What To Expect
Worship Service
Our worship service starts at 11 am - but if you are running late don't worry - we understand life is can be hectic. If you want to dress up you are welcome to but you don't need to for us. Jeans and western shirts are the norm. We enjoy a variety of music from hymns to contemporary praise songs and often sing both on a given Sunday. We love to sing music that exalts our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and encourages our hearts to grow in faith. Our messages are Biblical, practical, and applicable. They are powerful and practical for those who are beginning their walk with Christ or have been on their journey for many years.
Kids
We believe children are truly a blessing and gifts from God and enjoy the sound of little ones in our midst. We have a nursery available in the back of the Sanctuary for parents with infants and Children's Church every Sunday for kids walking to age 6 during the message. Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3 (ESV)
Our worship service starts at 11 am - but if you are running late don't worry - we understand life is can be hectic. If you want to dress up you are welcome to but you don't need to for us. Jeans and western shirts are the norm. We enjoy a variety of music from hymns to contemporary praise songs and often sing both on a given Sunday. We love to sing music that exalts our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and encourages our hearts to grow in faith. Our messages are Biblical, practical, and applicable. They are powerful and practical for those who are beginning their walk with Christ or have been on their journey for many years.
Kids
We believe children are truly a blessing and gifts from God and enjoy the sound of little ones in our midst. We have a nursery available in the back of the Sanctuary for parents with infants and Children's Church every Sunday for kids walking to age 6 during the message. Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Psalm 127:3 (ESV)
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Meet our staff.
Pastor - Ryan Webster
Ryan was born and raised in Montana. He graduated high school in Missoula and attended the University of Montana before God changed his direction and he moved to Belgrade to attend Montana Bible College. Ryan married his wife Tiffany and began Bible college in 2013. Ryan graduated Montana Bible College in April of 2018 with a bachelors degree in Biblical Studies and an emphasis on Pastoral Ministry. During that time Ryan and Tiffany welcomed their first son into the family. After graduation the family moved to Missoula, was accepted as missionaries with the Rocky Mountain Bible Mission, and welcomed their second son into the family. As a family they love to serve The Lord in whatever way He determines and by spending time in his beautiful creation. |
Drummond Community Church is a non-denominational church that is associated with the Rocky Mountain Bible Mission. For more information about RMBM please follow the link.
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What we at DCC believe.
Doctrine of the Bible
We believe the Bible is the Word of God, and that it was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 or more writers, containing 66 books of which each chapter and verse form a unity. It contains two main divisions: the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is historical, poetical, and prophetical. The New Testament is historical, epistolary, and prophetical. We believe in plenary (completely), verbal (every word) inspired Word of God as contained in the original manuscripts; that each portion is equally inspired and contains no contradictions (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Hebrews 1:1-2). We also believe that the Bible is the only rule of faith and practice for believers in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:12, Romans 10:17). We believe that the Canon is complete and nothing is to be added to it or taken from it (Revelation 22:18-19)
Doctrine of God
We believe the Godhead is eternally existent in three persons (Genesis 1:26). He exists as God the Father (John 6:27). He Exists as God the Son (Hebrews 1:8, Titus 2:13, Colossians 2:8-9). He exists as God, the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4).
We believe these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4, John 1:1, John 14:16-17)
We believe these three are worthy of the same homage, confidence, and obedience (Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15).
We believe that God is Spirit, and is infinite (John 4:24, Psalms 145:3, Romans 12:2).
We believe that God is the source, support, and end of all things (Genesis 1:1, Exodus 3:14, Colossians 1:15-17).
Doctrine of Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His eternal existence with God the Father (John 10:30, John 1:1-4). We believe He was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary and was true God and man 9Matthew 1:22-23, Luke 1:35, Isaiah 7:14). He was tested in all points as we are, yet was without sin (Matthew 4, Hebrews 4:15). He died on Calvary’s cross being made sin for mankind, and there shed His blood to atone for our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was buried and on the third day rose in bodily form from the grave according to the scriptures, proving that He was God (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 1:4). We believe He is coming again, and that His coming is personal and imminent. First, He will take His blood-bought Church into heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:50-57). Secondly, He is coming with His Church to establish His Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 19:11-16). We believe Jesus Christ is our Prophet, Priest, and King, and the only mediator between God and Man, and is seated at the right hand of God (1 Timothy 2:5-6, Hebrews 1:13).
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is a divine person, co-equal and eternally existing with God the Father and God the Son (Matthew 28:19-20, 2 Corinthians 13:14, John 14:16-17). We believe He is the author and teacher of the infallible Word, and that He came to fulfill His ministry in accord with Christ’s promise (John 14:26, Acts 1:4-8). He convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, and seals men, making believers children of God by the new birth. He infills, empowers, and guides the believer during their pilgrimage on earth (1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 1:13-14, 5:18).
We believe there is only one way to be filled with the Spirit, and that is by walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit. We do not believe in tongues as a sign that one is filled with the Spirit, or is even a child of God. Tongues as represented in scripture serve a specific purpose and were known languages.
Doctrine of Man
We believe man was brought into being by the formative and creative act of God (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:1-7), and has three phases of consciousness, body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23). We believe man was created in the image of God and after His likeness and was the highest of God’s creation. Man was created for God’s glory (1 Corinthians 6:20, Revelation 4:11), his original moral nature being positively good, yet with the power to choose evil. Man chose to do evil and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is conscious and eternal separation from God (Genesis 3). Because of one man’s disobedience, all mankind was born with a sinful nature, evidenced by sinful acts (Romans 5:12). Man is totally depraved, and if he is not born again, he is eternally lost (John 3:3, 5, Revelation 20:11-15, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
Doctrine of Sin
We believe the basis for all sin is selfishness, and that sin originated in the heart of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-14). It entered the human race through the deception of Eve and the disobedience of Adam (Genesis 3). We believe all men are sinners, having inherited Adam’s sinful nature (Romans 5:12), and it may be manifested as an act, thought, or state (Matthew 15:19-20). Sin is an offense against God, our fellowman, and self (Luke 15:18-19). It is universal, all men are sinners, but man’s sin has affected the whole of creation. Sin may be described as falling short, missing the mark, or passing over the prescribed line.
We believe sin brings a penalty which is summed up as death, lostness, condemnation, guilt, perdition, punishment, eternal. Because man is totally depraved, no man is capable of recovering himself (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Doctrine of Salvation
We believe a person is saved when he repents of his sin and exercises faith by accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior. The saved person becomes a child of God and is kept by the power of God and is eternally secure in Christ (John 1:12, Romans 8:28-30), being made members of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 1:22-23, 4:4).
We believe the source of salvation is the Godhead, and the human object of salvation is mankind; that is for all time, past, present, and future, and is shared by all believers alike. It comes only by the grace of God (Ephesians 2:8-9) and is mediated through Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5-6).
We believe salvation is preceded by repentance; that it is a change of mind towards God accompanied by godly sorrow for sin and produces a change of life. It is man’s own act performed under the influence and by the power of God.
We believe a person is justified on the single ground of the shed blood of Jesus Christ when he appropriates it by faith; our guarantee is the resurrection of Christ. We believe salvation will be complete when Jesus Christ comes for His own (Romans 8:19-21, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
We believe the child of God possesses two natures: a fallen nature which they received from Adam and by which he desires to worship the created rather than the Creator which we will not be freed from until death or the rapture of the church; a new nature which desires to do God’s will and is opposed to our old nature (Romans 7:15-25).
We believe when a person accepts Christ as a personal Savior, they are sanctified or set apart; that is, sanctification is past, present, and future.
Past sanctification was accomplished by the blood of Christ (Hebrews 13:12), and set us apart forever as God’s own possession (Hebrews 13:13); it confers upon us perfect holiness (Hebrews 10:14), and is needed to give us entrance into the Holy Place (Hebrews 10:19, 26)’ it issues in a life of obedience (Hebrews 9:13-14, 1 Peter 1:2), and is a present possession of all true believers (1 Corinthians 1:2, Acts 26:17-18).
Present sanctification is the work of God by which the believer is progressively set apart from sin and brought towards perfection; it is accomplished through the word God (John 17:17) it is based on sanctification by the blood, it requires an active response on our part, and it results in our control of fleshly appetites and lusts (1 Thessalonians 4:2-7), a fitness for God’s service (2 Timothy 2:21, 3:16-17), and fellowship with Christ (John 13:8, 14:23, 15:3-4).
Future sanctification is a work where God will wholly finish the process of sanctification (1 Thessalonians 5:23). It will be completed at the coming of Christ (1 Thessalonians 3:12-13, Philippians 1:6), and it results in the fact that we will be like Christ (1 John 3:2). It will be accomplished by the unhindered vision of Christ (1 John 3:2b). It is pledged by the faithfulness of God (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).
Doctrine of the Church
We believe the term church has a two-fold usage in Scripture: the universal church, or the Body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23, Colossians 1:18-2:19), and the local church.
The Universal Church
We believe the Body of Christ is composed of all born again people, regardless of local church affiliation. Its members include all persons called out by the power of God to faith in a crucified and risen Christ. They are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and are a unity in Christ. Christ foretold it in Matthew 16:18.
The Local Church
We believe a local church is composed of believers in Christ, who regularly worship together in one geographic locality, are autonomous, self-governing, and have no ecclesiastical organization in authority over their local body. The local church’s members are received by profession of faith and have as believers ordinarily taken the step of baptism in committing themselves to Jesus Christ and His Church.
The fellowship of the early church included baptism and the Lord’s Supper. These two ordinances were held as means by which members of the church were brought into communion with Jesus Christ and were identified by the Holy Spirit with His death and resurrection. They are thus visible representations of the Gospel.
The institution of the Lord’s Supper is recorded by three of the gospels (Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-26, Luke 22:14-20) and Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:23-24). It is in Luke’s and Paul’s accounts that the Lord’s explicit command is given to “do this in remembrance of Me.” From the scriptural evidence, it seems abundantly clear that Jesus intended the Lord’s Supper to be primarily a memorial observance of Him with the attending thought of fellowship with the members of His body both with each other and with Christ. Included in the idea of remembrance is a threefold significance – (1) recalling Christ’s past, once for all, never to be repeated, substitutionary redemptive sacrifice for all men, (2) Christ’s saving presence, (3) Christ’s future coming.
In summary, the significance of the Lord’s Supper is that it is a memorial to Christ (1 Corinthians 11:24-25); it is a guarantee of the New Covenant (Luke 22:20); it is a proclamation of Christ’s death (1 Corinthians 11:26); it is in anticipation of Christ’s coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and it is for fellowship with Christ and believers (1 Corinthians 10:21).
The practice of believer’s baptism was virtually universal in the early church and was used as the rite of Christian initiation into the church (Acts 2:38-41, 8:12-13, 36-39, 9:18, 10:43-48, 16:33-34, 18:8). Like the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, baptism was commanded by our Lord (Matthew 28:18-20).
It is not the act of water baptism that saves, but it is merely an external expression of internal saving faith. Faith is the sole condition of salvation (John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Acts 10:43). The ordinance of baptism in an external symbol of the believer’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Romans 6:3-4, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:21).
As with the Lord’s Supper, baptism is an external symbol of an internal spiritual reality or experience. When immersion is the mode utilized, the symbolism is all the clearer with the believer going under the water and coming out again, representing identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3-6).
The local church is organized and has for its officers: Pastors/Elders and Deacons. Pastors/Elders should be men who are beyond reproach as prescribed in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. Deacons, as well as any other officers as may be needed, should be men or women who live as prescribed in 1 Timothy 3:8-13 and may be appointed to properly carry on the ministry of the church and fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). We believe that the local church should meet together regularly for fellowship, worship, Bible study, and the Lord’s Supper (Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 Corinthians 11:24).
The local church should be separated from all forms of worldliness and should not scripturally join in with modernists and unbelievers in any official worship services (2 Corinthians 6:14-18, 1 Corinthians 10:20-21).
We believe the local church should pattern itself as nearly as possible after the early churches in the book of Acts and following the instructions of inspired New Testament authors to those churches. The local church should seek to glorify Jesus Christ in all things, using the Bible as their only rule of faith and practice.
Doctrine of Angels
We believe angels are spirits, immortal beings created by God. They are powerful, intelligent, of various ranks and orders (Colossians 1:16, Ephesians 6:11-12).
We believe angels are of two categories, good and evil. The good angels are personal ministering agents of God (Matthew 4:10-11, Hebrews 1:14), while evil or fallen angels fell when Satan sought to exalt himself (Ezekiel 28:12-17) and now have their habitation upon this earth. They execute Satan’s purpose (1 John 5:19).
We believe Satan is a spiritual being who was created perfect by God and was the highest of God’s creation until pride was found in his heart (Isaiah 14:12-14). He is the archenemy of God and His creation. He is the chief adversary of God’s children (Ephesians 6:11-12, 16, 1 Peter 5:8). He has at his command a great host of fallen angels and demons to carry out his purposes. He is the author of sin (John 8:44). He is not omnipotent and can be overcome by the power of God. The doom of Satan and his angels is sealed (Revelation 12:10, 20:10).
Doctrine of Last Things
We believe at death the spirits of believers go to be with the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven (John 14:1-3, 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Philippians 1:23-24), while the spirts of the unregenerate go to a place of conscious punishment called Hell (Luke 16:19-26).
We believe in the blessed hope, which is the personal, bodily, pre-tribulational, pre-millennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior for His Church at which time the body and the spirit of the dead in Christ will be united and will be caught up bodily with living saints to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Those who remain will enter into the tribulation period or the 70th week of Daniel (Daniel 9:27, 11:31, Matthew 24:15-22). At the close of this period, Jesus will come with His saints to establish His earthly kingdom, and the beast and false prophet will be judged (Revelation 19:20). Satan will be bound for 1000 years, during which Christ will rule with a rod of iron (Revelation 20:1-3). After the 1000-year reign, Satan will be loosed for a season and deceive the nations (Revelation 20:7-8). He will then be cast into the lake of fire. The second resurrection (the resurrection of the unjust) shall take place and these who had no part in the first resurrection shall stand before the Great White Throne for judgment and be cast into the lake of fire. Then there will be a new heaven and a new earth (Revelation 20:10-15, 21:1).
We believe the Bible is the Word of God, and that it was written over a period of 1600 years by 40 or more writers, containing 66 books of which each chapter and verse form a unity. It contains two main divisions: the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament is historical, poetical, and prophetical. The New Testament is historical, epistolary, and prophetical. We believe in plenary (completely), verbal (every word) inspired Word of God as contained in the original manuscripts; that each portion is equally inspired and contains no contradictions (2 Timothy 3:16-17, 2 Peter 1:20-21, Hebrews 1:1-2). We also believe that the Bible is the only rule of faith and practice for believers in Jesus Christ (Hebrews 4:12, Romans 10:17). We believe that the Canon is complete and nothing is to be added to it or taken from it (Revelation 22:18-19)
Doctrine of God
We believe the Godhead is eternally existent in three persons (Genesis 1:26). He exists as God the Father (John 6:27). He Exists as God the Son (Hebrews 1:8, Titus 2:13, Colossians 2:8-9). He exists as God, the Holy Spirit (Acts 5:3-4).
We believe these three are one God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4, John 1:1, John 14:16-17)
We believe these three are worthy of the same homage, confidence, and obedience (Matthew 28:19-20, Mark 16:15).
We believe that God is Spirit, and is infinite (John 4:24, Psalms 145:3, Romans 12:2).
We believe that God is the source, support, and end of all things (Genesis 1:1, Exodus 3:14, Colossians 1:15-17).
Doctrine of Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and His eternal existence with God the Father (John 10:30, John 1:1-4). We believe He was begotten by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary and was true God and man 9Matthew 1:22-23, Luke 1:35, Isaiah 7:14). He was tested in all points as we are, yet was without sin (Matthew 4, Hebrews 4:15). He died on Calvary’s cross being made sin for mankind, and there shed His blood to atone for our sins (2 Corinthians 5:21). He was buried and on the third day rose in bodily form from the grave according to the scriptures, proving that He was God (1 Corinthians 15:1-4, Romans 1:4). We believe He is coming again, and that His coming is personal and imminent. First, He will take His blood-bought Church into heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, 1 Corinthians 15:50-57). Secondly, He is coming with His Church to establish His Millennial Kingdom (Revelation 19:11-16). We believe Jesus Christ is our Prophet, Priest, and King, and the only mediator between God and Man, and is seated at the right hand of God (1 Timothy 2:5-6, Hebrews 1:13).
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
We believe the Holy Spirit is a divine person, co-equal and eternally existing with God the Father and God the Son (Matthew 28:19-20, 2 Corinthians 13:14, John 14:16-17). We believe He is the author and teacher of the infallible Word, and that He came to fulfill His ministry in accord with Christ’s promise (John 14:26, Acts 1:4-8). He convicts men of sin, regenerates, indwells, and seals men, making believers children of God by the new birth. He infills, empowers, and guides the believer during their pilgrimage on earth (1 Corinthians 3:16, Ephesians 1:13-14, 5:18).
We believe there is only one way to be filled with the Spirit, and that is by walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit. We do not believe in tongues as a sign that one is filled with the Spirit, or is even a child of God. Tongues as represented in scripture serve a specific purpose and were known languages.
Doctrine of Man
We believe man was brought into being by the formative and creative act of God (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:1-7), and has three phases of consciousness, body, soul, and spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:23). We believe man was created in the image of God and after His likeness and was the highest of God’s creation. Man was created for God’s glory (1 Corinthians 6:20, Revelation 4:11), his original moral nature being positively good, yet with the power to choose evil. Man chose to do evil and thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is conscious and eternal separation from God (Genesis 3). Because of one man’s disobedience, all mankind was born with a sinful nature, evidenced by sinful acts (Romans 5:12). Man is totally depraved, and if he is not born again, he is eternally lost (John 3:3, 5, Revelation 20:11-15, 1 Corinthians 15:21-22).
Doctrine of Sin
We believe the basis for all sin is selfishness, and that sin originated in the heart of Satan (Isaiah 14:12-14). It entered the human race through the deception of Eve and the disobedience of Adam (Genesis 3). We believe all men are sinners, having inherited Adam’s sinful nature (Romans 5:12), and it may be manifested as an act, thought, or state (Matthew 15:19-20). Sin is an offense against God, our fellowman, and self (Luke 15:18-19). It is universal, all men are sinners, but man’s sin has affected the whole of creation. Sin may be described as falling short, missing the mark, or passing over the prescribed line.
We believe sin brings a penalty which is summed up as death, lostness, condemnation, guilt, perdition, punishment, eternal. Because man is totally depraved, no man is capable of recovering himself (Ephesians 2:8-9).
Doctrine of Salvation
We believe a person is saved when he repents of his sin and exercises faith by accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior. The saved person becomes a child of God and is kept by the power of God and is eternally secure in Christ (John 1:12, Romans 8:28-30), being made members of the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 12:13, Ephesians 1:22-23, 4:4).
We believe the source of salvation is the Godhead, and the human object of salvation is mankind; that is for all time, past, present, and future, and is shared by all believers alike. It comes only by the grace of God (Ephesians 2:8-9) and is mediated through Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5-6).
We believe salvation is preceded by repentance; that it is a change of mind towards God accompanied by godly sorrow for sin and produces a change of life. It is man’s own act performed under the influence and by the power of God.
We believe a person is justified on the single ground of the shed blood of Jesus Christ when he appropriates it by faith; our guarantee is the resurrection of Christ. We believe salvation will be complete when Jesus Christ comes for His own (Romans 8:19-21, 1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
We believe the child of God possesses two natures: a fallen nature which they received from Adam and by which he desires to worship the created rather than the Creator which we will not be freed from until death or the rapture of the church; a new nature which desires to do God’s will and is opposed to our old nature (Romans 7:15-25).
We believe when a person accepts Christ as a personal Savior, they are sanctified or set apart; that is, sanctification is past, present, and future.
Past sanctification was accomplished by the blood of Christ (Hebrews 13:12), and set us apart forever as God’s own possession (Hebrews 13:13); it confers upon us perfect holiness (Hebrews 10:14), and is needed to give us entrance into the Holy Place (Hebrews 10:19, 26)’ it issues in a life of obedience (Hebrews 9:13-14, 1 Peter 1:2), and is a present possession of all true believers (1 Corinthians 1:2, Acts 26:17-18).
Present sanctification is the work of God by which the believer is progressively set apart from sin and brought towards perfection; it is accomplished through the word God (John 17:17) it is based on sanctification by the blood, it requires an active response on our part, and it results in our control of fleshly appetites and lusts (1 Thessalonians 4:2-7), a fitness for God’s service (2 Timothy 2:21, 3:16-17), and fellowship with Christ (John 13:8, 14:23, 15:3-4).
Future sanctification is a work where God will wholly finish the process of sanctification (1 Thessalonians 5:23). It will be completed at the coming of Christ (1 Thessalonians 3:12-13, Philippians 1:6), and it results in the fact that we will be like Christ (1 John 3:2). It will be accomplished by the unhindered vision of Christ (1 John 3:2b). It is pledged by the faithfulness of God (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24).
Doctrine of the Church
We believe the term church has a two-fold usage in Scripture: the universal church, or the Body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23, Colossians 1:18-2:19), and the local church.
The Universal Church
We believe the Body of Christ is composed of all born again people, regardless of local church affiliation. Its members include all persons called out by the power of God to faith in a crucified and risen Christ. They are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and are a unity in Christ. Christ foretold it in Matthew 16:18.
The Local Church
We believe a local church is composed of believers in Christ, who regularly worship together in one geographic locality, are autonomous, self-governing, and have no ecclesiastical organization in authority over their local body. The local church’s members are received by profession of faith and have as believers ordinarily taken the step of baptism in committing themselves to Jesus Christ and His Church.
The fellowship of the early church included baptism and the Lord’s Supper. These two ordinances were held as means by which members of the church were brought into communion with Jesus Christ and were identified by the Holy Spirit with His death and resurrection. They are thus visible representations of the Gospel.
The institution of the Lord’s Supper is recorded by three of the gospels (Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-26, Luke 22:14-20) and Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:23-24). It is in Luke’s and Paul’s accounts that the Lord’s explicit command is given to “do this in remembrance of Me.” From the scriptural evidence, it seems abundantly clear that Jesus intended the Lord’s Supper to be primarily a memorial observance of Him with the attending thought of fellowship with the members of His body both with each other and with Christ. Included in the idea of remembrance is a threefold significance – (1) recalling Christ’s past, once for all, never to be repeated, substitutionary redemptive sacrifice for all men, (2) Christ’s saving presence, (3) Christ’s future coming.
In summary, the significance of the Lord’s Supper is that it is a memorial to Christ (1 Corinthians 11:24-25); it is a guarantee of the New Covenant (Luke 22:20); it is a proclamation of Christ’s death (1 Corinthians 11:26); it is in anticipation of Christ’s coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and it is for fellowship with Christ and believers (1 Corinthians 10:21).
The practice of believer’s baptism was virtually universal in the early church and was used as the rite of Christian initiation into the church (Acts 2:38-41, 8:12-13, 36-39, 9:18, 10:43-48, 16:33-34, 18:8). Like the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, baptism was commanded by our Lord (Matthew 28:18-20).
It is not the act of water baptism that saves, but it is merely an external expression of internal saving faith. Faith is the sole condition of salvation (John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9, Acts 10:43). The ordinance of baptism in an external symbol of the believer’s identification with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection (Romans 6:3-4, Colossians 2:12, 1 Peter 3:21).
As with the Lord’s Supper, baptism is an external symbol of an internal spiritual reality or experience. When immersion is the mode utilized, the symbolism is all the clearer with the believer going under the water and coming out again, representing identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3-6).
The local church is organized and has for its officers: Pastors/Elders and Deacons. Pastors/Elders should be men who are beyond reproach as prescribed in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. Deacons, as well as any other officers as may be needed, should be men or women who live as prescribed in 1 Timothy 3:8-13 and may be appointed to properly carry on the ministry of the church and fulfill the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20). We believe that the local church should meet together regularly for fellowship, worship, Bible study, and the Lord’s Supper (Hebrews 10:24-25, 1 Corinthians 11:24).
The local church should be separated from all forms of worldliness and should not scripturally join in with modernists and unbelievers in any official worship services (2 Corinthians 6:14-18, 1 Corinthians 10:20-21).
We believe the local church should pattern itself as nearly as possible after the early churches in the book of Acts and following the instructions of inspired New Testament authors to those churches. The local church should seek to glorify Jesus Christ in all things, using the Bible as their only rule of faith and practice.
Doctrine of Angels
We believe angels are spirits, immortal beings created by God. They are powerful, intelligent, of various ranks and orders (Colossians 1:16, Ephesians 6:11-12).
We believe angels are of two categories, good and evil. The good angels are personal ministering agents of God (Matthew 4:10-11, Hebrews 1:14), while evil or fallen angels fell when Satan sought to exalt himself (Ezekiel 28:12-17) and now have their habitation upon this earth. They execute Satan’s purpose (1 John 5:19).
We believe Satan is a spiritual being who was created perfect by God and was the highest of God’s creation until pride was found in his heart (Isaiah 14:12-14). He is the archenemy of God and His creation. He is the chief adversary of God’s children (Ephesians 6:11-12, 16, 1 Peter 5:8). He has at his command a great host of fallen angels and demons to carry out his purposes. He is the author of sin (John 8:44). He is not omnipotent and can be overcome by the power of God. The doom of Satan and his angels is sealed (Revelation 12:10, 20:10).
Doctrine of Last Things
We believe at death the spirits of believers go to be with the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven (John 14:1-3, 2 Corinthians 5:6-8, Philippians 1:23-24), while the spirts of the unregenerate go to a place of conscious punishment called Hell (Luke 16:19-26).
We believe in the blessed hope, which is the personal, bodily, pre-tribulational, pre-millennial, and imminent return of our Lord and Savior for His Church at which time the body and the spirit of the dead in Christ will be united and will be caught up bodily with living saints to meet the Lord in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). Those who remain will enter into the tribulation period or the 70th week of Daniel (Daniel 9:27, 11:31, Matthew 24:15-22). At the close of this period, Jesus will come with His saints to establish His earthly kingdom, and the beast and false prophet will be judged (Revelation 19:20). Satan will be bound for 1000 years, during which Christ will rule with a rod of iron (Revelation 20:1-3). After the 1000-year reign, Satan will be loosed for a season and deceive the nations (Revelation 20:7-8). He will then be cast into the lake of fire. The second resurrection (the resurrection of the unjust) shall take place and these who had no part in the first resurrection shall stand before the Great White Throne for judgment and be cast into the lake of fire. Then there will be a new heaven and a new earth (Revelation 20:10-15, 21:1).
Join us as we worship the Lord together.
Drummond Community Church is located just off of MT Highway 1 on the Pintler Veterans Memorial Scenic Highway.
Location
1 Grace Lane Drummond MT. 59832 |
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 333 Drummond MT. 59832 |
Service Time
Sunday Morning 11 AM |