Located in the Heart of Northwest Arkansas
We believe the church will see its greatest influence in being servants for the community. This includes engaging the community in regular acts of kindness. We are committed to strengthening churches, supporting missionaries, and serving through local and international missions.
Our Mission
Our church’s mission is simple; lost and unchurched people matter to a compassionate God and therefore matter to us. We believe that God is to be shared with everyone. By working together, we can share the love of Jesus in Bentonville, Arkansas, and influence our neighbors and the nations with the good news of Jesus.
Our Values
WE BELIEVE
lost and unchurched people matter to a compassionate God; therefore, people matter to us.
WE BELIEVE
the church should utilize every available means to reach a city, the nation, and the world.
WE BELIEVE
the church will see its greatest influence in being servants to the community. This includes engaging the community through acts of kindness regularly.
WE BELIEVE
that the church should be a unified community serving God and others by stewarding the use of their spiritual gifts. This includes the belief that every Christ Follower is uniquely gifted by God and vital to the health and effectiveness of Christ’s body.
WE BELIEVE
that the goal of every Christ Follower should be maturity and ministry, therefore full devotion to God is normal for every believer. This includes the concept of discipleship, accountability, and service.
WE BELIEVE
that every expression and ministry of the church must be done with authenticity, intentionality, excellence, and integrity. This includes the concept of evaluation, review, and passion.
Core Beliefs
The following are the core beliefs of FBC Bentonville based on the foundational truths taught in the bible. All of our teaching and ministry is rooted in and flows out of these biblical doctrines.
About God
God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus), and Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God.
About The Father
He is all powerful, all knowing, all loving, and all wise. He reigns with providential care over the universe and the flow of human history goes according to His purpose and plan.
About Jesus
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus has eternally existed and became man at His incarnation. He lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all people by dying on a cross. He bodily arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven’s glory and will return again someday to earth to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lord’s.
About The Holy Spirit
He is the third person of the Trinity. He guides men into all truth, exalts Christ, convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment, cultivates Christian character, comforts believers, bestows spiritual gifts by which believers serve God and seals the believer unto the day of final redemption. His presence in the lives of believers is the assurance of God to bring us into the fullness of the stature of Christ.
About The Scriptures
The Bible is God’s Word to us. It was written by human authors, under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and living. Because it is inspired by God, it has salvation for its end and is truth without any mixture of error.
About Human Beings
People are made in the image of God and are the supreme object of God’s creation. All of us are marred by an attitude of disobedience toward God called sin. Sin separates people from God and causes many problems in life.
About Salvation
Salvation is God’s free gift to us, but we must trust in Christ sacrifice for us. We can never make up for our sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting Jesus Christ as God’s offer of forgiveness can anyone be saved from sin’s penalty. When we turn from our self-ruled life and turn to Jesus in faith we are saved. Eternal life begins the moment one received Jesus Christ into his life by faith.
About Eternal Security
Because God gives us eternal life through Jesus Christ, the true believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. If you have been genuinely saved, you cannot “lose” your salvation. Salvation is maintained by the grace and the power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives us this security.
About Eternity
People were created to exist forever. We will either exist eternally separated from God by sin or eternally with God through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are real places of eternal existence.
About Baptism
We believe that spiritual baptism must be: (1) by being completely immersed under the water and (2) after salvation. Jesus was immersed and all baptisms in the New Testament were by immersion. These two facts set the standard for baptism today. Baptism has no saving power, but it is the first act of obedience symbolizing (1) the believer’s faith in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, (2) the believer’s death to sin and the resurrection to walk anew in Christ and (3) the Christian’s belief that he will die, be buried, and that Jesus will resurrect him from the dead.
About The Lord's Supper
The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby believers remember the death of the Lord Jesus and anticipate His second coming. The bread is symbolic of His body and the juice represents His blood.
About Evangelism
It is the duty of every Christ Follower and of every church to endeavor to make disciples of all men everywhere. It is the command of Christ for every believer to seek constantly to win the lost to Christ by personal effort and by all other methods in harmony with the gospel of Christ.
About Christian Unity
To live in harmony with other believers is clearly the teaching of the New Testament. It is the responsibility of each believer to endeavor to live in fellowship with each member of the congregation. It is further the responsibility of each member to bring all gossiping and backbiting to an end.