FBCChinaYouth - First Baptist Church China

We are done.

It is finished.

We have tried our parents faith. We have tried church attendance. We have tried to be good, further, we have tried to live good lives. We say that we have an understanding with God. But something has been lost in translation. Something is missing. Because God does not share in this "understanding". God's ways are not our ways. Our aimless endeavors, our half-hearted attempts to purchase God's grace only end in failure. God understands the cross. We are accepted and loved by God not because of what we may accomplish. Even our best attempts to please God are like filthy rags to put it kindly. God loves us and chooses us not for our good deeds but because he is a good God. God chooses us because of the cross.

We have tried these things and we have failed.
We have tried to do it on our own.

We are done.

We are done with marketing. we are done with branding. we are done being seeker sensitive because none seek Christ.

We are not flashy. we are not bright. We are not shiny. We are not hip. We are not cool. We are not new, though we are continually being made new through the transformational power of scripture.

We were not asleep.

We were dead.

The sleeper may arise. The sick man may still cry for help.

No.

We were dead. We were buried.We were not sick. a sick man needs a doctor.

We were not sick. We were sinners and no doctor could save us.

The sick need doctors.

Sinners need a savior.

We live in the tension of a fallen world. We know what sin is. We live with it everyday. But like the farmer in 2 Timothy 2; we are pulling and plucking the weeds. We are breaking apart. We are stripping away. We are tearing down. we are weeding sin out of our lives and relying on the providence of God's rain to fall on us and sustain us and grow us.

We are done.

We don't want the spiritual highs from organized events to sustain us.We don't live in conferences and camps and concerts. We live in a world devastated by the fall. We don't want to look back at our lives ten years from now and call our years in high school our glory days in Christ. We don't want event driven faith. We want to be steadfast radical disciples. We want Holiness. We want Jesus.

Steadfast.

Radical.

Disciples.

We affirm that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

We want satisfaction in Christ. We want to stop pawning our affection to lesser gods. We want to destroy all of our idols. We want to worship the only worthy and Holy and deserving God. The God of the Bible.

We want a right relationship with God.

We want Jesus.

It is all about Jesus. It is only about Jesus. It is always about Jesus.

So.

We tread daily into a culture and we are missionaries.
We are in the world. but; we are not of it.
We are sojourners. We are not from here. Our nationality resides in a different world.
We serve a King and a Kingdom.

We are Christians

We are Evangelical

We are Missional

We are Reformed

Our goal is to love Jesus and love others with word and deed That we might see lives transformed for Jesus, that we might redeem our culture, that God might be glorified.

It's all about Jesus

Current Service Times

Sun 10a - Student Connect w/ Bill Rigsby
Sun 6p - Community Group

Tue 7p - Steadfast (@ Sertinos)

Wed 6:30p - 630 Food
Wed 7p - Fallout

Featured Items

Come Join us as we go through the book of Judges in our 20 week long Series entitled: Judging Judges.

We will finish or 16 week long series on the book of Joshua the last week of April. Read chapter 24. We will be talking about The Hebrew nation worshiping God through life an dthe division of the land.

We have finished our five month teaching series on the minor prophets entitled simply "The Prophets"

Meet Our Staff

Cody Wells - Student Pastor

Bill Rigsby - Student Connect organizer

Sarah Billings - Mission coordinator intern

Kayleigh Dowell - Media intern

Colt Eberle - Worship intern

Tanya Catalanata - 630 Food organizer

Links

www.compassion.com
www.bloodwatermission.com
www.twloha.com
www.desiringgod.org
www.theresurgence.com
www.acts29network.com
www.tomsshoes.com
www.monergism.com
www.imb.org
www.namb.org
www.setxfoodbank.org
www.sopbmt.org
www.snbarea.org
www.boyshaven.com
www.girlshaveninc.org
www.thekingsmusician.org
www.albertmohler.com
www.swbts.edu
www.sbts.edu
www.liberty.edu
www.lamar.edu
ww.narrow714.com
www.labri.org
www.thepeaceplan.com
www.esvstudybible.com

Contact

Cody Wells

office 409-752-5111

cell 409-291-3568

email codyofthejungle@yahoo.com

you can also find Cody on myspace, facebook, and twitter