ABOUT

About us

Who we are

Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church is a Christ-centered, multi-ethnic and multi-campus church serving Fayetteville and Hollonville, GA.

Focused on Christ’s adoration and His transformative power in the believer’s life, we seek God’s will through prayer and careful study of His Word. We actively partner with numerous local, state, national and global ministries with an intentional motive to love and serve our neighbors, communities, and each other.

God’s Plan For You

You’re not here by accident. God loves you. He wants you to have a personal relationship with Him through Jesus, His Son. There is just one thing that separates you from God. That one thing is sin.

Most simply, sin is our failure to measure up to God’s holiness and His righteous standards. We sin by things we do, choices we make, attitudes we show, and thoughts we entertain. But we have great news for you! God DOES love you! More than you can ever imagine!

Jesus paid the price for your sin and mine by giving His life on a cross. God brought Jesus back from the dead. He provided the way for you to have a personal relationship with Him through Jesus.

If you have trusted Jesus as your Lord and Savior today or have some more questions, please let us know. We want to rejoice in what God has done in your life and help you to grow spiritually.

Our Vision

Our vision at Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church is to see our community transformed by the power of the Gospel.

We believe that the love of Christ is for all people and that through this love we can reach and build stronger individuals and families of faith that in turn build a close-knit community and more effective church.

Jesus offers all who follow Him an abundant and fulfilling life. We are a people that joins God in His work and rejoices together as people come to life in Christ!

Our Mission

The Gospel is the most significant source of power for a Christian. Through an ongoing relationship with Jesus, we believe that a person will experience significant life transformation.

God is the God of love and through His ultimate power He is working all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

It is through a relationship with Jesus that one can truly be transformed and begin to see God’s will accomplished. We serve a living God who is active in the lives of His followers, continually transforming them.

BELIEFS

What we Believe

We affirm the Holy Bible as the inspired Word of God and the basis for our beliefs.

Harp’s subscribes to the doctrinal statement of the Baptist Faith and Message as adopted by the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000. We voluntarily band ourselves together as a body of Baptized believers in Jesus Christ, personally committed to sharing the Good News of salvation to lost mankind. The ordinances of the church are Believer’s Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.

Core Beliefs

God

God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.

The Father

He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. He reigns with providential care over the universe and the flow of human history goes according to His purposes and plan.

Jesus

Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus has eternally existed and became man at His incarnation. He lived a sinless human life and offered himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He bodily arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven’s glory and will return to earth again someday to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Holy Spirit

He is the third person of the Trinity. He guides men into all truth, exalts Christ, convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment, cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, bestows spiritual gifts by which believers serve God and seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the lives of believers is the assurance of God to bring us into the fullness of the stature of Christ.

Baptism

We believe that scriptural baptism must be: (1) by being completely immersed under the water and (2) after salvation. Jesus was immersed and all baptisms in the New Testament were by immersion. These two facts sets the standard for baptism today. Baptism has no saving power but is the first act of obedience symbolizing (1) the believer’s faith in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, (2) the believer’s death to sin and resurrection to walk anew in Christ, and (3) the Christian’s belief that he will die, be buried, and that Jesus will resurrect him from the dead.

Scripture

The Bible is God’s Word to us. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and Christian living. Because it is inspired by God, it has salvation for its end and is truth without any mixture of error.

Humans

People are made in the image of God and we are the supreme object of God’s creaton. All of us are marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called sin. Sin separates people from God and causes many problems in life.

Eternity

People were created to exist forever. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separate from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence.

Salvation

Salvation is God’s free gift to us, but we must accept it. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can anyone be saved from sin’s penalty. When we turn from our self-ruled life and turn to Jesus in faith, we are saved. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith.

Eternal Security

Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot “lose” your salvation. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security.

The Church

A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a local body of baptized believers who are associated by their common faith and fellowship with Jesus. A local church is to observe the two ordinances: (1) baptism and (2) the Lord’s Supper. The church should exercise their God-given gifts and extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. The church is an autonomous body serving under the Lordship of Christ. All members are equally responsible as they serve with the scriptural officers of the church, the pastors and deacons.

Christian Unity

To live in harmony with other believers is clearly the teaching of the New Testament. It is the responsibility of each believer to endeavor to live in fellowship with each member of the congregation. It is further the responsibility of each member to bring all gossiping and backbiting to an end.

Marriage

We agree the definition of “marriage” means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word “spouse” refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.

Tithing

We believe in giving the tithe – ten percent of our gross income (not net income) – as the biblical standard of giving. The tithe is to be given as an undesignated offering to the “storehouse” ministry of a local church. According to the Scriptures, we are to give cheerfully, regularly, systematically, proportionately, and liberally for the advancement of the Redeemer’s cause on earth.

Evangelism

It is the duty of every born again follower of Jesus Christ and of every church to endeavor to make disciples of all men everywhere. It is the command of Christ for every believer to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort and by all other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.

Lord’s Supper

The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby believers remember the death of the Lord Jesus and anticipate His second coming. The bread is symbolic of His body and the juice represents His blood.