After much prayer and an extensive pastor search, Dr. Ned Mathews was called to become the inaugural pastor of Christ Baptist Church in June 2002. We began leasing a portion of the space in our current facility while continuing the search for a senior pastor. In June 2003 Dr. Steve McKinion became Senior Pastor.

We were able to purchase the 53,000 square foot building at 400 Newton Road in June 2003. On September 7, 2003, 248 people became charter members of Christ Baptist Church. We celebrate our anniversary (Covenant Sunday) each year in September.

In May 2005, Dr. McKinion returned to Southeastern Seminary to a full-time teaching position, at which time Dr. Allan Moseley began serving as Interim Pastor. Dr. Moseley accepted the call to become Senior Pastor in May 2006. Concurrently, Mr. Kim Faucette was called to become Associate Pastor of Administration.

1. Worship will focus on the holiness, majesty, and sovereignty of God. Preaching and teaching will be the verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible. Music will be theologically sound and appropriately reverent in uniting text and tune. (Philippians 4:1-5; Colossians 3:16-17).

2. The staff and other leaders will equip the saints for ministry, that is, for the work of the church which includes edification, evangelism and missions (Ephesians 4:11-13; Matthew 28:18-2).

3. The emphasis on evangelistic missions is to involve the entire congregation.

4. Christ Baptist Church will be engaged with prevailing cultural issues, confronting the culture with Christian alternatives to social evils, thus becoming salt and light to the culture. All will be invited to consider and embrace biblical principles. This ministry will be two-pronged: it will be aggressively proactive in confrontation, but lovingly redemptive in promoting the biblical remedy.

1. God the Father: God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe and His creatures, according to the purpose of His grace. He is all-powerful, all-loving, and all-wise. God the Father is the source of all truth.
2. God the Son: Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus perfectly revealed and did the will of God, taking upon Himself the demands and necessities of human nature and identifying Himself completely with mankind, yet without sin. He honored the divine law by His personal obedience; in His death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin. He was raised from the dead with a glorified body and appeared to His disciples as the Person who was with them before His crucifixion. He ascended into heaven and is exalted at the right hand of God, where He is the One Mediator, in whose Person is affected the reconciliation between God and man. He will return in power and glory to judge the world and to consummate His redemptive mission. He now dwells in all believers, through the Holy Spirit, as the living and ever-present Lord.
3. God the Holy Spirit: The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. He inspired men of old to write the Scriptures. Through illumination, He enables men to understand the truth. He exalts Christ. He convicts of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. He calls men to the Savior, and affects regeneration. He cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, and bestows spiritual gifts by which they serve God through His church. He seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the Christian is the assurance of God to bring the believer into the fullness of the stature of Christ. He enlightens and empowers the believer and the Church in worship, prayer, evangelism, Bible study, and service.

1. 1. The believer was saved when he, by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, died to sin and was spiritually born again as a child of God.
2. The believer is being saved from the dominion of sin, divinely preserved and sanctified.
3. The believer will be saved from the eternal consequence of sin - - separation from God - - and will be presented faultless in glory, to be with Him forever.