Foxhole Grace Baptist Church?  Where’s that?

 

Well, if you mean, “Where’s the church building?” there isn’t one.  Services are held at Kings Ash Primary School, Pimm Road.  There’s nothing wrong with a church having its own building, but the really important thing about a church is what it believes, not where it meets.

 

OK, so what does Foxhole Grace Baptist Church believe?

 

In a word, the Bible.  OK, that’s two words, but another name for the Bible is God’s Word, because it is the way in which God tells us about Himself.  The Bible is really a library of 66 books, so it would be difficult to make a summary of it short enough for this leaflet.

 

Ah, you’re just avoiding the question!

 

Not at all, just being realistic.  Tell you what, let’s start with the four words that make up the church’s name - they don’t tell you everything, but they do give an idea of what the church believes.  But let’s start with the last word of the church name and work backwards.  After that, a few words about the church.  If you want to know more, come along to one of our services, click on the “What We Believe” link, or contact us:

 

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Service Details                      What We Believe                          Contact the Church

 

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Four Words Make the Church Name

 

 

CHURCH:  a group of Christians who meet to worship God, pray to Him, learn from the Bible, and make God’s truth known.  

 

BAPTIST:  Baptism in the Bible is a sign of something which had already happened inside.  Baptism follows belief; it doesn’t make a person a Christian. People who believed this were nicknamed “Baptists” and the name stuck.

 

GRACE:  Something good, which we don’t deserve.  No one deserves anything good from God, because in the Bible, we read: “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” 1 We cannot take away our own sin, so God’s grace is vital.  In the Bible, we read, “For by grace you have been saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.” 2   But God can’t “turn a blind eye” to sin.  So Jesus Christ, perfect and completely free from sin, came into the world, not to make a nice story at Christmas, or to be a good example, but through His crucifixion to suffer the penalty for sin on behalf of His people.  That’s why the angel said, “You shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” 3   Thank God, Jesus did not remain dead, but rose again on the third day.

 

FOXHOLE: The Bible pattern is that local groups of believers came together to form churches.  It talks of “the church at Ephesus” and “the church at Jerusalem” for example.

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1 Romans, chapter 3, verse 23

2 Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 8

3 Matthew, chapter 1, verse 21

 

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About the Church

 

Foxhole is part of Paignton, a town on the south coast of Devon, England (see map below).  The Foxhole area includes well over three thousand houses. 

 

Foxhole Grace Baptist Church was formed in 1999, with just four members.  That crept up to nine by 2006.  Several others regularly attend services, and with Paignton being a popular holiday destination, we often welcome visitors from other parts of the UK, and sometimes from overseas.  The church is seeking to make the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ known in the Foxhole area.  There is an After-School Club for children, called Foxtails, and you can find details of this by going back to our home page and clicking the Foxtails link. 

 

Local Baptist churches are independent, but “inter-dependent”, and we at Foxhole express our fellowship with like-minded churches through the Grace Baptist Assembly, the West Country Reformed Fellowship, Grace Baptist Mission, and Reformation Southwest.

 

Foxhole Grace Baptist Church helps support the radio work of Grace Baptist Mission, and two churches in the Philippines.

 

 

 

 

 

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