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History |
In February 1964, New Hope Baptist Church was founded with seventy-six charter members and was located at the Elm Grove School in East Lexington Road in Independence, Missouri.
Following a fire, which destroyed the Elm Grove School, the church relocated to an old church building at the present location in 1965.
The congregation grew and responded with expansion efforts that included the dedication of a new auditorium in 1978 and construction of a gymnasium in 1983.
Interim Pastor Jimmy Kolar serve the church at the outset and yielded to Reverend Chester ware who pastured from 1964 to 1966.
Reverend Eugene Whelan became pastor in the fall of 1966 and served until June of 1999.
Pastor David Love first preached at New Hope Baptist Church on February 28, 1999, was voted to become pastor on March 28, 1999 and assumed the duties of pastor on July 4, 1999.
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Statement of Faith |
New Hope Baptist Church acknowledges only one GOD who exists in three divine personalities.
They are GOD the Father, GOD the Son, and GOD the Holy Spirit.
New Hope Baptist Church teaches that Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD and Himself deity, became flesh.
His purpose for becoming a man, was to die for the sins of all men and women.
New Hope Baptist Church realizes that the salvation of mankind is totally dependent upon the sovereign grace of GOD and through faith in Jesus Christ.
It is available to all who believe Works, with or without faith, has no saving value. However, good works will result from salvation.
To obtain membership in New Hope Baptist Church, one must trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
When an individual does this, he or she will become saved and given eternal life with Christ.
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Mission Statement |
The mission of New Hope Baptist Church is to fulfill the Great Commission, which Christ gives to the church in Matthew, chapter 28, verses 19 and 20.
We accomplish this by the spreading of the gospel and by doing the work of evangelism both corporately and individually.
Included in this is the equipping of the saints through teaching in Sunday School and various Bible Study classes.
New Hope is committed to the training and nurturing of our adults, young adults, youth and children, as well as providing other types of social and academic training.
New Hope contributes finances and other resources to foreign mission, home mission, and other mission causes.
New Hope receives new members, and has meaningful worship services, including the administering of the ordinances of Baptism.
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Doctrinal Statement |
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the verbal and plenary inspired Word of God.
The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life.
The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man.
The scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning.
We believe in one GOD who exists in three Divine persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (I John 5:7-8).
The Trinity, as God is called, though largely incomprehensible to the human mind, is a Biblical fact that must be accepted by faith.
GOD the Father, GOD the Son, and GOD the Holy Spirit, has lived from eternity past and is eternal in nature.
We believe in one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. (Ephesians 4:5)
We believe that all humans are sinners and need to be saved. (Romans 3:10-12, Romans 3:23).
The enemy of GOD and adversary of all Christians is a created devil or Satan (I Peter 5:8).
All who reject Jesus will be judged by GOD for their sins and condemned to eternal damnation in hell with Satan.
We believe that salvation is wholly of GOD (John 1:12-13), that Christ purchased us with His blood (Acts 20-28, Ephesians 2:12-13), that we are saved by grace and not by works (Ephesians 2:8-9), and that the two conditions of salvation are faith and repentance (Luke 13:3, John 3:15-16).
However, true salvation will result in good works (James 2:17-20).
We believe that salvation is eternal (John 3:14-18, John 10:28-29, Romans 8:33-39).
We believe that the church is to be a regenerated membership (John 3:3, Acts 2:41-44) and that it has the responsibility of spreading the gospel to the world (Matt 28:19-20, Acts 1:8).
We believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of GOD and Himself deity, became flesh (John 1:14).
He was conceived and born of a virgin upon whom the Holy Ghost had come (Matt 1:18-22).
His purpose for becoming a man was to die for the sins of mankind.
Man was alienated from GOD through sin and reconciliation was necessary.
The form of that reconciliation was ordained that the Son of GOD be crucified on a cross (Matt 16:21, Mark 8:31).
On the third day after His crucifixion, Jesus was raised from the dead (I Cor 15:3-4).
We believe that Christ is the founder of the church and its only head (Matt 16:18, Colossians 1:18).
We believe in and support the rights of the individual. Everyone must seek GOD for himself (Acts 17:26-27).
Everyone must repent for himself (Acts 17:30).
Everyone must confess for himself (Romans 10:9-10). Everyone must give an account for himself (Romans 14:11-12).
We believe in the democracy of the church and that every member is equal. (Acts 1:14-15).
We believe that GOD has given the pastor as a gift to the church.
He is to oversee, lead, preach, teach, correct, and pray for the church.
The church is to respect, follow, obey, accept correction from, and pray for the pastor (Eph 4:11-15, II Tim 4:1-5, I Thes 5:12-13, Hebrews 13:17).
We believe and accept as ordinances, only the two, ordered by Jesus Christ, which symbolize the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ; namely, Baptism and the Lord's Supper or Communion (Matt 28:19-20, Romans 6:3-5, I Cor 11:23-26).
We believe in the second coming of Christ (John 14:1-4, Acts 1:11), the immortality of the human soul (I Cor 15:53-55), the resurrection of the body (I Cor 15:42-44), the final judgment of a just GOD (Matt 25:31-33), and the never ending punishment of the lost and the eternal bliss of the saints (Matt 25:34-36).
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