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| Loving |
| First Baptist Church is committed to loving God.
Mark 12:30 - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength."
First Baptist Church is committed to loving others.
Loving Other Christians - John 13:34-35 - "I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Loving Other People in General - Mark 12:31 - "... Love your neighbor as yourself."
Loving Those Who don't Love Us - Luke 6:27-28 - "But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you."
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First Baptist Church is committed to learning by studying Scripture.
2 Timothy 3:14-17 - "But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing those from whom you learned, and that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work."
First Baptist Church is committed to learning from other Christians.
2 Timothy 2:2 - "And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."
First Baptist Church is committed to learning that changes lives.
Romans 12:2 - "Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God."
First Baptist Church is committed to learning that results in doing.
James 1:22 - "But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."
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First Baptist Church is committed to serving God.
Matthew 4:10 - "Then Jesus told him, 'Go away, Satan! For it is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him.'"
First Baptist Church is committed to serving others.
Galatians 5-13 - "For you are called to freedom, brothers; only don't use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love."
Mark 10:42-45 - "Jesus called them over and said to them, 'You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their men of high positions exercise power over them. But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be
first among you must be slave to all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life - a ransom for many.'"
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