Denomination: Baptist
We are a community, helping everyone discover faith in Jesus, grow in love for God and others, and live as ambassadors of hope by the power of the Spirit.
From Sunday worship, to regular weekly meetings, to special events and retreats, your will often hear us talking about: Faith, Love, and Hope. So what do these three words mean to us at First Baptist Church of Davis?
Simply put, faith means to trust and believe. We want to help one another discover that Jesus is worth trusting and believing, from the first time we believe and through every season and aspect of life. Jesus’ life, teaching, death, and resurrection are the sturdy foundation on which our faith stands. Our Christian faith, then, is not religious observance or agreeing with a certain set of truths. It’s trusting and believing that Jesus is God’s King and our Savior that makes a faith which pleases God (Hebrews 11:6, John 6:29).
Jesus says the greatest measure of spirituality is one’s love for God and others (Matthew 22:36-40). It’s the kind of love God has extended to us in Jesus: an unconditional love marked by devotion and sacrificial action that goes beyond a warm and positive feeling. Once we receive and experience God’s kind of love, we are moved to replicate it and practice it until it becomes second nature in increasing measures. We love God and our neighbor in everyday, practical ways as a response to the love God first showed us.
We believe there’s more life than this life: Jesus promised abundant life (John 10:10) and eternal life (John 3:16) to all who have faith in Him. What’s more: He’s promised to wrap all things in this world into a new heaven and new earth, one without pain or evil. Our lives here and now look forward to that ultimate reality, and much like an engaged couple look forward to being married and arrange their lives with that new relationship status and its priorities in sight: as a church we want to live lives rich in love, justice, and mercy as tastes of the future to come with God.
From Sunday worship, to regular weekly meetings, to special events and retreats, your will often hear us talking about: Faith, Love, and Hope. So what do these three words mean to us at First Baptist Church of Davis?
Simply put, faith means to trust and believe. We want to help one another discover that Jesus is worth trusting and believing, from the first time we believe and through every season and aspect of life. Jesus’ life, teaching, death, and resurrection are the sturdy foundation on which our faith stands. Our Christian faith, then, is not religious observance or agreeing with a certain set of truths. It’s trusting and believing that Jesus is God’s King and our Savior that makes a faith which pleases God (Hebrews 11:6, John 6:29).
Jesus says the greatest measure of spirituality is one’s love for God and others (Matthew 22:36-40). It’s the kind of love God has extended to us in Jesus: an unconditional love marked by devotion and sacrificial action that goes beyond a warm and positive feeling. Once we receive and experience God’s kind of love, we are moved to replicate it and practice it until it becomes second nature in increasing measures. We love God and our neighbor in everyday, practical ways as a response to the love God first showed us.
We believe there’s more life than this life: Jesus promised abundant life (John 10:10) and eternal life (John 3:16) to all who have faith in Him. What’s more: He’s promised to wrap all things in this world into a new heaven and new earth, one without pain or evil. Our lives here and now look forward to that ultimate reality, and much like an engaged couple look forward to being married and arrange their lives with that new relationship status and its priorities in sight: as a church we want to live lives rich in love, justice, and mercy as tastes of the future to come with God.
