First Baptist Church Of Argyle

The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a memorial to God's deliverance of the people from slavery through the Passover and their quick exit from Egypt. It foreshadowed the reality that God's judgment passes over those who are in Christ, and it reminds us that God will deliver his people from bondage.

The Feast of Weeks is the celebration of the the wheat harvest and God's provision for this people that season. It was during this festival that the Holy Spirit fell on the disciples and brought in a harvest of 3,000 souls. The Feast of Weeks reminds us that Jesus will reap a harvest of souls and that we are to be laborers sent out to work.

Through the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles, we see a foreshadowing of Jesus as the source of life for our souls and the hope of salvation for the nations.

Fully-devoted fellowships guard the gospel. We guard the gospel because it sets us apart. We guard the gospel by aligning our hearts and mouth with it and by discovering and holding on to truth.

A fully-devoted fellowship pursues godliness above all else. Godliness is our inner response to God that leads to outward change, should be increasing until Jesus appears, and must be anchored in the supremacy of God.

A fully-devoted fellowship is teachable and content.

Fully-devoted fellowships serve for the sake of others, even in hard circumstances, because our hope is not in this life.

A fully-devoted fellowship honors their elders, holds their elders accountable, and carefully examines potential elders.

A fully-devoted fellowship sets healthy boundaries for its ministries in order to equip others for important work and to reserve resources for those in actual need.

A fully-devoted fellowship intentionally builds a multi-generational ministry that urges all towards Christ-likeness, understands how to honor different groups without showing partiality, protects and provides for the elderly in need, and helps families understand their roles in caring for their households.

First Baptist Church of Argyle

First Baptist Church of Argyle

Fully-devoted fellowships have diligent leadership who are not defined by demographics, who lead in life not just church life, who are committed to growing and guiding people with Scripture, who cherish the investment of others, and who are committed to following Jesus closely.

A fully-devoted fellowship trains for godliness by rejecting lies, feasting on God's Word, wrestling with the Word, stripping away every hindrance, and never stopping.

Legalism is a lie that scars the soul. It must be corrected through the nurturing word of God.

Jesus Christ is the source of all life and the author of abundant, eternal, secure spiritual life.

We all need peace. We are disjointed and incomplete. We lack a wholeness to ourselves because of sin. Peace is found only in Christ only by God's grace.

The Christian faith is practical, transformative, and mysterious.

A fully-devoted fellowship is served by qualified deacons who are people of character, cling to the gospel, and are devoted to their family.

A fully-devoted fellowship is led by qualified elders.