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.kemproadbaptist.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.gracecovenant.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.