Then, one must BELIEVE that placing faith and trust is Jesus and His work is enough. Jesus has done the work to make the way to God, we must simply respond to His work on our behalf (Romans 10.11-12; Ephesians 2.8-9) And finally, one must CONFESS or CALL on God in a personal way for this relationship. God always hears a genuine call and cry for Him (Romans 10.9-10, 13)
BELONG
We value the family of God. We believe that a major role of the Church is to provide community for those who have become part of the family of God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. A Christian is never intended to live out faith in isolation. You are never at your best when you are alone.
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Becoming part of a New Testament Church is essential for a follower of Jesus. It provides you a people and a place to belong. Acts 2.42 says, "And they devoted themselves to the apostle's teaching, to fellowship, to breaking of bread, and to prayer." Acts 4.32-35 gives the example of the early church. "Now the entire group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common. With great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on all of them."
At the heart of the family that you belong to is our small groups. Our small groups are based on age and "place in life." It is important for you to connect with others in a smaller setting to
study and discover God's word and to live together in a spiritual community of service and encouragement and accountability.
BECOME
We value ministry and service beyond the location of the local church. God has placed us in Texarkana to have a heart for our city and beyond. Every person who has believed in/on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and who has connected and found their place to belong to the local church, next makes the move to become involved in ministry and service.
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God has gifted every believer with unique and needed abilities for the impact and growth of the Church on others. Every believer has a part to play and become!
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As Acts 1.8 reminds us, Jesus has called us to engage our city, our region, our nation, and our world with the Gospel. This is a task that cannot be accomplished by any other organization. The Church... made up of believers has the responsibility to become the hands and feet and eyes and ears and more of Jesus Christ!
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You will notice that the BE values build upon one another in a circular fashion. Once we believe in Jesus, we must make a connection with a New Testament church and find a spiritual family to belong to. Then, we become involved in ministry to engage and touch a lost and hurting world. In the action of become, we will engage those who need to hear of life's most important issue, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Now you see, the cycle that we value and the process we pray happens over and over until Jesus Christ returns.