ABOUT GOSPELWAY
Gospelway Baptist Church is a confessional congregation located in China Grove, North Carolina. We are comprised of sinful people redeemed by Jesus Christ, who are seeking to find rest in Christ.
We believe that Jesus meant it, when He said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest", and we have made it our mission to take Him at His word.
OUR VISION
Our mission is why we exist, it is what we are about. Our vision is how we plan to accomplish this mission. We believe that this is played out in three main ways:
If we are going to understand the rest that we have in Christ, we must understand first of all what the gospel is, and what that means to us.
The scripture tells us that God has reconciled His enemies to Himself through Jesus. This means me and you!
Our focus is to daily spread this good news to those around us, so that they may find peace (rest) with God as well
The gospel is not only what centers us, but it is at the center of everything that we do and are.
Continuing His words, Jesus said that His, “yoke is easy”. We believe that He has, not only done the work to reconcile us to God, but His has accomplished our righteousness as well.
This means that we never have to do “church stuff” to gain a better standing with our Father. This allows us to rest in our acceptance with God through Christ.
Gospel means “good news”. When we say we are “gospel-driven” we mean that the central truth of our church is the good news of who Jesus is and what he’s done to save the world.
This is what drives everything that we do! We want everyone to know the rest that we have found in the gospel!
WHY THE NAME GOSPELWAY?
Many of the Puritan and early Baptist writers would use the term “the gospel-way” to explain the proclamation of the gospel that brings us to faith. (Rom. 10:17)
Thomas Boston stated that one can never find rest from their laboring “until they come to embrace the gospel-way of salvation; taking up its everlasting rest in Christ, for wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.”
Spreading the rest of Christ found in the gospel is our mission, and our desire was to convey this, even in the name that we chose to identify our assembly.
OUR ASSOCIATIONS
Along with the 17th century Baptists, we believe it prudent to join with other like-minded Baptist churches in the work of gospel proclamation and for fellowship and support.
We are an autonomous Baptist church which means we are a self-governing body. However, we have chosen to voluntary cooperate with the following organizations.
Grace Reformed Network
We are a founding member of the Grace Reformed Network.
GRN is an association of confessional churches subscribing to the Second London Confession of 1689 united around the sufficiency of Christ and are committed to the primacy of the local church.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
Most importantly, it means that you're always welcome to come rest with us. Just as we have been accepted by God in Christ, you'll always be accepted at Gospelway.