Grace Pointe Church is a Southern Baptist Church and therefore affirms the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.

Grace Pointe also affirms the following supplementary, clarifying statements:

Yes, Grace Pointe is a Southern Baptist church.

Learn more about what it means to be Southern Baptist with this helpful document, Navigating the SBC.

Yes, Grace Pointe is both Baptist and Reformed, with preaching that emphasizes the authority of Scripture and God’s sovereign election of sinners to salvation by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

If interested in supplemental reading, the 1689 London Baptist Confession is the best-known historic confession among Reformed Baptists, though most Reformed Baptists including Grace Pointe would highlight that the confession is not without its inadequacies (e.g. chapter 26, paragraph 4).

Yes, Grace Pointe is part of the Pillar Network, a network of like-minded Reformed Bapist churches within the Southern Baptist Convention.

Check out this brief overview of the Pillar Network, here.

We believe the Bible is inerrant, and therefore whatever preaching lets the Bible speak clearly for itself is best. Expository preaching does just that.

Expository preaching is the process of laying open a Bible text in such a way that the Holy Spirit’s intended meaning and attending power are brought to bear on the lives of contemporary listeners. — Jim Shaddix

Learn more about Expository preaching, here.

We believe Pastor/Elder and Deacon are the only two biblical offices prescribed by the Bible.

We believe the role of Pastor/Elder is appointed by God to faithful men qualified biblically according to 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:6-9.

We believe that the role of Deacon appointed by God to faithful men and women qualified biblically according to 1 Timothy 3:8-13.

Below is the two-part series on Elders and Deacons, taught in 2022 during Grace Pointe’s founding.

The Office of Pastor/Elder:

The Office of Deacon:

While everyone need not agree on this matter in order to attend and feel at home at Grace Pointe Church, we want you to know what our Senior Pastor teaches on the subject. Here is his sermon on Tongues and Prophecy from Acts 2: