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About Briarwood Baptist Church
Confessional | Creedal | Covenantal
Confessional Creedal Covenantal
Family-Integrated, Reformed Baptists
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Briarwood!
We focus on growing, discipling, and strengthening families. We are a reformed Baptist (solid reform teachings) Concessional, Creedal and Covenantal church.
Briarwood Baptist Church is a family-integrated Reformed Baptist congregation, located just minutes from the North Gate of Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri – on Hwy 28 towards Dixon.
It is the place where individuals and families can come together each week, in one heart, soul, mind, and strength, for the purpose of glorifying God with our worship and our lives.
Our primary focus is learning more about the Supreme character and Holy nature of the Triune God, revealed in the truth of His inspired Word, and to make disciples of Jesus Christ. Briarwood places a very high view on God, believing that He is the center of all things, rather than mankind, and that all things that have been have been created by Him, through Him, and for Him.
Every Sunday – or Lord’s Day – we gather together for corporate (communal) worship, for the singing of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, and the reading, teaching, and preaching of God’s Word. We have a Sunday School in the hour preceding the Worship Service, and following the time of Worship, we share in a potluck-style fellowship meal. After the meal, as we are eating dessert, we have an afternoon time of study, Sermon Q&A, or just relaxed fellowship. On the last Sunday of the month, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper, and dismiss without the fellowship meal or afternoon study time.
As an elder-led body, we follow the Biblical model for local congregations being led by a plurality of co-equal elders (or pastors) for teaching and direction, where no single man is the head of the church, but the head of the church is Christ. This means that we have not one single pastor, but three – each of whom shares the burden of preaching, teaching, and shepherding the church. On a given Sunday, any or all of the three elders will lead the congregation in the public reading, teaching, and preaching of the Word.
Believing that children learn and grow best in the care and nurture of their own parents, Briarwood integrates families together as much as possible when we come together for our regular worship times. Rather than separating into different worship settings, we encourage families to join together for the purpose of teaching every member of our body – from the oldest to the very youngest – that worshiping God is something we delight to do together! We do have Sunday School available for those who are old enough to read, but children are welcome and encouraged to attend class with their parents if you wish.
We are Reformed in our theology, adhering to the same precious truths of Scripture that led godly men to lead the church in the Protestant Reformation over 500 years ago. We believe in the doctrines of God’s Sovereign grace, which teach us that God alone is the Supreme Creator and Ruler of all the universe, known and unknown, and that He alone is to be praised, worshiped, and adored. We believe that all men, women, and children are by nature sinners, and in need of salvation from that sin. We believe that salvation from our sinfulness comes only by God’s sovereign grace though faith in Jesus Christ, and the work that was fully accomplished on the cross of Calvary. Without salvation, upon death, the soul will be punished in Hell, separated for eternity from the Love of God, but for those whom are saved, their souls will be united with God in glory forever. We believe that water baptism is a sign and seal of the inward grace and working of the Holy Spirit, and that it binds us to the body of Christ until that day when He shall return again in glory.
Sunday Mornings
Sunday School — 9:45
Corporate Worship — 11:00
(Potluck fellowship meal following the service)
Sermon Q&A — 1:00 PM
Wednesday Evenings
Prayer Meeting — 6:15
Bible Study — 7:00
Men's Bible Study
Every other Friday at 6:30 PM
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