Poyen MBC is a Christ-centered church. We preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, the only one who can forgive our sins, the only way of eternal salvation.
Our goal is to see Jesus Christ exalted and to glorify God, by the teaching and keeping of His commandments. Our hearts' desire is to see lost souls saved, and the backslidden brought back into fellowship with God by the preaching of His Word.
OUR INVITATION
You are always welcome to worship with us. If you desire, by the leading of the Holy Spirit, to join the membership of Poyen Missionary Baptist Church, you may unite with us in one of the following ways:
BY BAPTISM...
If you profess faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, and desire to pattern your life after Christ's teachings as understood by our church, the church may receive you as a candidate for baptism after the manner of our Lord.
BY LETTER...
If you are a member of another Baptist church of like faith and order and wish to join our church, the church may accept you as a member by receiving a letter of recommendation from your former church.
BY STATEMENT...
If it is not possible for whatever reason to obtain a letter of recommendation from your former church, you may join by statement, professing that you have received Jesus Christ as Savior and have been baptized in the proper manner by another Baptist church of like faith and order.
BY RELATION...
If you know you are a child of God, by faith in Jesus Christ but belong to another denomination, and desire to unite with Poyen MBC embracing the doctrines we proclaim, then you may be received by baptism.
CHURCH 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 in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we do now in the presence of God, angels and this assembly, more 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, ordinaries, 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 engage to maintain family and secret devotion; 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, exemplary in our deportment; to avoid all tattling, backbiting and excessive anger; To abstain from the sale and the use of intoxicating drink as a beverage, and to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Saviour.
We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember each other in prayer; To aid each other in sickness and distress; To cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and courtesy in speech; To be slow to take offense but always ready for reconciliation, and mindful of the rules of our Saviour 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.
1. Love is the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all others are dependent.
2. The infallible inspiration of the Scriptures.
3. The Trinity of God.
4. The Genesis account of Creation
5. That Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, unholy god of this world.
6. The virgin birth of Christ.
7. The deity of Christ.
8. The person and work of the Holy Spirit.
9. That miraculous, spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed.
10. The total depravity of man.
11. Christ's blood atonement for fallen man.
12. The Bodily return of Jesus Christ.
13. The premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning events of the Gentile age.
14. Salvation is by grace through faith.
15. Eternal security of the believer.
16. God deals with believers as His Children.
17. The establishment of a local, visible, self governing, church by Jesus Christ.
18. There are two pictorial church ordinances -- baptism by immersion of believers, and the Lord's Supper (restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance).
19. There are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastor and deacons.
20. All associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of and under control of the church.
21. The separation of Church and State.