3840 Riner Rd. Riner, VA 24149
Auburn Baptist Church
SERVICE SCHEDULE
Sunday Morning:
Sunday School 10:00am
Worship Service 11:00am
Sunday Evening 6:00pm
Wednesday Bible Study/Youth Group 7:00pm
Service Recordings available
on our podcast:
"Auburn Baptist Church Sermons"
Events
Adult Ministries
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
Young Married Couples, Overcomers, Seniors, Proverbs 31 (adult ladies)
CHAMPIONS MINISTRY
This group of senior adults enjoy monthly outings together to various points of interest through the New River Valley.
ADULT CHOIR
This group of dedicated servants practice each Sunday evening at 5:00PM and provide special music each week in our Sunday Services and also present various cantatas at special times of the year.
PRAYER GROUPS
Men and women groups meet separately each Sunday evening at 5:30PM to pray for the special requests within our church family and community.
BUS MINISTRY
Sunday mornings we run buses in the community to bring children to Sunday School and worship service.
LADIES OF JOY
Ladies meet monthly on a Saturday morning at 9am for a time of fellowship and Bible study.
Kid's Ministries
Sunday School: 10:00am Sunday Mornings
We provide age appropriate classes beginning with the Nursery through Teens
Children's Worship: 11:00am Sunday Mornings
Nursery: Newborn - 3 yrs.
Primary Church: 3-5 yrs.
Junior Church: 6- 11 yrs.
Sunday Evening 6:00pm
Nursery: Newborn - 3 yrs.
4 - 7 y/o class
Wednesday Nights: 7:00pm
Nursery: Newborn - 3 yrs.
4 - 7 y/o class
8 - 12 y/o class
Youth Group: 13-18 yrs.
Staff & Leadership
Shake Smith: Pastor
Shake Smith was called to be the Pastor of Auburn Baptist Church in 2003. Prior to that he was a Youth Pastor for twenty years. He and his wife, Kim, were married in 1979. They have been blessed with three married sons and seven grandchildren.
Austin Peyton:
Assistant Pastor
Austin Peyton surrendered to the call to ministry in 2013. He served as a youth pastor at a church in West Virginia before serving here at Auburn Baptist Church. He and his wife, Melody, married in 2020 and were blessed with their first child, Henry, in 2022.
Allen Worrell:
Staff Assistant
Allen is a humble servant of God and faithful helper in the mission of ABC.
Our Purpose
Our mission is to reach our community and the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ and disciple believers to become like Him.
As a church family we worship Him, edifying and encouraging one another to love God supremely and to love each other as He has loved us.
Outreach
Local Evangelism
Youth Events
Weekly Bus Ministry
Community Events
World-Wide Missionary Family
Main Goals
Share God's Plan of Salvation
Baptize and Teach Believers
Be Conformed to the Image of Christ
Identify and Utilize our Spiritual Gifts
Strengthen Christian Families
Make a Difference by Sharing the Love of Jesus
Our Beliefs
THE GODHEAD
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4;
II Corinthians 13:14).
THE SCRIPTURES
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Bible, as it is in truth, the Word of God... (I Thessalonians 2:13). We believe in verbal, plenary inspiration in the original writings, and God's preservation of His pure words to every generation (II Timothy 3:16, Psalms 12:6-8). We believe the King James Version of the Bible to be the preserved Word of God for English speaking people. The Bible is our sole authority for faith and practice.
THE PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
THE PERSON AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men (John 1:1-2, 14; Luke 1:35; Isaiah 9:6; 7:14; Philippians 2:5-8; Galatians 4:4-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His finished work on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7; I Peter 1:3-5).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24, 7:25; Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the Person who reproves the world 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 16:8-11; II Corinthians 3:6; I Corinthians 12:12-14; Romans 8:9; Ephesians 1:13-14).
We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing, were temporary. We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit and that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection, though God frequently chooses to answer the prayer of believers for physical healing (II Corinthians 12:12; I Corinthians 13:8; Hebrews 2:3-4; Mark 16:17-20; I Corinthians 1:22, 14:21-22).
MAN
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell, inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved, and, of himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 12).
The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image and is mindful of him, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every individual possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love. (Psalm 8:4-9; Colossians 3:9-11).
THE WAY OF SALVATION
We believe that the clear message of salvation is “repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 20:21). We believe that salvation is "by grace" plus nothing minus nothing. We believe that men are justified by faith alone and are accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8-10; John 1:12; I Peter 1:18-19)
We believe that all the redeemed, once saved are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ forever. We believe that eternal life is the present possession of every believer (John 6:37-40, 10:27-30; Romans 8:1, 38-39;
I Corinthians 1:4-8; I Peter 1:4-5; Jude 1, 2).
We believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism made up of all born-again persons of this present age which began with Christ and the Apostles, was empowered at Pentecost, and will be caught up to be with Christ at the Rapture (Ephesians 1:22-23, 5:25-27;
I Corinthians 12:12-14; II Corinthians 11:2).
We 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 Timothy 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).
We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control (Acts 13:1-4, 15:19-31, 20:28; Romans 16:1, 4;
I Corinthians 3:9, 16, 5:4-7, 13; I Peter 5:1-4).
THE CHURCH
BIBLICAL SEPARATION
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and associations is commanded of God (II Timothy 3:1-5; Romans 12:1, 2, 14:13; I John 2:15-17; II John 9-11;
II Corinthians 6:14-7:1).
OUR ETERNAL STATE
We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46; John 5:28, 29, 11:25-26; Revelation 20:5-6, 12-13).
We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord (Luke 23:43; Revelation 20:4-6;
II Corinthians 5:8; Philippians 1:23, 3:21;
I Thessalonians 4:16-17).
We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after 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 cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting, conscious punishment (Luke 16:19-26; Matthew 25:41-46; II Thessalonians 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Mark 9:43-48; Revelation 20:11-15).
We recognize the ordinances of baptism by immersion in water and the Lord's Supper as a Scriptural means of testimony for the Church in this age (Matthew. 28:19-20; Acts 2:41-42, 18:18; I Corinthians 11:23-26).
THE ORDINANCES
OF THE CHURCH
THE RETURN OF CHRIST
We believe the "Blessed Hope" of our Lord's return is literal, personal, visible, imminent, premillennial, and pretribulational. He will rapture His Church prior to the seven years of tribulation, and at the end of the tribulation Christ will return with His saints to establish His thousand-year reign on the earth. (I Thessalonians 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; I Thessalonians 1:10; Revelation 3:10; Zechariah 14:4-11; Revelation 19:11-16, 20:1-6; Psalm 89:3-4)