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In the Bible, we find the apostle Paul in the city of Corinth.
He was thinking of leaving, but God told him, No! ...

"... for I have much people in this city." - Acts 18:10

God wanted His people in that city to hear His word.   It was necessary that they do so.    Paul wound up staying a year and 6 months in Corinth doing just that - preaching God's word.

We know God has many people in West Columbia also.   We want them to join us.    We know God will get His people to where His word is preached.   So we do as Paul did - preach God's word, because we also know, as Paul said, that the power is in God's word - not us:

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." - Romans 1:16

God's Word - the Bible - will build up God's people as God wants them to be:

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:" - Ephesians 4:13

None of these scriptures exists in isolation.   They have a context, the scriptures around them, you also need to know to understand them correctly.   Please, go read Ephesians chapter 4 to see what God wants for his people and how He provides that.

If you truly are one of God's people - you will want to honor God by doing what He's told us to do, in the ways He's told us to do it.   He's given us everything we need to know in the Bible:

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue" - 2 Peter 1:3

We can tell you lots of good things about the church, the people, that meet here.   We can show pictures of smiling couples and happy children, implying that's what you'll get with us.   We can tell you these things, but the simplest thing is for you to come visit and see for yourself.   Ask questions.   Are we God's people?   Compare what we say and do with God's word.   God commends this:

"These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." - Acts 17:11

God's people though will be attracted to God's word.  Some people find the scriptures off-putting.   Others, who are looking for God, will realise the scriptures, the Word of God we have in the Bible, are IT!

"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth." - John 17:17

Lots of churches claim they preach the Bible. Many claim they are directly inspired by the Holy Spirit.   Why then are they all different?  Why do we have all these different denominations, different names, different practices?   Jesus came to build HIS church - one church

"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:4,5

Are you looking for a church that Jesus would recognize as His - one patterned after the church He and the Apostles established in the first century.   You can find such a church completely described in the New Testament.

Or, are you looking for a church that believes the way you do?  What do you think you'll wind up with?

In either case, we welcome you, but in the former case, we say "Welcome home!".  

In the later case, consider what happened to the church in Corinth after Paul left, when people started doing things their own way:

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment" - 1 Corinthians 1:10

Jesus doesn't want many churches - denominations, called by different names.   He died to build one church - His!

Remember, the search of God's people, for His church is of the gravest importance.    It's out there - along with many other churches also, but only one is of God.   The others will keep you from God.  This is what the adversary - Satan, wants.   We're not making this up; this isn't our peculiar doctrine - this is what JESUS said!

"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.    Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?    And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." - Matthew 7:21-23

Please read these scriptures, get them in context, so you can find and identify the church Jesus built, the church of Christ, the church striving to do the whole will of God, as found in the Bible.   Accept no substitutes.   You don't have to - read your Bible.    Come visit and study with us.

We'll show you what God says, in His word.  Do you believe in Jesus?

"Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"
- Matthew 7:21-23

It's your choice - choose wisely!