About Our Church

Providence Missionary Baptist Church was founded in 1890. Our church has a rich history of faithfulness in its service to God and the people of Center, Tx and all of Shelby County. While we thank God for our rich history, we are also looking to the future. We labor in joyful anticipation to what God will do in the future as we continue to labor for the sake of His Kingdom!

Our Commitments

We are committed to “doing church” the way the Bible tells us to. Below you can find out some specifics about the way we do things here at Providence!


Expository Preaching

If you happen to drop in on any given Sunday, you will likely find us doing a verse-by-verse sermon series through a book of the Bible. We believe understanding the Bible the way that God hsa given it is paramount to our spiritual growth. Understanding the text of Scripture is everything to us! Book-by-book, verse-by-verse, word-by-word we want to know what God has said!


Singing

We seek to honor God through the way we sing to Him! He is worthy of the best singing we can offer! We are blessed with a lot of pianists and guitarists who accompany our congregational singing!


Reverence

At Providence our services are reverent. Being reverent doesn’t mean that we don’t smile and laugh and enjoy one another’s presence. It simply means that when we come before God in worship, there is a weightiness and seriousness to it. A good way to understand the atmosphere of our worship is that it is “seriously joyful”.


Discipleship

One of the greatest concerns we have for the people of Providence is their spiritual growth. We are not content to let people become a part of our church and remain stagnant in their walk with the Lord. We take seriously Jesus’ command to make disciples. We hold each other accountable and spur one another on to love and good works.


Missions

Jesus gave the Great Commission to His church. To go forth and teach all nations. We are involved in mission work all around the world. We understand that the gospel of Jesus Christ is not just for a specific group of people, but is God’s message of redemption for the whole world! We also understand the importance of our mission field in our own community. We take seriously the need for the gospel right here in our own town.

Our Beliefs

We invite you to explore our beliefs and join us in our pursuit of living out our faith in boldness and passion.

  • The Great Commandment

    We believe that love one for another as Jesus loves the believer manifests our discipleship, proves our love for God and symbolizes our authority as New Testament churches. Love is therefore the great commandment of the LORD Jesus Christ upon which all other are dependent.



    Matthew 22:35-40; John 13:34-35; John 15:12; 1 John 4:7-21; 1 John 5:1-3; Revelation 2:4-5

  • The Bible

    We believe in the infallible, verbal inspiration of the whole Bible and that the Bible is the all-sufficient rule of faith and practice.



    Psalm 119:160; 2 Timothy 3:16-17

  • The Trinity

    We believe in the personal triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, equal in divine perfection.



    Matthew 28:19

  • Creation

    We believe in the Genesis account of Creation.



    Genesis 1-2

  • Satan

    We believe that Satan is a fallen angel, the archenemy of God and man, the unholy god of this world, and that his destiny is the eternal lake of fire.



    Isaiah 14:12-15; Ezekiel 28:11-19; Matthew 25:41; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 6:10-17; Revelation 20:10

  • Virgin Birth

    We believe in the virgin birth and sinless humanity of Jesus Christ.



    Matthew 1:18-20; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:22

  • Deity of Christ

    We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ.



    John 10:30; John 1:1, 14; 2 Corinthians 5:19

  • Holy Spirit

    We believe the Holy Spirit is the divine Administrator for Jesus Christ in His churches.



    Luke 24:49; John 14:16-17; Acts 1:4-5, 8; Acts 2:1-4

  • Spiritual Gifts

    We believe that miraculous spiritual manifestation gifts were done away when the Bible was completed. Faith, Hope, and Love are the vital abiding Spiritual Gifts.



    1 Corinthians 12-14

  • Man

    We believe that Man was created in the image of God and lived in innocency until he fell by voluntary transgression from his sinless state, the result being that all mankind are sinners.



    Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:6-24; Romans 5:12,19

  • Suffering of Jesus

    We believe that the suffering and death of Jesus Christ was substitutionary for all mankind and is efficacious only to those who believe.



    Isaiah 53:6; Hebrews 2:9; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2

  • Resurrection

    We believe in the bodily resurrection and ascension of Christ and the bodily resurrection of His saints.



    Matthew 28:1-7; Acts 1:9-11; 1 Corinthians 15:42-58; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

  • Return of Christ

    We believe in the premillennial, personal, bodily return of Christ as the crowning event of the Gentile age. This event will include the resurrection of the righteous to eternal heaven, and the Millennium will be followed by the resurrection of the unrighteous unto eternal punishment in the lake of fire and that the righteous shall enter into the heaven age.



    John 14:1-6; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Revelation 19; Revelation 20:4-6; Revelation 20:11-15; Revelation 21:8

  • Salvation

    We believe that the depraved sinner is saved wholly by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and the requisites to regeneration are repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit convicts sinners, regenerates, seals, secures, and indwells every believer.



    Luke 13:3-5; John 3:6; John 3:16-18; John 16:8,9; Acts 20:21; Romans 6:23; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Ephesians 2:8,9; Ephesians 4:30; Titus 3:5

  • Eternal Security

    We believe that all who trust Jesus Christ for salvation are eternally secure in Him and shall not perish.



    John 3:36; John 5:24; John 10:27-30; Romans 8:35-39; Hebrews 10:39; 1 Peter 1:5

  • God’s Children

    We believe that God deals with believers as His children, that He chastises the disobedient, and that He rewards the obedient.



    Matthew 16:27; Matthew 25:14-23; John 1:12; Hebrews 12:5-11; 2 John 8; Revelation 22:12

  • The Church

    We believe that Jesus Christ established His church during His ministry on earth and that it is always a local, visible assembly of scripturally baptized believers in covenant relationship to carry out the Commission of the Lord Jesus Christ, and each church is an independent, self-governing body, and no other ecclesiastical body may exercise authority over it. We believe that Jesus Christ gave the Great Commission to the New Testament churches only, and that He promised the perpetuity of His churches.



    Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 16:18; Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 1:14-20; John 1:35-51; Ephesians 3:21

  • Church Ordinances

    We believe that there are two pictorial ordinances in the Lord's churches: Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Scriptural baptism is the immersion of penitent believers in water, administered by the authority of a New Testament church in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.



    The Lord's Supper is a memorial ordinance, restricted to the members of the church observing the ordinance.



    Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:12, 38; Romans 6:4; 1 Corinthians 5:11-13; 1 Corinthians 11:1-2, 17-20, 26

  • Church Offices

    We believe that there are two divinely appointed offices in a church, pastors and deacons, to be filled by men whose qualifications are set forth in Titus and 1 Timothy.

  • Associations

    We believe that all associations, fellowships, and committees are, and properly should be, servants of, and under control of the churches.



    Matthew 20:25-28

  • Freedom of Worship

    We believe in freedom of worship without interference from the government and affirm our belief in civil obedience, unless the laws and regulations of civil government run contrary to the Holy Scriptures.



    Romans 13:1-7; 1 Peter 2:13-15

  • Marriage

    We believe the Biblical definition of marriage is the union between a man and a woman.



    Genesis 2:21-24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:6-9; 1 Corinthians 7:2-4; Ephesians 5:22-31

  • Gender

    We believe God designates each individual their gender. God ordained two genders, male and female. Mankind does not possess the authority to identify themselves differently than their biological sex assigned by God, and any attempt to alter one's gender is sin.



    Genesis 1:27; 5:2; Matthew 19:4 and Mark 10:6; Job 40:8; Jeremiah 13:23