Welcome to Lighthouse Community Church!
Interested in making Lighthouse your home church? Our "New Members" Classes are the place to start!
This class is taken all online & it is the perfect place to find out how Lighthouse runs, where you can get plugged in, and get answers to any other questions you may have about Lighthouse.
Please contact the office (618-327-4006) if you have any questions, or if you are interested in taking this course.
Lighthouse Community Church exists:
To Live by Faith in Jesus
To be Known by Love through Jesus
To be a Voice of Hope because of Jesus
For the Glory and Renown of Jesus
This mission is founded on the testimony God inspired Paul to speak of to the church at Thessalonica in 1 Thessalonians 1:3, "We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ."
To Live by Faith in Jesus
- Ephesians 2:8-9 is clear that we are saved by the Grace of God through our faith in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and His victorious resurrection 3 days later.
- To live in that faith is defined by Jesus in Luke 9:23 when we die to ourselves and follow Him.
To be Known by Love through Jesus
- 1 Corinthians 13 provides us with a clear understanding of how God defines love.
- We are able to love the way God commands us to because God loves through us as we abide in Him and He abides in us according to 1 John
To be a Voice of Hope because of Jesus
- Ephesians 2:5-7 tells of the victorious hope we have in our secured, glorious, and eternal life because of Jesus.
- It is now our duty to tell others that as Paul did and claimed that stewardship of the gospel in Colossians 1:25-28.
For the Glory and Renown of Jesus
- As we read in Isaiah 43:7, God, in His all-surpassing wisdom, created us to make His glory and splendor known.
- According to 1 Corinthians 10:31, we are to do this in all things.
We don't believe that church should be complicated. We exist for the glory and renown of Jesus! And since our mission is simple, so is our vision.
The way we believe we will accomplish our mission is by:
- Being a Community Transformed by the Gospel (Romans 12:1-2)
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Everything hinges on this first point. If we are not truly transformed from the inside out, then we are just putting on a front and playing the game of church with the rules of religion. So what does this look like? The work of the Holy Spirit has definite effects on the lives of believers that moves us from living for anything else in this world to being devoted fully to Christ.
- Being Physically & Visibly Planted in our Community (James 1:26-2:4)
This is a natural outflowing of the transformed life. We don't want to be known as a church simply because of our building or our name. We want to be known as the church because people can see it in what we do. We want people to hear our good Gospel, see our good works, and know our good love. And all of this as a reflection of what Christ has exhibited in our lives.
- Multiplying Ourselves (Matthew 9:35-38, Acts 1:8, 2 Timothy 1:6-10)
This is what we do and we will see this accomplished in 2 ways. First we will multiply ourselves in our community. We love, serve, and meet real-life needs while earning the right to speak to the eternal needs of people. We will see people graciously saved by the Lord when we intentionally share the gospel everywhere we go. Second, we will multiply ourselves through faithful discipleship.
- Leaving a legacy to be built upon
Our desire is not for our own fame or our own comfort. We will be a community of believers that gladly exhausts our life for the sake of the gospel. We are in a unique season in the life of Lighthouse and we trust God has led us to this point. As a result, our hope is to enable generations that follow to have a pattern of faith to build upon and to entrust whatever work we get to partake in to those who come after us until we are all called up into the glorious eternity that awaits us with God, our Father and King.
Below is an overview of our beliefs as they pertain to core doctrines. If you desire to know in more detail what we believe, please see The Baptist Faith and Message which we hold to in it’s entirety.
- The Bible
The Bible is God’s way of telling us who He is. It was written by men who were divinely inspired by God. It is completely perfect, trustworthy, and without any mixture of any error. All of Scripture points to Jesus Christ. And it reveals how we are to respond to God and conduct our daily lives.
- God
There is only one living and true God. He is the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the Universe. He is all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere. And the eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
- God the Father
God as Father reigns over His creation with care. He is infinitely loving and wise. And He adopts any person as a child when they put their faith in Jesus Christ.
- God the Son
Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God. In what is called the incarnation, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. Jesus came to do the will of the Father and complete His Work. He was tempted with sin just like us, yet He remained perfect and sinless. He lived the life we could not (perfect righteousness). He died the death we deserve. And rose from the grave 3 days later, overcoming death, and offering eternal life to all who believe and follow Him.
- God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit of God convicts people of sin and righteousness. He enables people to understand the truth of God and calls all who will believe to the Savior. He leads believers to live obediently for Jesus, comforts the hurting, and gives spiritual gifts through which we can serve God in ministry.
- Salvation of Man
We believe that salvation is through Jesus Christ alone and the atonement and forgiveness He extended to us on the cross. We believe that man was created in the image of God, that man sinned (rebelled against God) and because of the fall, incurred both a physical death and a spiritual death (eternal separation from God). We believe that all human beings are born with a sinful nature. We believe that all who call upon the name of the Lord as Savior will be saved and will spend eternity with God.
- Baptism
We believe baptism is to be done by those who have trusted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Baptism does not save anyone. It is simply an act of obedience. Baptism is an outward symbol of the believer’s faith. Just as Christ died, was buried, and rose again, believers are fully immersed in the water signifying they have died to sin, buried their old way of living, and are now raised to live for Jesus.
- Communion
The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience. The elements of bread and juice symbolize the body of Jesus that was broken for us and the blood that He shed for the forgiveness of our sin. When we partake in communion, we are reminded the perfect sacrifice He made in our place, we proclaim the hope of salvation that comes from this sacrifice, and we anticipate His second coming.
- Stewardship
God is the source of all blessings. Everything we have, temporal and eternal, physical and spiritual are from Him. As a result, we want to be a good stewards of all that God has given to us and entrusted to us. We desire to serve the Lord with our time, our talents, and our treasures. We give under compulsion, but willingly, cheerfully, and liberally. We believe tithing 10% to the ministry of the Lord through our local church is just the starting point. As we discern the leading of the Spirit to give to others in need for the advancement of God’s plan on earth.
- Sharing the Gospel of Jesus
It is the duty and privilege of every believer to exhaust their life for the Lord Jesus. We share the gospel by exemplifying the life of Christ daily and by verbally sharing the good news of hope and forgiveness found alone in Him. And of course, we also like to invite our friends to church where the gospel is proclaimed without apology.
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