Bethany Bible Phoenix Born Again Christians

Our History

Bethany Bible Church building has been in ministry for over 60 years in the Belleville customs. The church building began meeting in a building on Tyler Road on January 9th, 1957 with the founding Pastor, Elwood McQuaid, so relocated to its present site in 1959. It was kickoff known every bit Bethany Community Church building. Our name was afterwards changed to Bethany Baptist Church building and, in 1984, became Bethany Bible Church.

Pastor John Losen Sr. came to Bethany in February 1970. He ministered effectively with sound doctrine, grace, integrity, and vision for 30 years until his retirement in 2000. During his tenure, BBC started a Day Care Ministry in 1974, built a gymnasium in 1982, and and so built our current Day Care Heart in 1998. He served as our "Prime number Timers' Pastor" until going home to the Lord in 2018.

Pastor Ken Belch came in January, 2001 and the church continued to abound as he led Bethany through various ministry transitions. After retiring in 2007, Pastor Belch moved to Arizona where he served every bit a infirmary clergyman before once more assuming the pastorate at a church in Lake Havasu, AZ.

Pastor Don Sweeneycame in March, 2008 and continued to lead Bethany with a strong educational activity ministry and compassionate heart. Due to health bug, Pastor Sweeney resigned in the spring of 2010. In 2012, he went dwelling house to exist with the Lord. His married woman Sherry occasionally leads a Ladies Bible Study at BBC.

Pastor Duane Bonner came in August, 2010. During his tenure the church moved from the original auditorium into the gym for Dominicus Forenoon Worship to facilitate the growing number of attenders. In 2014 construction began on the new auditorium which was completed in Baronial of 2015. Pastor Bonner and his family moved to Ohio in June 2016.

Pastor Bryan Murawskicame in September, 2016.  He is a graduate of Philadelphia Biblical University (Cairn University) with a BA in Bible & Masters of Divinity as well as a PhD in Sometime Testament from Westminster Theological Seminary. He previously served at two different churches in New Jersey as youth and assistant pastor. Pastor Bryan served as Bethany'due south Senior Pastor until 2022.

Pastor Aaron Walters began in November, 2011 equally the Assistant Pastor of Youth and Developed Ministries. From 2019 through 2022, Aaron served as the Banana Pastor of Adult Ministries focusing on discipleship at Bethany. Previously he was a youth pastor in Farmington Hills, MI. He grew up in Florida and graduated with a (BA) from Moody Bible Constitute, Chicago, IL (2003) and received a Masters of Divinity from Moody Theological Seminary, Plymouth, MI (2013).

Pastor Garrett Nimmo came to Bethany in January 2019 as the Director of Youth and Family Ministries. Garret was ordained in March 2021 as the Banana Pastor of Youth and Family Ministries and served in that role until 2022. Earlier accepting the position at Bethany he served as the student minister at Macomb Christian Church building in Shelby Township, MI. He graduated from Cornerstone University in May of 2017 with a degree in Biblical Studies.

Our Beliefs

We are an independent, non-denominational, evangelical, lath-governed body.

We are affiliated (via membership) with the Independent Fundamental Churches of America (IFCA).

THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Former and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Discussion of God, the final authorization for faith and life, inerrant in the original writing, infallible and God-breathed. (2 Tim. 3:xvi, 17,; 2 Peter ane:xx, 21; Matt. five:xviii; John 16:12,13)

THE GODHEAD

We believe in 1 Triune God, eternally existing in three persons– Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — co-eternal in existence, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deut. vi:4; ii Cor. 13:14)

THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived past the Holy Spirit and built-in of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men (John 1:1, 2,14; Luke one:35)

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ achieved our redemption through His death on the cantankerous every bit a representative, vicarious, substitutionary, sacrifice; and, that our justification is made sure by His literal, concrete resurrection from the dead (Rom. 3:24, 25; I Peter 2:24; Eph. 1:seven; I Peter 1:three-5)

Nosotros believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, and is at present exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry building of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Acts 1:9, 19; Heb. 9:24; 7:25; Rom. 8:34; I John two:one,ii)

THE PERSON AND Piece of work OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the globe of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:eight-11; 2 Cor 3:6; I Cor. 12:12-14; Rom. 8:nine; Eph. one:13,xiv)

We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who guides believers into all truth; and, that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to exist filled with the Spirit (John 16:xiii; I John two:twenty, 27; Eph. 5:18)

Cosmos

All things in the universe were created and made by God in the six literal days of the creation calendar week described in Genesis one:ane through ii:iii and confirmed in Exodus 20:8-11.The creation record is factual, historical, and perspicuous or distinct;thus all theories of origins or development which involve evolution in any form are faux. All things which now exist are sustained and ordered by God's providential care.

THE TOTAL DEPRAVITY OF Man

We believe that man was created in the paradigm and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that human being is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost status (Gen. one:26, 27; Rom. 3:22, 23; 5:12; Eph. 2:1-3; 12)

Conservancy

We believe that salvation is the souvenir of God brought to Man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. (Eph. two:8-10; John one:12; Eph. i:vii; I Peter i:18,19)

THE ETERNAL SECURITY AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS

We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever (John 6:37-xl; 10:27-xxx; Rom. 8:ane, 38, 39; I Cor. 1:4-8; I Peter 1:5)

Nosotros believe that information technology is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the testimony of God's Word; which, still, clearly forbids the apply of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh (Rom. 13:thirteen, 14; Gal. 5:13; Titus ii:11-fifteen)

THE 2 NATURES OF THE BELIEVER

Nosotros believe that every saved person possesses two natures, with provision made for the victory of the new nature over the old nature through the ability of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and, that all claims to the eradication of the old nature in this life are unscriptural. (Rom. 6:thirteen; viii:12, xiii; Gal. five:16-25; Eph. 4:22-24; Col. three:x; I Peter i:14-sixteen; I John 3:5-9)

SEPARATION

Nosotros believe that all the saved should live in such a mode every bit not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from religious betrayment, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is allowable of God. (ii Tim iii:1-5; Rom. 12:i,2; 14:xiii; I John 2:xv-17; two John 9-eleven; 2 Cor. vi:xiv-7:one)

MISSIONS

We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and past word to the truths of Holy Scripture and to seek to proclaim the Gospel to all mankind. (Marking 16:xv; Acts one:eight; 2 Cor. 5:19,xx)

THE MINISTRY AND SPIRITUAL GIFTS

Nosotros believe that God is sovereign in the bestowment of all His gifts; and that the gifts of evangelists, pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today; and, that speaking in tongues and the working of sign miracles gradually ceased as the New Attestation Scriptures were completed and their say-so became established. (I Cor. 12:iv-11; 2 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 4:7-12)

Nosotros believe that God does hear and reply the prayer of organized religion, in accord with His ain will, for the sick and afflicted (John 15:seven; I John 5:14, fifteen)

THE Church

We believe that the Church building, which is the body and espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this nowadays historic period.(Eph. 1:22, 23; five:25-27; Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. xi:two)

Nosotros believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in the New Testament Scriptures (Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32;I Tim. 3:1-3; Titus i:v-11)

Nosotros believe in the autonomy of the local church building, complimentary of any external authority or control (Acts 13:one-four; xv:xix-31; 20:28; Rom. 16:ane,4; I Cor. 3:nine-16; 5:4-7, 13;I Peter 5:one-4)

We recognize the ordinances of h2o baptism and the Lord'southward Supper every bit a scriptural means of testimony for the church in this age. (Matt. 28:nineteen, twenty; Acts 2:41, 42; xviii:8; I Cor. 11:23-26)

DISPENSATIONALISM

We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life, which define human's esponsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are non ways of salvation, just rather divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these — the age of law, the age of the Church building, and the historic period of the millennial kingdom –are the subjects of detailed revelation in scripture (John i:17; I Cor. 9:17; Ii Cor. 3:9-18; Gal. 3:13-25; Eph. 1:ten; 3:two-x; Col. one:24,24; Heb. 7:19; Rev. twenty:2-six)

THE PERSONALITY OF SATAN

We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the autumn; that he is the open and declared enemy of God and human; and, that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Burn. (Job 1:6,7; Isa. 14:12-17; Matt. iv:2-11; 25:41; Rev. 20:10)

THE 2d Appearance OF CHRIST

We believe in the "Blessed Hope", the personal, imminent, pre-tribulation and pre-millennial coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for His redeemed ones; and in His subsequent return to world, with his saints, to establish His Millennial Kingdom. (I Thess. 4:13-18; Zech. xiv:iv-xi; Rev. 19:xi-xvi; twenty:ane-6; I Thess. one:10; 5:ix; Rev. iii:ten)

THE ETERNAL STATE

Nosotros believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matt. 25:46; John 5:28,29; eleven:25, 26; Rev. 20:five,half dozen,12,13)

We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at expiry, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in witting bliss they await the beginning resurrection, when spirit, soul and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord. (Luke 23:43; Rev. 20:4-half dozen; 2 Cor. 5:viii; Phil. 1:23; iii:21; I Thess. 4:xvi,17)

We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain later on death, in conscious misery until the second resurrection, when, with soul and body reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be bandage into the Lake of Fire, not to exist annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious punishment. (Luke 16:nineteen-26; Matt. 25:41-46; 2 Thess. one:7-9; Jude 6,7; Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 20:11-15)

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