Where Jesus is Lord and Everyone is Welcome
Bible Baptist Church is an Independent, Fundamental Baptist Church located in West Point, MS near Columbus AFB & MSU.
Welcome
Service Times and Location
Times:
Sunday School - 0930AM
Sun AM - 1030AM
Sun PM - 5PM
Wed - 7PM
Location:
Bible Baptist Church
58 Prairie View Drive
West Point MS 39773
Questions:
662-275-6177 (Pastor Art’s cell)
Our Mission
Our mission is to honor God by spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Biblical preaching, door-to-door soul-winning, world missions, and discipleship. Each week our desire is to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ so that we can be profitable servants in our Lord’s harvest.
Our Ministries
We offer a variety of ministries and programs for all ages, including youth groups, Bible studies, and outreach programs. Our ministries are designed to help our members grow in their faith and serve others in our community.
Our History
Bible Baptist Church was started in the early 1960’s by a group of three or four families. They called Charles Martin as their first pastor. Under Brother Martin’s leadership the church was formally organized, property was acquired and a building was erected.
In the 1990’s, the church began meeting in the Prairieview Community Center 4 miles east of town. Eventually they were able to purchase 3 acres of land across the road from the Community Center and were able to build at their current location on Prairieview Drive.
During the last several decades the church struggled, experiencing many ups and downs and yet also seeing the blessing of God in the salvation of the lost and the calling of men into full time ministry.
The church is looking to the future with great anticipation of what the Lord will do.
Our Pastor and His Family
Our Pastor and His Family
Bible Baptist Church recently called Art Greenlee to be their next pastor on July 2, 2023.
Pastor Art and his wife Victoria met in 2009 at Faith Baptist Church while Bro. Art was training at Keesler AFB and they were married in 2011. God has blessed them with four wonderful children: Caroline, Adeline, Emmaline, and Art III.
While in another training assignment, God used the preaching of His Word at a church in TX to call Pastor Art into ministry. Bro. Art received his ministry training at Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City, OK.
The Greenlee’s look forward to what God has in store for the Bible Baptist Church family and are excited to get to work ministering in the town of West Point and the nearby Columbus, MS area and CAFB military community.
Our Doctrinal Statement
Our Pastor and His Family
Where we stand on Bible doctrine matters:
1. Doctrine of the Scriptures
We believe in the verbal, complete inspiration of the Scriptures in their original writings and the subsequent preservation of God’s words for future people groups and generations and will never fail. We believe and accept the Masoretic Text of the Old Testament and the Textus Receptus of the New Testament as the original texts in their original Hebrew and Greek languages, respectively, and that King James Bible is God’s preserved translation for English speaking people. (Matthew 23:35, 2 Timothy 3:16, Isaiah 40:8) We reject the idea of textual criticism where the purpose may be to challenge the inerrancy of God’s Word. We also reject the idea of double inspiration or advanced revelations as taught in some circles.
2. Doctrine of the True God
We believe there is one true God (1 Tim 2:5), who is an infinite in His intelligence, power, and presence, and also His holiness, love, mercy, and grace. We believe God is the high king of Heaven and creator and ruler of all. We believe God is a triune being made of three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We believe all three work together in perfect harmony and divine execution of the great and miraculous works of our God. We believe there are pretenders used by Satan to blind mankind (2 Cor 4:4), but we can look to God’s Word, creation, and history to see there is and only has ever been one Jehovah. (Deut 6:4, Isa 43:11, Isa 44:6, Mark 12:29)
3. The Person and Deity of Christ
We believe Jesus Christ our Lord, the Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, came to Earth to reveal God’s love and seek and to save sinners. (Luke 19:10) We believe Jesus accomplished this on the cross as a vicarious and substitutionary sacrifice of Himself for our sins. By His resurrection, we can be confident in both His redemptive work for the remission of our sins and His Lordship. (Romans 14:9) We believe Jesus sits today on the right hand of God the Father and is our High Priest and is our intercessor before God. (Romans 8:34, Hebrews 4:14-16)
4. The Person and Deity of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit was given as a Comforter to those that are saved and a reprove to those that are lost because of their unbelief. (John 16:8-11) We believe the Holy Spirit is the Divine Agent in the regeneration, indwelling, and sealing of believers unto the day of redemption. (2 Corinthians 3:6, Romans 8:9, and Ephesians 1:13-14) We reject the idea of speaking of tongues and healing as seen in the charismatic movement since this was used for God’s purpose temporarily in the Scriptures, but is not the sign of baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit today (1 Corinthians 13:8, 2 Corinthians 12:12, Hebrews 2:3-4)
5. Doctrine of Creation
We believe in the literal creation story as given in Genesis chapters 1-2. We believe in this process taking seven literal 24 hour days. In relation to humans, we believe God made man in His own likeness. We believe God defined humans as one race and two genders (Mark 10:6). We reject any blurring of the lines or confusing of gender. We reject any evolution or other developments outside of God’s creation and we attribute these theories to a human’s unwillingness to attribute creation to their Divine creator and sustainer. (Col 1:17)
6. Doctrine of the Fall of Man
We believe man inherited a sin nature as a result of Adam and Eve’s choice to disobey. We believe this lost condition creates a division between him and God that man cannot fix on his own. We believe this lost condition exists in all humans and there is none righteous before God out of his own merit. (Romans 3:23, Ephesians 2:1-3)
7. Doctrine of the Virgin Birth
We believe the miraculous virgin birth which was prophesized by Isaiah (Isaiah 7:14) was miraculously fulfilled by Mary. There was no other man born this way, nor can there be and this was as a result of the Holy Spirit to signify Jesus as the Son of God. (Matthew 1:18-25) We reject the elevation of Mary to a deity.
8. Doctrine of The Atonement for Sin
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God, who by appointment of the Father freely took upon Himself our nature yet without sin, who honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and who by His death made a full and vicarious atonement for our sins, thus we have redemption through His blood; that His atonement consisted not in setting us an example by His death as a martyr, but was the voluntary substitution of Himself in the sinner’s place, the Just dying for the unjust, Christ the Lord bearing our sins in His own body on the tree; that, having risen from the dead, He is now enthroned in heaven and uniting in His wonderful person the most tender sympathies with divine perfection; and that He is in every way qualified to be a suitable, compassionate, and all-sufficient Savior.
9. Doctrine of Grace in the New Creation
We believe that in order to be saved, sinners must be born again; that the new birth is a new creation in Christ Jesus; that it is instantaneous and not a process; that in the new birth the one dead in trespasses and in sins is made a partaker of the divine nature and receives eternal life, the free gift of God; that the new creation is brought about in a manner above our comprehension, not by culture, not by character, nor by the will of man, but wholly and solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the gospel; that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith and newness of life. (Luke 5:27; John 1:12–13; 3:3,6–7; Acts 2:41; Romans 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:17,19; Galatians 5:22; Ephesians 2:1; 5:9; Colossians 2:13; 1John 5:1)
10. Doctrine of Salvation and Freeness of it
We believe in order for man to save, they must turn to God (“repent”) and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 10:9-17). We believe salvation is by grace through faith. We believe men are justified by faith and that they are sanctified to the Lord to transform into the image of God and be used for His calling and by His grace. (Eph 2:8-10) We reject all points of Calvinism and reformed theology and view the meddling into this thinking as a serious danger to the existence and evangelistic responsibilities of a local church.
11. Doctrine of Justification
We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in Him is Justification; that Justification includes the pardon of sin, and the gift of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done; but solely through faith in the Redeemer’s blood, His righteousness is imputed unto us. (Isaiah 53:11; Habakkuk 2:4; Zechariah 13:1; Acts 13:39; Romans 1:17; 4:1; 5:1–9; 8:1; Galatians 3:11; Titus 3:5–7; Hebrews 10:38)
12. Doctrine of Repentance and Faith
We believe that Repentance and Faith are solemn obligations, and also inseparable graces, wrought in our souls by the quickening Spirit of God; thereby, being deeply convicted of our guilt, danger and helplessness, and of the way of salvation by Christ, we turn to God with unfeigned contrition, confession and supplication for mercy; at the same time heartily receiving the Lord Jesus Christ and openly confessing Him as our only and all-sufficient Savior. (Psalm 51:1–4,7; Isaiah 55:6–7; Mark 1:15; Luke 12:8; 18:13; Acts 2:37–38; 20:21; Romans 10:9–11,13)
13. Doctrine of the Church
We believe the church is a local autonomous body or assembly of baptized believers who have joined themselves to the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission in their local area and in the regions beyond. We believe the head of the church is Christ and that external control by a denomination or other authority is not Biblical. We believe churches are to produce churches and send out missionaries as opposed to being mission board or Bible College sent. We don’t subscribe to the house church movement and we reject the universal church philosophy.
14. Doctrine of the Ordinances
As a Baptist, We believe in the two ordinances of baptism by immersion and the Lord’s Supper. We believe baptism requires the right candidate (one who has turned to God for salvation and has trusted on Jesus for salvation), the right method (water immersion of the whole body), and by the right body (a local Independent, Fundament, Baptist church). We believe baptism doesn’t save, but instead pictures the believer’s faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior and in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Romans 6:4) I reject the idea of infant baptism or baptism by a church, organization, or individual that does not adhere to the Baptist distinctives.
We believe the Lord’s Supper also requires the right candidate (a member of the local Independent, Fundament, Baptist church), at the right body (a local Independent, Fundament, Baptist church), and following the right method (prayerful self-examination and thankfulness of our Lord’s death and anticipation of His second coming). We reject any approach to communion that is done so on the grounds of pragmatism where the goal may be to try to reach/keep non-members as opposed to requiring exclusivity to only saved and baptized members of the local church.
15. Doctrine of the Security of the Believer
We believe once a person has truly become a child of God that he/she is eternally secure and that they will forever be a child of God. They are kept secure by the promise and power of God. (Ephesians 1:13; Philippians 1:6; John 10:28, 29; John 3:16, 36)
16. Doctrine of the Righteous and the Wicked
We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the Spirit of our God, are truly righteous in His esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in His sight wicked, and under the curse, and this distinction holds among men both in and after death, in the everlasting felicity of the saved and the everlasting conscious suffering of the lost. (Genesis 18:23; Proverbs 11:31; 14:32; Malachi 3:18; Matthew 7:13–14; 25:34; Luke 9:26; 16:25; John 8:21; 12:25; Acts 10:34–35; Romans 1:17; 6:16–18,23; 7:6; 1Corinthians 15:22; Galatians 3:10; 1Peter 4:18; 1John 2:7,29; 5:19)
17. Doctrine of Civil Government
We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ; who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the coming Prince of the kings of the earth. (Exodus 18:21–22; 2Samuel 23:3; Psalm 72:11; Daniel 3:17–18; Matthew 10:28; 22:21; 23:10; Acts 4:19–20; 23:5; Romans 13:7; Philippians 2:10–11; Titus 3:1; 1Peter 2:13–14,17)
18. Doctrine of the Resurrection and Return of Jesus Christ and Related Events
We believe Jesus died, was buried, and rose again the third day from the grave (1 Cor 15:4) and that He will return in the same way He was taken up in Acts 1. We believe Jesus will come for His saints before the tribulation period and that Christians are not appointed unto God’s wrath. (1 Thessalonians 5:9) After the tribulation, Jesus will rule and reign on the earth for a thousand years. I reject any teachings that add to or take away from the prophecies given in Revelations and elsewhere related to the Lord’s return. (Rev 22:19)
19. Doctrine of Missions
We believe the church is a body of believers whose mission is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ, both near and abroad. Churches must send and partner with missionaries to avoid becoming inward focused and not self-reproducing. (Matt 28:18-20)
20. Doctrine of the Grace of Giving
We believe scriptural giving is one of the fundamentals of the Faith. 2 Corinthians 8:7, “Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.” We are commanded to bring our gifts into the storehouse (common treasury of the church) upon the first day of the week. 1 Corinthians 16:2, “Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” Under grace we give, and do not pay, the tithe—“Abraham GAVE the tenth of the spoils,” (Hebrews 7:2,4) and this was four hundred years before the law, and is confirmed in the new Testament; Jesus said concerning the tithe, “these ought ye to have done”, (Matthew 23:23). We are commanded to bring the tithe into the common treasury of the church. Leviticus 27:30, “The tithe ... is the Lord’s.” Malachi 3:10, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” In the New Testament, it was the common treasury of the church. Acts 4:34,35,37, “And brought the prices of the things that were sold and laid them down at the apostles’ feet... Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it AT THE APOSTLES’ FEET.”
21. Doctrine of Human Sexuality
We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of marriage between a man and a woman. (Genesis 2:24; Genesis 19:5,13; Genesis 26:8–9; Leviticus 18:1–30; Romans 1:26–29; 1Corinthians 5:1, 6:9; 1Thessalonians 4:1–8; Hebrews 13:4)
We believe that the only legitimate marriage is the joining of one man and one woman, as determined by biological sexual gender at birth. (Genesis 2:24; Romans 7:2; 1Corinthians 7:10; Ephesians 5:22–23) We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God, but that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and women in the home and church. The husband is to be the leader of the home and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church. Accordingly, only men are eligible for licensure and ordination by the church. (Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:18; 1Timothy 2:8–15; 3:45,12)
22. Doctrine of Separation from the World
We believe that all the saved are called unto a life of separation from all worldly and sinful practices. A person, once he has truly accepted Christ as Saviour, is a new creation in Christ and should live a holy, consecrated life. He should separate himself from the world and all its lust in obedience to the command of God. (Romans 12:1-2; I John 2:15-17; II Corinthians 5:17; 6:14-18; I Peter 2:9; II Timothy 2:19)