Laurel Baptist Church in West Columbia

is a group that loves the Lord. We face our own personal challenges throughout the week and look forward to coming together with friends for worship, encouragement, and the chance to grow in our faith and our learning of the Word of God. We're a family. Our members matter and our friendships are deep. We pray together, sing together, serve together, and eat together.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe that there is one God, in three persons, united in essence - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19; II Cor. 13:14). 

We believe in one God, the Father almighty, We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father (Col. 1:15-20; I Cor. 8:16; Ps. 2:7; Jn. 15:26).

We believe that the Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving Knowledge, Faith, and Obedience (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21).

Salvation is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that saves to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25) those that believe that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve (I Cor. 15:1-5).

Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are sacraments of positive and sovereign institution. They are appointed by the Lord Jesus the only lawgiver and are to be continued in his church to the end of the age (Matt. 28:19-20; I Cor. 11:26).

Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ. To those baptized it is a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection, of their being grafted into him, of remission of sins, and of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life (Rom. 6:3-5; Col. 2:12; Gal. 3:27; I Pet. 3:19-22; Acts 26:16).

The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament where worthy recipients who outwardly partake of the visible elements in this ordinance also by faith inwardly receive and feed on Christ crucified and all the benefits of his death. They do so really and truly, yet not physically and bodily but spiritually. The body and blood of Christ are not present bodily or physically in the ordinance but spiritually to the faith of believers, just as the elements themselves are present to their outward senses (I Cor. 10:16-17, 11:23-32).

The church is a local congregation of baptized believers who put the Lord Jesus Christ as the head. The church operates under the Lordship of Christ. In the congregation each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. The scriptural officers are pastors and deacons. Men qualified by Scripture are chosen by the church to serve in those offices.  Both men and women are gifted in the church and serve in various roles (I Tim. 3:1-16; Titus 1:6-9).