Imperishable Inheritance

I’ve heard of some indi­vid­u­als search­ing for reformed bap­tist churches in the Dayton area, but unfor­tu­nately both web searches and others knowl­edge of these con­gre­ga­tions is limited.  I will talk about what I believe to be the three RB churches I know about in the area, but if I’ve missed on please let me know.

I have vis­ited all three, and I am famil­iar with dif­fer­ing levels of each congregation.  I will high­light some major dif­fer­ing points between the three, but most of the dif­fer­ences are pri­mar­ily ecclessi­as­ti­cal and not soteriological.  They will also range from the most “traditional” to more “contemporary” in how they hold their services.

Kemp Road Baptist Church

Kemp is the church I am a member of and frequent.  It comes out of an asso­ci­a­tion called the Asso­ci­a­tion of Reformed Bap­tist Churches of Amer­ica or ARBCA.  They are creedal­is­tic, in par­tic­u­lar the 1689 2nd London Bap­tist Con­fes­sion of Faith.  They are fairly strict ces­sa­tion­ists and sab­batar­i­ans, and the con­gre­ga­tion num­bers between 100-150 each Sunday morning.

www.​kem​proad​bap​tist.com

Grace Covenant

Grace Covenant is right down the road from Kemp, and there are very sim­i­lar in their the­o­log­i­cal adher­ence to a con­fes­sion although they choose the West­min­ster Con­fes­sion of Faith although they are baptistic.  You will find more the­o­log­i­cal lib­erty amongst their lead­er­ship with some being Pres­by­ter­ian, Dis­pen­sa­tion­al­ists, etc.  They also employ a slightly more con­tem­po­rary form of music then Kemp would.  The teach­ing pastor also is a member of the Fel­low­ship of Inde­pen­dent Reformed Evan­gel­i­cals or FIRE.  They also share a sim­i­lar con­gre­ga­tion size to Kemp.

www.​grace​covenant.info

Clearcreek Chapel

Clearcreek Chapel is unfor­tu­nately the one I know the least about, but I have vis­ited as well as con­versed with some congregants.  Their ser­vices would be more con­tem­po­rary then the pre­vi­ous two, and the con­gre­ga­tion size is also larger then both Grace and Kemp.  Of the three, they prob­a­bly wear the RB title the least on their sleeve making it more invit­ing to those who don’t under­stand the Doc­trines of Grace.

www.​clearcreekchapel.org

If I Forgot Something

If I forgot a con­gre­ga­tion and/or some­one more famil­iar with the con­gre­ga­tions above would like me to alter the descrip­tions then please let me know in the comments.  This should be a good resource, how­ever, for indi­vid­u­als look­ing for reformed and bap­tis­tic churches in the Dayton, Ohio (OH) area.