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...let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
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History
Harvest Baptist Church was built in 1975. We are a Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. The first pastor of this church was Pastor Foy Thompson. He preached God's word until October 1977 when Dr. Virgil Chitty became pastor and still resides over our services today. We have 16 missionaries that we help support. Our goal is to teach the word of God and help those that are lost find salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord and savior. Harvest Baptist Church welcomes all who enter into God's house. We hope to see you this Sunday and many more Sundays to come.
Covenant
Having been led, as we believe by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our savior and, on the profession of our faith, having been baptized by the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ. We engage, therefore by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church in knowledge, holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations. We also gage to maintain family and secret devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings; faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; to avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; to abstain from the sale of, and use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage; to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our savior. We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember one another in prayer; to aid one another in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules of our savior to secure it without delay. We moreover engage that when we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God's word.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.
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