First Baptist Church | Coleman, FL

We hold to the absolute authority of Scripture, the centrality of God, the primacy of preaching, the sovereignty of grace, and God exalting worship in spirit and truth. We are a doctrinally conservative congregation that holds to a reformed understanding of the Scripture in a Baptistic tradition. The term "reformed" comes from the period of church history called "The Reformation", when important Biblical truths were recovered and reemphasized, truths that we embrace to this day. Among the truths recovered during the reformation are the "Sola's". These are "sola scriptura" ("scripture alone" as the authority for life and practice in the church), "sola gratia" (God's sovereign "grace alone" as the reason for our salvation without any actual or potential human merit), "sola fide" (justification by "faith alone" and no human works), "solus Christus" (salvation through the Person and work of Jesus "Christ alone"), "soli Deo gloria" (all things ultimately for "the glory of God alone"). At FBC Coleman, we adhere to the Second London Baptist Confession (1689). We find further agreement with the Canons of Dordt, the Ligonier Statement on Christology, the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, and the the Nashville Statement on Human Sexuality. We are associated with the Southern Baptist Convention and Founders' Ministries.