Our Denomination
Free Will Baptist Churches are individually owned and governed by local Church leadership and membership.
This autonomy gives each church body the flexibility to serve a particular community.
The life of each Church is determined by an ability to proclaim the consistent Gospel message of Jesus while living a Spirit filled life within our communities.
Our Church is a member of the Kosciusko Association, one of four Local Associations within the Indiana State Association of Churches.
What makes us different?
Free Will Baptist Churches are a group of churches that share a common history, name, and an acceptance of the Arminian theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will, based on the idea of general atonement. Free Will Baptists share similar soteriological views with General Baptists, Separate Baptists and some United Baptists
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The major difference between Free Will Baptists and the majority of Baptists, including the Southern Baptist Convention and her offshoots as well as fundamentalist Baptists, is that Free Will Baptists do not hold to the traditional Baptist view of "perseverance of the saints" commonly referred to as the "Doctrine of Eternal Security" or "once saved, always saved", where a person, once having made a "salvation decision", cannot by any means later end up "lost". Instead, they teach that a person can "lose one's salvation."
The word "lose" is inaccurate, though. The concept is not of someone sinning occasionally and thus accidentally ending up "not saved", but instead of someone "repudiating" their initial choice by continual, willful sinning and an unwillingness to repent once confronted.
In addition, Free Will Baptists practice foot washing as a "third ordinance" of the church along with baptism and communion, a practice common in other evangelical groups but rejected by the majority of Baptist denominations.
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