Grace Baptist Church is unique in that it was the first Reformed Baptist Church to be established in North Alabama. There are several such churches now in the Huntsville area. The men who prayed about beginning this work saw four major reasons for its founding.
1. Grace Baptist Church was established to give witness to the biblical and historic doctrines of grace among Baptist. The church adopted the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (with some revisions) as a testimony of its doctrine.
2. Grace Baptist Church was established to provide a place where people could worship God reverently without the entertainment atmosphere that is so prevalent in the typical Baptist church of today.
3. Grace Baptist Church was established with the desire to practice God-glorifying evangelism, the kind that aims at true conversions, not empty professions of faith produced by high-pressure methodology. Gospel preaching and witnessing is to be done passionately, but in full dependence upon the Holy Spirit to quicken those that are dead in sin.
4. Grace Baptist Church was established so people could hear the Word of God preached, not listen to emotional stories or to the latest felt-needs of modern man. Grace Baptist Church is committed to expositional preaching and teaching. It is the Word of God that the Holy Spirit uses in bringing sinners to faith and in maturing the saints.
After much prayer and soul searching by several families Grace Baptist Church began meeting in the Fall of 1989. The church was formally constituted in March of 1990. The church has gone through many trials and hardships since its founding but the Lord has maintained the work and we pray that it will continue to be owned by Him in the future.
Written by Dean Olive, founding Pastor
1. Grace Baptist Church was established to give witness to the biblical and historic doctrines of grace among Baptist. The church adopted the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (with some revisions) as a testimony of its doctrine.
2. Grace Baptist Church was established to provide a place where people could worship God reverently without the entertainment atmosphere that is so prevalent in the typical Baptist church of today.
3. Grace Baptist Church was established with the desire to practice God-glorifying evangelism, the kind that aims at true conversions, not empty professions of faith produced by high-pressure methodology. Gospel preaching and witnessing is to be done passionately, but in full dependence upon the Holy Spirit to quicken those that are dead in sin.
4. Grace Baptist Church was established so people could hear the Word of God preached, not listen to emotional stories or to the latest felt-needs of modern man. Grace Baptist Church is committed to expositional preaching and teaching. It is the Word of God that the Holy Spirit uses in bringing sinners to faith and in maturing the saints.
After much prayer and soul searching by several families Grace Baptist Church began meeting in the Fall of 1989. The church was formally constituted in March of 1990. The church has gone through many trials and hardships since its founding but the Lord has maintained the work and we pray that it will continue to be owned by Him in the future.
Written by Dean Olive, founding Pastor
