Our Beliefs
Destination Church is associated with the Southern Baptist Conference
The Bible
was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. All scripture is totally true and trustworthy. All scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is Himself the focus of divine revelation.
God
is the one and only living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal being. He is the creator, redeemer, preserver, and ruler of the universe. God is Holy. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. He reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Man
is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God. Every person possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and love because they are God’s creation and because Christ died for them.
Salvation
involves the redemption of the whole person, and is offered freely to all who follow Jesus Christ as His disciple with Him alone as their Lord and Savior. By His own blood Jesus obtained eternal redemption for the believer. Salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification and glorification. It is both an event, and a process.
A Disciple
is someone who is responding to the love of God by devoting themselves to learning to live and love like Jesus. It is humanity’s most natural and reasonable response to God’s revelation of Himself in the person of Jesus Christ; and it is the defining mark of the true follower of Jesus.
Discipleship
is the process—ordained by God, modeled by Jesus, and empowered by the Holy Spirit— whereby Christians fulfill their scriptural mandate to make disciples. Included in the process are Bible study, transparency, accountability, and sacrificial service in the context of deep and genuine relationship.
Grace
is the glorious display of God’s sovereign goodness, and is infinitely wise, holy, and unchangeable. God’s grace for the believer is forever.
The church
is an autonomous local congregation of baptized disciples of Jesus. Together they observe the two ordinances of Christ, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are governed by His laws. They exercise the gifts, rights and privileges invested in them by His word. They seek to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The New Testament speaks of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, followers from every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Baptism
is the immersion of a disciple of Jesus in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the disciple's faith in a crucified, buried and risen Savior. Baptism is prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper.
The Lord's supper
is a symbolic act of obedience as disciples of Jesus eat the bread and drink the fruit of the vine in memory of the sacrificial death of Jesus and in anticipation of His coming as King of kings and as Lord of Lords.
the lord's day
is the first day of the week. It is a Christian institution for regular observance. The Lord’s Day commemorates the resurrection of Christ from the dead and includes public and private exercises of worship and spiritual devotion.
The kingdom of god
includes His general sovereignty over the universe and His kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. We pray and strive for the kingdom to come and God’s will to be done on earth. The full consummation of the Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.
Last Things
are according to God, in His own time and in His own way and will be the time that God brings the world to its appropriate end. Jesus promises to return personally and visibly in glory to the earth. At that time the dead will be raised and Christ will judge all men in righteousness. The unrighteous will be consigned to everlasting punishment. The righteous will be resurrected and will receive their reward and will live forever in Heaven with the Lord.
Evangelism and missions
are God given privileges given to every follower of Christ and to every church and include endeavors to make disciples of all nations. It is the privilege of every believer to seek always to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ with all people. Personal evangelism is presented by verbal witness which is backed up by Christ-like living and by other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.
Stewardship
includes serving the Lord with our time, talents, and material possessions. We recognize that all of these have been entrusted to us to use for the glory of God and for helping others.
The Family
is ordained by God as the foundational institution of human society. The family is composed of those related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
Marriage
is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a life time.
Children
from the moment of conception are a blessing and a heritage from the Lord. Children are to learn spiritual and moral values from their parents. Parents are to lead their children to make choices based on Biblical truth.
The gospel Of the kingdom
at its core, the Gospel, or the good news, is that our Creator, God, has revealed Himself to mankind – and that we can freely respond to this revelation. He has revealed Himself through nature, the Bible, the coming of His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Spirit.
