We were well served as a mission for 3 years (1968-1971) by our sponsoring church, the Moore’s Fork Baptist Church, and her pastor, Bro. James K. Gardner. They laid the foundation for us to build upon, with Jesus Christ being the chief corner stone.
As a church, we have stayed on the course they set us on. We have not changed our doctrine, our character, nor the standards that they passed on to us.
Change for the sake of change is foreign to the unchanging Word of God and the eternal person and authority of Jesus Christ. We believe the New Testament Church of the Bible is still the model for New Testament Churches of today, as there is just One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One Spirit, One Body, etc. The world changes, people change, but the truth of God remains the same. It is the duty of each New Testament Church to earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 3).
The truth of these New Testament times is not diverse from the truth of Old Testament times: “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.” 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Our doctrines are only as correct as they agree with the principles that God set forth in the Old Testament. Christianity is the fulfillment of the Old Testament, not the destruction of it: “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:17-19. The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament. The Savior of the Old Testament is the Savior in the New Testament. Sin originates with Satan, not with dispensations of time. What was of Satan in the Old Testament is still of Satan in the New Testament. What was of God in the past, is still of God in the present. God and Satan have not switched places, nor exchanged principles. “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law” 1 John 3:4.
THE TRUTH CHANGES NOT!
SHARING
