Baptist Church Planting West
A ministry of Moab Baptist Church, this historic organization is actively involved in traveling summer pastoral internships in the Mountain West, as well as working to revitalize existing local churches.
About Us
Moab Baptist is an unaffiliated fellowship of born-again baptized believers that seeks to exalt Christ, exhibit Christlikeness, expand outreach, and exhort believers.
Our History
Beginning as a Bible study in the 1970's, and organized into a church on May 17, 1980, Moab Baptist Church continues to be a soulwinning church seeking to reach our area for the cause of Christ. In addition to regular services on Sunday morning and evening, we also have year-round Sunday School for all ages, a Wednesday Bible Study, and ministries for children, teenagers, and adult men and women.
Since its founding, our church has had six pastors - Ed Butler, Paul Chappell, John Crater, David Halcomb, Roy O'Quinn, and Cole Howe.
Moab is the county seat of Grand County, Utah, with a population of less than 6,000 year-around-residents, while the combined city and county's population (namely Spanish Valley) is around 10,000.
Moab and the surrounding area are the destinations for outdoor enthusiasts, and we have become known as the Mountain Bike Capital of the World. Whether a person enjoys hunting, fishing, rock climbing, four-wheeling, mountain biking, hiking, BASE jumping, sight-seeing, photography, or rafting they will find a lot to do here.
The LaSal Mountains rise to almost 13,000 feet and provide a great backdrop against the red cliffs which surround Moab. The Colorado River runs just north of the city limits. Canyonlands and Arches National Parks (just two of Utah's "Mighty Five" national parks), Dead Horse Point State Park, Lions Back, and the famous Slickrock Bike Trail are in the immediate area. Mesa Verde National Park, Lake Powell, Monument Valley, Hovenweep National Monument and the Colorado National Monument are within a couple hours drive from Moab.
Reaching Moab and the World with the Gospel of Christ!
We seek to partner with church planters and organizations that assist in this endeavor, whether it is in Utah or around the world.
Missions
Moab Baptist supports several missionary families, organizations, and institutions
What We Believe
Moab Baptist holds these statements with absolute conviction, without compromise or wavering.
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.
We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the preserved, verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.
We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, redeemed, reconciled and renewed.
We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel's promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate, preparing a place for believers and with the promise to return for His own.
We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death - that was sacrificial, substitutionary, sufficient, and satisfactory - and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its sin. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, comforts, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.
We believe that the Lord Jesus founded the church when He called His twelve disciples and that it was empowered by the Holy Ghost on the Day of Pentecost. We believe that born-again believers, those that have been justified by God's grace through faith alone in Christ alone, comprise the bride of Christ, and that the local church is solely made up of born-again and baptized persons. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Head and Builder of His church. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
We believe that God's justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.
We believe in the personal, literal, bodily, glorious and imminent return of our Lord Jesus Christ, first in the air with the rapture of believers prior to the Tribulation, then with His personal and visible coming to this earth with His saints, heralding the end of the Tribulation and the beginning of His Millennial and Messianic Kingdom. This is at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace.
The gospel is the good news that Jesus Christ died for our sins, and was buried in a borrowed tomb, and rose three days later in victory over sin and the grave.