What is the goal, what is the mission of the West-Ark congregation in the Fort Smith area?
• Is our goal as a congregation to lead other religious people in Fort Smith to biblical agreement on specific salvation and worship questions? • For example, is our goal, is our mission to seek agreement on: • The importance of baptism by immersion in accepting salvation? • The importance of taking communion every Sunday? • The importance of singing without musical instruments in worship? • The importance of complete independence for every congregation? • Can we define our goal and our mission as a church, in the terms of baptism, communion, singing, and congregational independence? • Please, please do not misunderstand my question. • I fully agree that the New Testament clearly reveals that baptism by burial in water is part of the salvation response of people who become Christians. • I fully agree that the New Testament teaches that baptism is for the remission of sins, that it does place one in Christ, and that it is involved in the process of God adding the person to the church. •
