Grace Baptist Church

LET US INTRODUCE YOU TO GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

We are a small congregation but we are interested in growing. If you like love, friendship and closeness we are your best first choice.

We are unashamedly Southern Baptist for several reasons:

First, we believe that God is the most important part of worship, not music, not sermons, not forms or traditions; but the everlasting God of the universe! We believe that Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, is one with God. He is Trinity , Father, Son and Holy Spirit. It is ALL about Him!

Second, we believe the whole Bible and follow it as closely as we can. The Holy Spirit guides us into all truth and He uses the Bible, God's Word, as the teaching tool for that truth. We teach the Bible and we encourage everyone to continue to learn from it daily. If you live to be 120 and learn something new about God from the Bible every day of your life you will only have scratched the surface of all there is about Him contained in His word. Yet He is more than His word can contain either. the only way to really know Him is by relationship. Get to know Him personally before you try to know about Him.

Third, we are mission minded. We support thousands of missionaries all over North America and around the World financially and with our prayers every week. We send our own out on mission in our own community and around the world. Evangelism is our first goal, sharing Christ and eternal life with others and teaching God's people to share their faith. After their new birth we try to teach the new Christian "babe" to breathe in and out (pray to God and listen for His voice), and feed himself/herself (read, study and memorize the word of God, the Bible), to walk (become active in the church), and to talk (share their faith with others).

We focus on true worship in our worship services. That is a worship from the heart and is all about Jesus!

To facilitate that kind of worship we utilize a blended style of music. God didn't bless some styles of music and condemn others. Southern Gospel was once thought (when my grandparents were used to classical church music) to be too radical and too lively for use in true worship services. Traditional hymns (which originated with Isaac Watts in the 1700s) were uncomfortable for church groups 200 years ago because they sounded too much like the music of the popular set. Even "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" was considered radical in the 1500s because the words were set (by Martin Luther himself, no less) to a drinking song from the German taverns. God honors those who honor Him. As long as the music is God honoring it is acceptable to God.

We use some traditional hymns, some choruses, and some Christian contemporary style music in our services. We also have some Southern Gospel and even some Bluegrass Gospel in our musical repertoire. You may even see a dramatic skit or costume drama in our worship. The main thing in such services is that they honor and worship Jesus! We should never worship for show or for our own entertainment but for His glory!

If you want to know more about who we are, why not come join us in worship and find out.

Grace Baptist history

September 9, 1973—a group of 18 Christian people met in the home of Dorris Wallace, wanting to begin a church.

September 26, 1973—Rev. Robert Fessler was called to pastor the church and served his first Sunday.

January 27, 1974—Grace Baptist Church was organized. This constitutes the actual birthday of the church as an entity.

October 19, 1974—Concord Association at its annual meeting accepted Grace as a member church.

May 26, 1974—Grace purchased ten acres of land including a house and a barn at 606 Dill Lane. The church had been meeting in the homes of members, at the Seventh Day Adventist church on Elam Road, in the Flame Room, and The Good Shepherd Home. A tent was set up on the new land.

October 12, 1975—groundbreaking services were held at 2:30 pm. with 67 people circling the area to be the building.

February 8, 1976—Grace held the first Sunday services in the new building with 157 in attendance.

February 22, 1976—Dedication Services were held in the completed building after two months of construction.

October 28, 1984—Grace held our first Homecoming.

January 13 1985—Grace ordained Rev. Doyle Hayes.

February 24, 1985---Grace called Rev. Russell M. Richardson as pastor and he served his first Sunday.

March 23, 2003----The Deacons and the Building Committee asked for permission to consider the possibility that relocating the church would be a better option than remaining on Dill Lane. After due consideration on June 1, 2003 the church authorized that option.

May 6, 2007---Grace Baptist Church voted by 74% to 26% to relocate to an as yet undetermined new location. The Building Committee was empowered to investigate the possibilities.

September 13, 2007---The church property at 606 & 610 Dill Lane was sold at auction to a group representing the Church @ Crosspoint. Grace made arrangements to begin meeting in November at 309 S. Spring Street in Murfreesboro. The Building Committee was encouraged by the church to continue to search for either land to purchase or an existing building to purchase for the church.

December 2, 2007---Grace began meeting at 309 S. Spring Street.

January 5, 2009---Grace signed the deed for 12 acres of road front property at 2523 Bradyville Pike including a steel barn structure and the Todd/Harrell house.

September 13, 2009---Groundbreaking Ceremony at 2523 Bradyville Pike for our new church building.

July 25, 2010------Grace met for the first time at our newly completed church building.

August 29, 2010--------We held a Dedication Service in our new facility.

	ABOUT US


		2523 Bradyville Highway
		Murfreesboro, TN 37129
		(615) 890-2600