SERVICE TIMES:
Sundays
Sunday School-10am
Sunday Morning Service-11am
Sunday Evening Service-6pm
Thursdays
Groups-5:30pm
Midweek Service-7pm
OUR PASTOR
Born and raised in rural southeastern Georgia, Bro. Cody Zorn was saved and called to preach as a teenager. He worked for several years as assistant pastor, song leader, bus worker, and Sunday school teacher at his local church in Lyons, Georgia: Emmanuel Baptist Church.
Bro. Cody began "cutting his teeth" preaching in nursing homes, prisons, jails, street corners, and various pulpits. During this time God impressed on his heart to step out into the field of evangelism. Since that time God has used Bro Zorn across the country as well as overseas.
He has travelled the country with his wife Tristan and their four children: Esther, Abigail, Cody Jr. and Charity.
The Zorn family now makes their home in Rockwell, NC where Bro. Zorn is the Pastor of the Bible Missionary Baptist Church. Bro. Zorn accepted the call to be the Pastor of this church in January of 2018. Along with his duties as Pastor he still maintains a fairly busy evangelistic preaching schedule. His ministry, as always, is still...Relevant in the present, Rooted in the past!
CHURCH STAFF
Skip Elkins
Deacon
Jack Lutrick
Minister of Music
Sheila Elkins
Secretary
Mike Stogner
Treasurer
Michael Holshouser
Internet Outreach Ministry Manager
SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS
Skip & Sheila Elkins
9-11 Yr Old Sunday School Teachers
John & Jana Culp
6-8 Yr Old Sunday School Teachers
Jacob & Amanda Moses
3-5 Yr Old Sunday School Teachers
John & Amanda Glenn
12-18 Yr Old Sunday School Teachers/Teen Youth Directors
JUNIOR CHURCH STAFF
Matthew & Monica Hunter
Junior Church Directors
Bill & Ellen Tyson
Junior Church Staff
Charlie and Christina Culler
Junior Church Staff
Cliff & Amy Jackson
Junior Church Staff
Jacob & Amanda Moses
Junior Church Staff
Mike & Marsha Eudy
Junior Church Staff
OUR CORE BELIEFS
The Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Bible, as it is in truth, the Word of God… (I Thessalonians 2:13). We believe in verbal, plenary inspiration in the original writings, and God’s preservation of His pure words to every generation (II Timothy 3:16, Psalms 12:6-8). We believe the King James Bible to be the English version that God has preserved His words & His inspiration in & through. It is our sole authority in all matters of faith & practice.
The Way of Salvation
We believe that the clear message of salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). We believe that salvation is “by grace” plus nothing minus nothing. We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18-19).
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men (John 1:1-2, 14; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; 7:14; Philippians 2:5-8; Galatians 4:4-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His finished work on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24, 7:25; Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2).
The Church
We believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age which began with Christ and the Apostles, was empowered at Pentecost, and will be caught up to be with Christ at the Rapture (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27; I Corinthians 12:12-14; II Corinthians 11:2).
We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures (Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32; I Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).
We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control (Acts 13:1-4, 15:19-31, 20:28; Romans 16:1, 4; I Corinthians 3:9, 16, 5:4-7, 13; I Peter 5:1-4).
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; II Corinthians 13:14).
Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12).
The Ordinances of the Church
We recognize the ordinances of baptism by immersion in water and the Lord’s Supper as a Scriptural means of testimony for the Church in this age (Matthew. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42, 18:18; I Corinthians 11:23-26).
Biblical Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded of God (II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1, 2, 14:13; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11; II Corinthians 6:14-7:1).
The Return of Christ
We believe the “Blessed Hope” of our Lord’s return is literal, personal, visible, imminent, premillennial, and pretribulational. He will rapture His Church prior to the seven years of tribulation, and at the end of the tribulation Christ will return with His saints to establish His thousand-year reign on the earth (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; I Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 3:10; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6; Psalm 89:3-4).
Our Eternal State
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28, 29, 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).
We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6; II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21; I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious state until the soul and body are reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26; Matthew 25:41-46; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Mark 9:43-48; Revelation 20:11-15).