The choice of a place to worship is a very personal decision. If you are not comfortable in your church you will eventually loose motivation in attending regularly and even quit going to church altogether. Ask yourself is this really what I want in my life?
This page is an overview of who we are and some of the groups within the church that provide tremendous fellowship opportunities. If you go to the Photo Gallery section of our website you will see we love to get together for all religious and US holidays and have a good time - and even sometimes for no particular reason whatsoever! And as we do so we all share a church family bond that makes one comfortable in being solid Christians.
Our members ages:
0 - 18 years - 58
18-25 years - 24
25-35 years - 35
35-49 years - 15
50-65 years - 30
Over 65 years - 39
And our professions:
Medical - 12 Railroad -2
Maintenance - 11 Bankers - 2
Education - 10 Hair stylists - 2
Military - 10 Engineers - 2
Small Bus. Owner - 9 Real Estate/Insurance - 2
Sales -5 Communications - 1
Police/Fire - 4 Artist - 1
Homemaker - 3 Truck Driver - 1
Secretary - 3 Retired/Disabled - 39
Here are the "Groups" within our Church:
Many of us feel more comfortable interacting in a smaller group. Here are some of those at Crossroads Freewill Baptist:
Choir Women Active for Christ Trailblazers (seniors) Praise Team
Here is a summary of what we believe:
GOD
We believe that God is the Creator, Sustainer, and Righteous Ruler of the universe. He has revealed himself in nature, and in the scriptures of the Holy Bible as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: yet as one God.
JESUS CHRIST
He is God's unique son; the only one of a kind. The scripture teaches that He is God revealed in flesh. In His divine nature He truly is God and in his human nature He is man. He is the one once crucified for man's sin, the now risen and glorified savior and Lord who mediates between God and man and who gives us access to the Father through His intercession. None can come to the Father unless they come through Him.
HOLY SPIRIT
All of the attributes of God are ascribed to the Holy Spirit by the scriptures. It is He who convicts and convinces men of their sin. He also convinces man of that which is right, and that a final day of judgment will come. He, it is, who comes to live in us at conversion, to open our understanding to the scripture, and to lead us into the truth.
THE BIBLE
God used holy men to write the scriptures. They are, in both the Old and New Testaments, the very words God intended us to have. They are, as given by God, without error and are our only rule of faith and practice. We profit from them by learning the truth about many things; they even correct us and get us back on course as well as instructing us in right living.
MAN
God created man in a state of innocence. Man, being tempted by Satan, yielded and willfully disobeyed God, becoming a sinner and incurring God's judgment upon sin. All of Adam's descendants inherit his fallen nature and thus have a natural inclination to sin. When one comes to an age of accountability, he guilty of sinning before God and is in need of salvation.
SALVATION
Man receives pardon and forgiveness for his sins when he admits to God that he is a sinner when in godly sorrow he turns from them and trusts in the work of Christ as redemption for his sin. This acceptance of God's great salvation involves belief of Christ's death on the cross as man's substitute and the fact of God's raising him from the dead as predicted. It is a salvation of grace alone and not of works.
WHO CAN BE SAVED?
It is God's will that all will be saved, but since man has the power of choice, God saves only those who repent of their sin and believe in the work of Christ on the cross. Those in this life who refuse to repent and believe have no later chance to be saved and thus condemn themselves to eternal damnation by their unbelief.
BAPTISM
We believe the Bible teaches Baptism in water by immersion as a symbolic identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. We also believe it to be symbolic of the washing away of sins and the rising up of a new life in Christ. Baptism is most certainly a public profession of one's faith in Christ.
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING
The Bible teaches that Jesus Christ, who ascended on high and sits at the right hand of God will come again to close the gospel dispensation, glorify His saints, and judge the world.