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Our Mission

Calvary Baptist Church exists to represent the reign of God as community, servant, and messenger. 

Mission

Core Values

Because We Value God, We Desire To Be A...

  • Worshipping Community

  • Praying Community

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This is evident in the gathering of the saints for corporate worship as well as lives that are evidence of living worshipful lives throughout the week. We know that the power of strength for life, ministry and service comes through unifying as a body in prayer. We desire to pray that His Name, Kingdom and Will be accomplished in us and through us just as it is in Heaven.

Because We Value God's Story, We Desire To Be A...

  • Learning Community

  • Teaching Community

  • Discerning Community​

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We desire to be life-long learners to know more about God and His people. Our priority is to make known the truths of God’s Word through teaching. As a discerning community we desire to think through the context of the story using it as a framework to discern between right and wrong; good, better and best; created goodness versus fallen creation, so that we can best live out the story each day.

Because We Value God's People, We Desire To Be A...

  • Caring Community

  • Discovering Community

  • Equipping Community

  • Family Community​

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As a caring community we desire to care for the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of those in the body. As part of this caring is the desire to help the body discover their spiritual giftedness, abilities and value in order to serve the body. Once a person has discovered their giftedness we desire to equip them in order to best utilize their gifts, whether through class, discipleship or mentoring. We desire each member of the body to be fulfilled in the function of the church. With equipping we desire families to be intimately involved in this process of discovering and equipping with their own children, because we value families.

Because We Value God's World, We Desire To Be A...

  • Serving Community

  • Compassionate Community

  • Evangelizing Community​

 

As a serving community we will reach out to those in our community instead of just meet our own body needs. This is out of a desire to show our surrounding community God’s concern for justice and mercy. At the same time, we desire to be compassionate to those in our community, showing them God’s love, grace and peace. This compassion is shown to those who are like us, but more importantly to those who are different from us, either physically, mentally, or socio-economically. As an outpouring of our hearts, compassion should prompt us to share with those we encounter God’s story and how it will change their life. Through training and equipping we desire our church body to know how to tell the whole story to the whole person to the whole world. As we tell the story, we want others to not only hear this story but see it evidenced in our lives as we daily submit to the reign of God.

Core Values

Church Covenant

Having been led, as we believe, by the Spirit of God to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God, angels, and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another, as one body in Christ.

We promise, therefore, by the help of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church in knowledge, holiness and encouragement; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to give it a sacred pre-eminence over all institutions of human origin; and to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations.

We also promise to maintain family and personal devotions; to educate our children in the truths of Christ and His Word; to seek the salvation of our family and acquaintances; to walk with alertness and wisdom in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our commitments, and exemplary in our actions; to avoid all bitterness, gossip, slander, and excessive anger; to abstain from both morally destructive behavior and harmful addictions; and to be zealous in our efforts to represent the kingdom of our Savior.

We promise to exercise Christian love in areas where the Bible does not clearly define what specific action should be taken. In such cases, we will be governed by the biblical principles of Christian liberty as we ask the following three questions. Will this action control me or will I control it? Will this action cause a brother or sister to fatally fall? Is this action fitting?

We further promise to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember each other in prayer; to assist each other in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and truthfulness in speech; and to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation, and remembering the commands of our Savior, to secure it without delay. We also promise, that when we move from this place, we will as soon as possible unite with some other church, where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.

Chuch Covenant

Articles of Faith

Articles o Faith

Verbal Inspiration of the Bible

We believe the Holy Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, to be verbally inspired of God in the original documents, infallible and God-breathed, a perfect rule of faith and practice. 2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:19-21; 1 Corinthians 2:12-13; Proverbs 30:5

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The Triune God

We believe in the Triune God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – who is holy, loving, good, wise and almighty; who has created his world out of nothing, who sustains, provides for and rules all things, who is our only Redeemer and who will judge all people. Luke 3:21-22; Matthew 28:19-20; Ephesians 1:3-14

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God the Father

We believe in the person of God the Father who sends both God the Son and God the Holy Spirit in redemptive history. We believe that the Father has provided a great salvation for those who repent of their sins and trust Christ and His finished work through the Holy Spirit; that He calls, regenerates, justifies, forgives, adopts, sanctifies, keeps and will glorify them. John 14:26; Romans 8:28-39; John 4:24

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God the Son

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Son of God and God the Son, the only mediator between God and humans, who added full humanity to his perfect deity through the virgin birth, obeyed God perfectly, died for our sins on the cross and bodily rose again to defeat Satan, returned to heaven to pour out the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and to intercede for his people. John 14:1-11; 1 Timothy 2:5; Colossians 1:15-20; Hebrews 1; Philippians 2:5-11

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God the Holy Spirit

We believe in the person of the Holy Spirit who has been sent to complete and perfect in us all of the works that Jesus did for us. He convicts, regenerates, sanctifies, gifts us for ministry and assures us of our salvation. While we believe in the continued expression of the spiritual gifts, we further believe that the more demonstrative or “sign gifts” such as healing, raising the dead, and speaking in tongues were essentially given for the authentication of the apostolic generation and are not normative for today. Romans 8:1-27; John 16:7-15;1 Corinthians 12; 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

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Humanity

We believe that God created men and women in His image and likeness for fellowship with Himself and to carry out the creation ordinances, that Adam sinned and that through his disobedience the entire race was alienated from God and is born depraved and totally lost. We further affirm that all human life is sacred and to be protected since it is the image of God. Genesis 1-3; Romans 5:12-21; Isaiah 53:6; Psalm 139:13-16

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Salvation

We believe that God freely justifies His people by granting them faith in the sinless life, shed blood, and resurrection of Jesus the Christ. This faith receives and rests on Christ and His righteousness alone. Thus, believers are born again by grace through faith apart from works. Ephesians 2:8-10; John 3:16-18; Acts 4:8-12; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 5:1-9

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A Personal Devil

We believe that Satan is a person, that he is a fallen angel, that he is the deceiver of humanity, and that someday, God will cast him into the lake of fire. Ezekiel 28:13-14; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 12:9-10; Revelation 20:10

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Heaven and Hell

We believe that heaven is a place prepared for all born-again believers. We further believe that hell is a place prepared for the devil and his angels and those who die in unbelief. John 14:1-6; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 2 0 : 1 4 – 1 5 ; Revelation 21:1-8

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Baptism and Communion

We believe that Jesus gave two ordinances to the church, baptism of believers by immersion and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is an act of obedience to the command of Christ and is a testimony to the world of the believer’s faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Matthew 28:19-20; Romans 6:1-5
We believe that communion (the Lord’s Supper) is a symbolic ordinance, picturing Christ’s body given for our sins and His blood shed for our redemption. The Lord’s Supper is not a saving ordinance, but helps us to remember Jesus’ death as we look forward to His coming again. This ordinance is to be observed by regenerate, obedient believers. 1 Corinthians 11:23-34; 1 Corinthians 10:16; Luke 22:17-20

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Eternal Security

We believe that once a person is born again, he cannot lose his salvation, that he is eternally secure in the Lord Jesus Christ. John 10:27-29; Romans 8:28-29; Ephesians 4:30; 1 Peter 1:3-5

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The Church

We believe that God has established the universal church, the body of Christ, which is composed of all born-again believers of this age and that Christ is the only head of that church. 1 Peter 2:9-10; Colossians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 12:12-27. We believe that local churches are organized manifestations of the universal church and should be comprised of baptized believers associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. Galatians 1:2; 1Corinthians 1:2; Philippians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:1.

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Second Coming of Christ

We believe that Jesus Christ may return at any moment to deliver his people from the coming wrath, defeat the kingdom of Satan, and establish His millennial kingdom. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; John 14:3; Revelation 20

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Resurrection

We believe that there will be a bodily resurrection and final judgment of the just and the unjust resulting in the everlasting blessedness of believers and the everlasting, conscious punishment of the lost. John 5:24-29; 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 20:11-15

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Separation of Church and State

We believe that civil government is of divine appointment and that we are responsible to be good citizens. However, should government command us to violate God’s Word, we must obey God rather than men. Romans 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13; Acts 4:18-20

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Marriage

We believe that Adam and Eve's union as man and woman models God's design for marriage and perpetually stands as God's loving and righteous will for human sexual intimacy.  Marriage is a lifelong, sacred covenant instituted by God and is intended to express the "one flesh" union of a man and a woman.  The marriage union reflects the unity of our triune God and uniquely models the relationship between Christ and the church.

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For a more detailed statement of faith, we encourage you to consult the New Hampshire Confession of Faith, which our church affirms by clicking the button below. 

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