The overruling providence of God worked purposefully for years to bring about the establishment of Providence Baptist Church in the fall of 1996. The congregation began as a Bible Study in Brownsburg, Indiana and eventually grew into the church that presently meets in the home at 1500 Temple Dr., Danville, Indiana. The church is characterized by a people who love the truth and hold faithfully to G
od’s free and sovereign grace in Christ. We believe in only one true and living God, the Father, the Word or Son and the Holy Spirit; equal in power and glory. (I Tim. 2:5 John 17:3 John 1:1, 14 I Cor. 8:6 John 4:24 I John 5:7)
2. We believe the scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of divine authority and the only infallible rules of faith and practice. We believe that God purposed in himself, for His own glory, to make a display of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness and truth, in the work of His creation, which He has made in the dispensation of His providence. Rom. 1:20 Psalm 19:1-6 Rev. 4:11
4. We believe in the total depravity of human nature, and that the recovery from that situation is wholly and entirely of the sovereign, free, unmerited grace of God in Christ Jesus. Rom. 3:10-18 Eph. 2:1-9
5. We believe that God, from eternity, through election, purposed to save a people from their sins, for His own name’s sake and that in infinite wisdom, He devised the plan, and appointed every means necessary to accomplish the great end of their redemption, which He effects in His own time, by the operation of His Holy Spirit. Matt. 1:21 Eph. 1:4-9 II Tim. 1:9
6. We believe that sinners are justified before God only by the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. Rom. 3:24-26 Rom. 5:1, 19 II Cor. 5:21
7. We believe all such as are truly born of the Spirit of God, are kept by the power of God, through faith, unto eternal salvation. Sam. 12:22 Jude 24 I Peter 1:3-5 John 10:28-29
8. We believe that all the regenerate are created in Christ Jesus unto good works, and that good works follow faith as a fruit of it, and that God works in His people both to will and to do of His good pleasure and that it is by our fruits that we are known. Eph. 2:10 Phil.2:13 Titus 2:11-14 Matt. 12:33
9. We believe that Christ is the fulfillment of the law and being the embodiment of perfect love, He is our rule of life for “as He is, so are we in this world.”
Matt. 5:17 Matt. 22:36-40 Rom. 10:4 I John 4:17 I John 2:6 Rom. 13:8-10
10. We believe Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances of the Gospel, instituted by Jesus Christ, and none but those who profess faith in Christ and obedience to His will, are fit subjects for either. Matt. 28:19-20 Acts 8:35-37 Luke 22:19-20 I. Cor. 11:23-26 Acts 2:41-42
11. We believe immersion, according to the scriptures and apostolic practice, to be the only proper mode of Baptism and that Baptism is the doorway into the local church. Rom. 6:3-5 Acts 2:41-44
12. We believe that Christ Himself is the Sabbath (rest) of His people and in the light of this truth we have a person to honor and not a day to keep. The practice of the New Testament Church is to meet on the first day of the week for the purpose of honoring Him “who was delivered for our offences, and was raised for our justification.”
Heb. 4:1-11 Col. 2:16-17 Rom. 4:25
13. We believe in the resurrection of the body, both of the just and unjust; and that God will judge the world in righteousness by that man, whom He hath appointed. John 5:21-22, 28-29 Acts 17-31 Heb. 9:27 Rev. 20:11-15
14. We believe in the second coming of Christ and that the righteous will forever abide in the peaceful presence of God, their Redeemer, and His pardoning grace and forgiving love will be the theme of their song, while the wicked shall remain in everlasting torment. John 14:2-3 I Thess.4:13-18 Rev. 5:9-10 Rev. 20:6 Rev. 21:8 II Thess. 1:6-9
