Our Mission:
Greater South Central Missionary Baptist Church aspires to produce an environment of Prayer, Christ-centered Worship, Ministry, Evangelism, Discipleship and Fellowship.
 

Our Vision:
To fulfill our mission by embracing the living God through life changing and reverent worship services, sincere and relevant relationships, growing and reproducing Christian faith, opportunities to support and do mission, and daily prayer.

To challenge and encourage those in our congregation to live as believers, learn as disciples, and love as Christ loved. We here at Greater South Central MBC seek to strengthen the way people think, feel, and act about Church by offering meaningful experiences through the elements of worship, fellowship, discipleship, missions and prayer.

To help people become spiritually confident, competent, and conscientious servants of God who will make an indelible contribution to the welfare of society through community and ministry-based initiatives that enhance the overall spiritual and moral condition of the world. We seek to provide life-changing experiences of worship, fellowship, discipleship, and ministry that compel members to intentionally reach out to the lost at every age and stage of life, touching lives within the community, county, city, state, and finally globally with the love of God.
 

Our Purpose:
Our purpose is to create a natural genuine Christian environment based on the integral components found in Acts 2:42-47. We believe that Worship, Fellowship, Discipleship, Missions, and Prayer are necessary basic components within the Church to build a healthy congregation. In addition, evangelism should flow through each aspect of these components.

We will employ five strategies to implement our purpose. These strategies will be implemented through the basic components of worship, fellowship, discipleship, missions, and prayer.

1. Invite:

Every believer will be encouraged to build relationships with non-believers.

2. Include:

New believers and guests are welcomed and included in the numerous church ministries of Greater South Central MBC.

3. Invest:

Growing Christians will be offered opportunities to develop in ministry and leadership by being mentored or involved in hands-on training activities, discipleship training, and seminars and practical training for those called in ministry.

4. Involve:

Involvement is vital to the spiritual growth of a believer and it is also essential if the Church is going to fulfill its mission. We encourage members to attend our worship service(s) on a regular basis, become involved in one primary area of service (community days, etc.) become involved in a group fellowship such as Sunday School or Bible Study, and intentionally developing a relationship with someone who is an un-churched neighbor, co-worker, or a friend.

5. Inspire:

We seek to inspire believers to invest their lives in others by:

Fulfilling the Great Commandment

Matthew 22:37-40

Fulfilling the Great Commission

Matthew 28:19-20

What We Believe:  

The Bible

We accept the scriptures of both the Old and New Testament to be the inerrant, infallible, verbally inspired word of God; and that they are the supreme and final authority for faith and practice. We deny that other books are inspired by God in the same way as the Bible. (II Timothy 2:15; 3:16-17; II Peter 1:21
 

Godhead
We believe in the Trinity of God, and that the God head eternally exists in three persons, and that these three are one God, but separate in personality and work.

1. God the Father: The one true and living God, the creator and sustainer of all things. The Father is the head of the God head.

2. God the Son: The promised Messiah of the Old Testament, Jesus Christ who was born of the Virgin Mary, hence the God-man. He died on the cross to redeem man, rose again from the dead to justify the believer, ascended to the right hand of God where He intercedes for us, and in the Father’ s own time will return in visible, personal form to overthrow sin and judge the world. 

3. God the Holy Spirit: The one sent from God to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, of judgment, to regenerate and cleanse from sin. He is the resident guide, teacher, and strength of the believer.

We believe that these three are worthy of precisely the same homage, confidence, and obedience. (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 12:29; John 1:14; Acts 5:3-4; II Corinthians 13:14; Hebrew 1:1-3; Revelation 1:4-6).
 

Man Created and Fallen
We believe that man was created innocent, that he was tempted by Satan and sinned; because of this, men have been born in sin since that time and are by nature the children of wrath. Man fell into sin, and is lost, which is true of all men; and except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God; making man incapable of personal salvation and good works before God, thus needing a savior. As a consequence of his sin, man lost his spiritual life, and became subject to the power of the devil. This spiritual death, or total depravity of human nature has been transmitted to the entire human race of man, the man Christ Jesus alone being excepted.
Man is essentially an unchangeably bad apart from divine grace. (Genesis 1:26; 2:17; 6:5; Psalm 14:1-3; John 3:6; 5:40; 6:53; Romans 3:10-19; 8:6-7; Ephesians 2:1-3; I Timothy 5:6; I John 3:8)
 

Salvation Through Christ
We believe that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless born again; and that no morality however high can help man obtain this salvation; but a new nature imparted from above, implanted by the Holy Spirit, is absolutely essential to salvation. We believe that our redemption has been accomplished solely by the blood of Jesus Christ, who was made to be sin and was made a curse for us dying in our place; and that no feeling, no sincere effort, no submission to the rules and regulations of any church, can add in the very least degree to the value of Christ’s blood which was shed for us on the cross.  (Matthew 26:28; John 3:7-18; Romans 5:6-9)
 

Eternal Security
We believe that because of the present and unending intercession of Christ in heaven, because of God’s immutability and unchangeableness, because of the regenerating, abiding presence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of all who are saved, we and all true believers everywhere, once saved shall be kept saved forever. We further believe, however, that God is a holy and righteous Father who does not over look the sin of His children. He will when they persistently sin chasten them and correct them in infinite love; but having undertaken to save them and keep them forever, will in the end present every one of them faultless before the presence of His glory. (John 5:24; 10:27-30; Romans 8:35-39; Philippians 1:6; Hebrews 7:25; 12:5-11)

HEAVEN and HELL

A. Heaven
Heaven is also a literal place where the entire redeemed are to have perfect fellowship with the Triune God, the Holy Angels, and one another. Heaven is a place where Jesus reigns supremely as King, and a state in which subjects serve Him in glad submission. Heaven is a state of perfect happiness. Sin with all its blight will be done away; no more sickness, pain, sorrow, nor death. We shall be changed; our characters will be purged of all iniquity and we shall be good. We shall be like Him. Heaven is an everlasting place where we shall live in His presence throughout eternity. (Luke 16:22, 25; 23:42-43; John 14:2-3 Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23; Revelation 7:9; 21:1-4, 25-27)

B. Hell
The bulk of the New Testament teachings concerning hell is to be found in the recorded sayings of Jesus. The compassionate Savior earnestly warns against the punishment to come. We believe that hell is a literal place (not currently realized in the earth) outside the kingdom of God. It is a state of utter moral depravity and the fulfillment of selfishness. Hell is the climax of rebellion and anarchy. It is the full harvest of sin with all its pollution and defilement. Hell is a state of punishment and suffering beyond the power of the human tongue to describe. (Matthew 25:41, 46; 8:12; 10:28; Luke  16:22-28; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Revelation 20:10-15)
 

Baptism and the Lord’s Supper
The New Testament church has two ordinances: Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are  both symbols and pictures of spiritual truths. They are ordinances that picture the Savior in His act of sacrifice that purchased our salvation.


A. Baptism
The first New Testament ordinance is baptism, which should be administered by complete immersion. The ordinance pictures in graphic form the burial to an old life of sin and the resurrection to a new life in Christ. Any change in the mode of baptism alters the meaning of the ordinance. (Mathew 28:19; Acts 10:47-48; 16:32-33; 18:7-8)


B. The Lord’s Supper
The second of the New Testament ordinances, the Lord’s Supper, was instituted by Christ in the closing of His earthly ministry. It is a picture of a crucified life. Jesus gave us this picture that depicts His broken body. It is observed in remembrance of the fact that Jesus came to make the supreme sacrifice that men might be saved. The fruit of the vine depicts His shed blood. The bread portrays His surrendered body. (Luke 22:19-20; I Corinthians 11:18-34)

Statement of Practical Application

Christian Walk of Life 
We believe that we are called with a holy calling to walk not after the flesh but after the spirit, and so to live in the power of the indwelling spirit that we will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. But the flesh with its fallen, nature of Adam, which in this life is never eradicated, being with us to the end of our earthly pilgrimage, needs to be kept by the spirit constantly in subjection to Christ, or it will surely manifest its presence in our lives to the dishonor of our Lord. (Romans 6:11-23; 8:2, 4, 12-13; Galatians 5:16-23; Ephesians 4:22-24; Colossians 2:1-10; I Peter 1:14-16; I John 1:4-7; 3:5-9)


The Great Commission
We believe that it is the explicit message of our Lord Jesus Christ to those who He has saved that they are sent forth by Him into the world even as He was sent forth of His Father into the world. We believe that after they are saved they are divinely reckoned to be related to this world as strangers and pilgrims, ambassadors and witnesses, and that their primary purpose in life should be to make Christ known to the world. (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 16:15, 19-20; John 17:18; Acts 1:8; II Corinthians 5:18-20;   I Peter 1:17; 2:11)


God’s Plan for Financing the Church 
God has a plan for the financing of the great program of work His church should do. God’s plan was never for man to use worldly schemes to raise money for the spread of His message. God did not plan for His church to have sales, dinners, raffles, or bazaars to raise money. God gives only one plan of church finance in the Bible and that is by the tithes and offerings of His people. The tithe is the tenth, meaning that God’s people are to bring a tenth of their increase to the Lord and His work. Offerings are the amounts given above the tenth. This is the plan that God teaches throughout His word. (Malachi 3:6-10; II Corinthians 9:6-7)