11:00 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship
12:30 a.m. Fellowship Meal
2:00 p.m. Sunday Evening Worship/Bible Study
Worship Location:
Currently meeting at the Brown's house.
149 Main Street, Milner, Georgia
For more information on our worship times and place, please contact Pastor James Brown Jr at 912-978-0279 or james@covenantcommission.org
Public worship is when the local covenanted body of Christ and their guests come together to worship God as He has directed through His Word.
The Lord’s Day worship service of Covenant Baptist Church is understood to be a service of renewing the covenantal relationship between God and His people. Thus, we celebrate the Lord’s Supper (Sacrament) weekly and enjoin all baptized members of the covenant to participate. Thus, the order of our worship follows the Biblical pattern of Call, Confession, Consecration, Communion, and Commission. God can only be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth. Commanded not to add to or detract from God’s Word, our principles of worship are:
Read the Bible
The Scriptures command us to apply reading, preaching, and teaching of the Scriptures in the congregation (I Timothy 4:13). The reading of extended passages of Scripture is to be observed by the Elders before the congregation.
Preach the Bible
The Scriptures command us to "preach the word" (2 Timothy 4:2). Preaching is not just a lecture but the explanation of a passage of Scripture. Preaching may include various forms but should include sequential exposition of the "whole counsel of God" (Acts 20:27).
The Scriptures command us to speak to ourselves and teach and admonish the church in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. In Psalms we sing the exact Word of God. In hymns we teach the doctrine of God. In Spiritual Songs we admonish to apply the Word of God.
Pray the Bible
Prayers before the congregation should be rich in Biblical and theological content. It is from the Word of God that we learn the language of Christian devotion, confession, promises, the will of God, the commands of God, and the desires of God to which we are to plead in prayer.
See the Bible
The Lord’s Supper or the Sacraments have been called the "visible word." The emblems of the supper are accompanied with Bible reading (words of instruction and warning) and theological explanation (covenant and nature of the Sacrament). They are visual symbols of Gospel truth.
We therefore submit to these principles because "faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God" (Romans 10:17).
Our belief concerning the Sabbath/Lord's Day
For more resources on the Sabbath please also see:
- On the Duty of Observing the Christian Sabbath by Rev. Davis Collins
- From the Seventh Day to the First by Rev. R.L. Dabney
The sacrament of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion will be practiced as prescribed in Holy Scripture and described in the 1689 London Baptist Confession. It is an ordinance instituted by Christ as a remembrance of His death, which purchased us from damnation and brought us into fellowship with the Father. It is to be practiced only by those who are in the New Covenant, as described above, and who are not living in consistent, unrepentant rebellion toward God in any area of their life and/or currently under church discipline. The soul who makes light of the bread and cup of the Lord shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord and thereby will bring judgment upon himself, as described in 1 Corinthians 11. Holy Communion, when administered and/or taken properly, will serve as a means to be reminded of God’s grace to His people and of our proper reverence for Christ.
Covenant Baptist Church practices weekly communion unless circumstances dictate otherwise. However, this would be uncharacteristic of CBC's general practice.
More information on the Lord's Supper from our Confession of Faith:
1. The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by Him the same night wherein He was betrayed, to be observed in His churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and shewing forth the sacrifice of Himself in His death,(1) confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in Him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe to Him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with Him, and with each other.(2)
Covenant Baptist Church practices weekly communion unless circumstances dictate otherwise. However, this would be uncharacteristic of CBC's general practice.
More information on the Lord's Supper from our Confession of Faith:
1. The supper of the Lord Jesus was instituted by Him the same night wherein He was betrayed, to be observed in His churches, unto the end of the world, for the perpetual remembrance, and shewing forth the sacrifice of Himself in His death,(1) confirmation of the faith of believers in all the benefits thereof, their spiritual nourishment, and growth in Him, their further engagement in, and to all duties which they owe to Him; and to be a bond and pledge of their communion with Him, and with each other.(2)
1. 1Co 11:23-26.2. In this ordinance Christ is not offered up to His Father, nor any real sacrifice made at all for remission of sin of the quick or dead, but only a memorial of that one offering up of Himself by Himself upon the cross, once for all;(3) and a spiritual oblation of all possible praise unto God for the same.(4) So that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they call it, is most abominable, injurious to Christ's own sacrifice the alone propitiation for all the sins of the elect.
2. 1Co 10:16-17,21.
3. Heb 9:25-26,28.3. The Lord Jesus hath, in this ordinance, appointed His ministers to pray, and bless the elements of bread and wine, and thereby to set them apart from a common to a holy use, and to take and break the bread; to take the cup, and, they communicating also themselves, to give both to the communicants.(5)
4. 1Co 11:24; Mt 26:26-27.
5. 1Co 11:23-26.4. The denial of the cup to the people, worshipping the elements, the lifting them up, or carrying them about for adoration, and reserving them for any pretended religious use, are all contrary to the nature of this ordinance, and to the institution of Christ.(6)
6. Mt 26:26-28; 15:9; Ex 20:4-5.5. The outward elements in this ordinance, duly set apart to the use ordained by Christ, have such relation to Him crucified, as that truly, although in terms used figuratively, they are sometimes called by the names of the things they represent, to wit, the body and blood of Christ,(7) albeit, in substance and nature, they still remain truly and only bread and wine, as they were before.(8)
7. 1Co 11:27.6. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone,(9) but even to common sense and reason, overthroweth the nature of the ordinance, and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries.(10)
8. 1Co 11:26-28.
9. Ac 3:21; Lk 24:6,39.7. Worthy receivers, outwardly partaking of the visible elements in this ordinance, do them also inwardly by faith, really and indeed, yet not carnally and corporally, but spiritually receive, and feed upon Christ crucified, and all the benefits of His death; the body and blood of Christ being then not corporally or carnally, but spiritually present to the faith of believers in that ordinance, as the elements themselves are to their outward senses.(11)
10. 1Co 11:24-25.
11. 1Co 10:16; 11:23-26.8. All ignorant and ungodly persons, as they are unfit to enjoy communion with Christ, so are they unworthy of the Lord's table, and cannot, without great sin against Him, while they remain such, partake of these holy mysteries, or be admitted thereunto;(12) yea, whosoever shall receive unworthily, are guilty of the body and blood of the Lord, eating and drinking judgment to themselves.(13)
12. 2Co 6:14-15.
13. 1Co 11:29; Mt 7:6.