First Baptist Church

Just added a new article "Scripture Verses that Provide Comfort" - here's a sampling of the verses

But thanks be to God who giveth us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians15:57

Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to Him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creator. I Peter 4:19

For this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. Nehemiah 8:10

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeremiah 29:11

Jesus said the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against the institution of the church (Matthew 16:18). However, across the United States, many Bible-believing Baptist churches close their doors each year. According to Bob Larson, BIMI church planter, 850 Baptist churches closed their doors last year. How can a church go from being passionate about fulfilling the Great Commission to closing its doors? Davis Huckabee offers a few ways to kill a church:

New Testament churches do not naturally die; they are so constituted that they cannot die a natural death. They may, however, be killed, but even in this, they can hardly be killed by outsiders except by the annihilation of the entire membership. Churches are most often killed from the inside; their own members kill them. A church is not just an organization; it is also an organism -- a living thing, and as such, it has the potential of either growing and thriving, or of languishing and dying. The Lord promised that His church, considered as an institution, would not die, (Matthew 16:18), but this only means that there will be a continuity of churches like the Jerusalem church until His return; it does not guarantee the continued existence of any individual church.

How then may a church be killed?

Read about how to kill a church