MEETING IN COOLIDGE - EVERY SUNDAY AT 2:00 PM

About Redemption Bible Church - Coolidge, AZ .............................................................................................................. Gospel-First Redemption Bible Church was founded on the belief that Jesus Christ is the head of the church and that the Gospel alone builds the church. All true preaching either points towards the Gospel, laying the groundwork for people to receive Christ, or it proclaims those things that flow from the Gospel as a benefit of the cross. .............................................................................................................. .............................................................................................................. Evangelism-Oriented Because only the Gospel can be the power of God unto salvation, Redemption's outreach ministries involve only those mercy ministries that combine with evangelism.  Meet Our Team ....................................... Greg Thornberg Teaching Pastor Studied at Southern Seminary's Billy Graham School of Evangelism for his Masters of Divinity and is now pursuing his Doctorate of Ministry. Greg is 52 years old, married to his beautiful wife Jennifer, and has 15 kids (birth and adopted) and 7 adorable grandchildren. ....................................... Josh Franklin Teaching Pastor Studied at Bible Study Fellowship   .............................................................................................................. Common Q&As   Q. Are you denominationally affiliated? A. Yes. Theologically we are a Southern Baptist Church and adhere to the Baptist Faith and Message. If you have attended and appreciated any healthy evangelical church in the past, you will feel at home in our church. See our doctrinal positions listed on our "What We Believe" page.   Q. What version of the Bible do you recommend? A. For younger readers and new believers, we highly recommend the NIV. For most adult believers, we recommend the ESV. And for academic study of the Bible, we recommend the NASB. We read the ESV for our services.   Q. Are small children allowed to be in the service with me? A. Absolutely. This is encouraged but not required. If your children find it too difficult to sit through the entire service, we have a family room where you can let your small children play while you listen to the sermon.   Q. Are you an expository sermon preaching church? A. Yes. The truths we preach come from the Scriptures themselves.   Q. How long are your services? A. Our average service time is about 1 hour.   Q. Regarding the after-service fellowship meal, am I welcome to attend? A. Yes! There is no obligation to stay after the main service, but everyone is invited, welcome, and wanted at our fellowship meal after service. More than half of our congregation remains after service to eat and fellowship together.   Q. Who teaches for the main service? A. RBC only has teachers and pastors who have been formally trained either by churches, ministries, colleges, or seminaries. These pastors and teachers have been affirmed by the congregation who have seen these individuals walking with the Lord faithfully for years, affirmed their calling to ministry, affirmed their soundness of doctrine, and affirmed their ability to teach. When guest pastors and teachers come, these pastors and teachers also meet the requirements above.   Q. Do you have church membership? Why and how does it work? A. Yes. Why have membership? Because the early church leaders of the Bible recognized those who made a credible profession of faith, evidenced by a new way of life, and included them into the church. This is why we consider membership to be biblical. Like the apostles, we identify believers and include them in the local church's work. Unbelievers were not admitted to be members of the church, though they were always welcome to come and hear the Gospel preached. Membership is for believers who make a credible profession of faith, show a credible change of life, and are rightly baptized (i.e., were believers when receiving baptism). Membership is voluntary and members are free to leave at any time to join another church. The duties of membership include the support of the entire church (of both fellow members and staff) through sharing of burdens, mutual edification, compassion, community outreach, defense of the faith, and decision making for the church. We also have members enter into a membership covenant promising to uphold the biblical duties of all fellow believers as commanded in Scripture (see Membership Covenant).   Q. Who is allowed to take communion at your church? A. It is our position that all who are old enough to make a credible profession of faith, have been baptized as part of that profession, and live a life demonstrating the fruits of the born again nature may participate in communion and are not required to be members of our church. However, they must be faithful members of a true, orthodox, and Gospel-preaching church.   Q. What are your church's bylaws? Link: Redemption Bible Church Bylaws