What We Value

The Gospel of Jesus

The gospel (good news) of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection for sinners is central to everything we do at Cedarhome!  We want to lean into the truths of the gospel as we rely on Christ to work in and through us for his glory.  The goal of every sermon, Bible study, Sunday school lesson, community group, conversation, and prayer is to glorify our triune God alone!

Multi-Generational Friendships

We celebrate and encourage multi-generational friendships and environments!  Parents are welcome to keep their children with them for all or part of our worship services. Most of our community groups are open to the whole family.  Whether you are one day old or 99 years old, we love you and value you!

Expository Preaching

To preach the Bible most accurately and helpfully, we tend to preach verse-by-verse through one book of the Bible at a time.  Preaching at Cedarhome is a time of worshiping God and growing closer to Him together!

Generous Hospitality

We want everyone to feel loved, valued, and safe here.  We want to show generous hospitality to guests by warmly welcoming them, learning their names, and getting to know each other better over a beverage or meal.

Praying Together

Prayer, or talking to God, is vital to worship God, to confess our sin, to thank God, and to ask God to work in specific ways in our lives and in the world. As individuals and as a church, we want to pray without ceasing.

Encouraging Community

We want every person at Cedarhome to know others and to be known by others.  In addition to worshiping the Lord together on Sunday mornings, we strongly encourage individuals and families to attend one of our community groups in order to encourage one another as we follow Jesus together.

Gracious Discipleship

A disciple of Jesus is a person who has trusted in Jesus for eternal life and who is learning how to obey him with his/her life. The gospel of grace guides the content of our discipleship, the form of our discipleship, and the attitude of our discipleship.  We do not seek obey Christ in order to earn His approval; rather, we want to obey him, because he already earned God’s approval for us through his death and resurrection.

Humble Service

Our Lord Jesus exemplified serving others at great cost to oneself.  As disciples of Jesus, we want to serve others with Christlike humility. Whether we’re cleaning the church, teaching Sunday school, playing a musical instrument, volunteering in the local schools, or serving at the soup kitchen, it is a joyful privilege to use our time and energy to serve the Lord by serving others.

Selfless Multiplication

For God’s glory and the joy of all peoples, we want to make disciples of Jesus who make more disciples of Jesus.  We want to make leaders who make more leaders.  We want to make community groups that make more community groups.  We want to make more churches that make more churches.  

What We Believe

1. The Word of God
We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

2. The Trinity
We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons, that these are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence and redemption.

3. God the Father
We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of each person, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

4. Jesus Christ
We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth.

5. The Holy Spirit
We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher and guide.

6. Regeneration
We believe that all people are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

7. The Church
We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible confession of faith, and associated for worship, work and fellowship. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the primary task of giving the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world.

8. Christian Conduct
We believe that Christians should live for the glory of God and the well-being of others; that their conduct should be blameless before the world; that they should be faithful stewards of their possessions; and that they should seek to realize for themselves and others the full stature of maturity in Christ.

9. The Ordinances
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the name of the triune God. We believe that the Lord’s Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

10. Religious Liberty
We believe that every human being has direct relations with God, and is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that therefore Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from dictation or patronage of the other.

11. Church Cooperation
We believe that local churches can best promote the cause of Jesus Christ by cooperating with one another in a denominational organization. Such an organization, whether a regional or district conference, exists and functions by the will of the churches. Cooperation in a conference is voluntary and may be terminated at any time. Churches may likewise cooperate with interdenominational fellowships on a voluntary basis.

12. The Last Things
We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of His kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked.

(Adopted by the Baptist General Conference in 1951, reaffirmed in 1990 and amended in 1998.)

Church Membership

Church membership is a commitment to one another—to care, support, guard, and minister together for the building up of our church body.

Church Membership Packet

Cedarhome Baptist Church Constitution

Cedarhome Baptist Church Bylaws