Who We Are
Lake Springs Church has a long and short history. It’s complicated.
In 1822 Holly Springs Baptist Church was established in downtown Holly Springs, NC. That church held true to its name and roots for nearly 200 years. In 2019 after much deliberation the dwindling congregation that remained thought it in the best interest of the church and Kingdom to merge with a younger fast-growing church. The name of that church was Point Church of the Triangle.
Point Church was deemed as one of the fastest growing churches in America by outreach magazine in 2017 and 2018. Point church was made up of 15 campus locations all across the triangle region of NC. However, in January of 2022, the leadership at Point Church announced that God had laid a new vision on their hearts. Their new vision was to release the majority of their campuses to be independent autonomous churches.
In 2022, we became Lake Springs Church. As we said, we have a short and long history.
Lake Springs would not be here today without the sacrifice of commitment and sacrifice of both Holly Springs Baptist Church and Point Church. We are forever grateful that we have had a chance to work with both of these churches.
Be with Jesus. Become like Jesus. Do what Jesus did.
At Lake Springs, our mission is to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what Jesus did. Our focus is first and foremost to have an abiding relationship with Jesus ourselves. Next, we desire to be formed in the likeness of Christ. Finally, we want to live our lives in the way that Jesus lived.
In Holly Springs as it is in Heaven
We envision a church that is shaped by the Sermon on the Mount. A church that embodies the character, compassion, and Kingdom of Jesus right where we live. Our desire is that Holly Springs would experience a foretaste of heaven through Lake Springs.
As we follow the way of Jesus together, we seek to become a pocket of the kingdom here in Holly Springs. We desire to practice the following ways of living to show the Kingdom to Holly Springs. We don't practice these ways of living by our own efforts, but through prayerful empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
The Jesus Way of Living
We embrace the Kingdom characteristic of humility as the defining traits of Jesus’ people.
We value the impact and diversity of the Kingdom. We seek to reflect Jesus in visible, tangible ways that bring hope and light into dark places. We believe that the Kingdom of God is open and available to all people.
We practice radical reconciliation. We pursue restored relationships, forgiveness, and peace, celebrating the diverse people God brings together into one Kingdom family.
We value a life rooted in integrity. We honor others by practicing purity, faithfulness, honesty, and dignity in every interaction.
We value radical love and mercy. We choose compassion over retaliation, praying for those who oppose us and loving others without condition.
We focus everything on Christ, rather than ourselves. We give, pray, and fast for God’s pleasure rather than public recognition, forming hearts that seek Him above all. Everything we do is about the Kingdom of God, not about Lake Springs Church.
We pursue unhurried, uncluttered lives centered on God’s Kingdom, free from anxiety and grounded in the Father’s care.
We value self examination and growth into maturity. We focus where we need to grow before where others need to grow.
We remain humble, receptive, and open to God’s wisdom, continually asking, seeking, and knocking as learners of Jesus.
We build our lives on Jesus' words. We put His teaching into practice every day, becoming a resilient Kingdom people who stand firm in every season.
Our Beliefs
St. Augustine offers a helpful statement on any church’s shared beliefs, “In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In everything, love.”
Essential Beliefs
There is only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, who is the Creator, Ruler, Preserver, and Redeemer of the universe. God is loving, Holy, perfect, and is without a beginning or cause. God is all powerful and all knowing. God reveals Himself to us in three persons as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; each has distinct personal attributes, but has the same nature and essence.
Genesis 1:1; Exodus 3:14; Deuteronomy 6:4; Psalm 19:1-3; Mark 1:9-11; John 4:24; 5:26; 14:6-13; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:15.
The Holy Bible is divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It has God as the author and the Bible's main purpose is human salvation because God desires to have a personal relationship with every human being. Because it is Divinely inspired; all Scripture is inerrant, true and trustworthy. It reveals how much God loves us, how God judges us, and is the standard by which all human conduct, creeds, and religious opinions should be measured. All Scripture is a testimony to Christ, who is the focus of divine revelation.
Exodus 24:4; Deuteronomy 4:1-2; 119:11,89,105; Isaiah 40:8; Matthew 5:17-18; John 5:39; Romans 16:25-26; 2 Timothy 3:15-17; Hebrews 1:1-2; 4:12; 1 Peter 1:25; 2 Peter 1:19-21.
Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created male and female as the crowning achievement of His creation. Therefore, every person of every ethnic origin is worthy of dignity, respect and Christian love.
Genesis 1:26-30; 2:7,18-22; Psalms 8:3-6; Romans 8:14-18; 1 Corinthians 6:13.
In the beginning, man was innocent of sin (disobeying God's instructions) and was endowed by his Creator with the freedom of choice. By his free choice, man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Man disobeyed the command of God through the temptation of Satan, and fell from his original innocence. As a result, all people inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin. Therefore, as soon as humans are capable of moral action, they become sinners. Only the grace of God can bring man into fellowship with Him through faith in the sacrificial death of Jesus and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God.
Genesis 3; Isaiah 6:5; Romans 1:19-32; 3:10-18,23; 5:12,19; 8:14-18; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22; Ephesians 2:1-22; Colossians 1:21-22.IV.
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. By His own blood, Jesus Christ obtained eternal redemption for the believer. Repentance, a genuine turning away from sin toward God, must occur as a part of salvation. There is no salvation apart from personal faith in Jesus Christ as Lord. Faith is the acceptance of Jesus Christ and commitment of the entire person to Him as Lord and Savior.
Genesis 3:15; Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:68-69; John 1:29; 3:16-17; 10:28-29; 14:6; Acts 2:21; Romans 1:16-18; 2:8-10; 1 Timothy 1:15; Revelation 3:20.
Human beings were created for an eternal existence and will exist forever either in God's presence or apart from God. God's eternal presence will ultimately be in the New Heaven and New Earth (Heaven). Those who are redeemed by Jesus, the Angels and God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) will be in Heaven. Those who are not redeemed and any beings who have opposed God (Angels who chose to rebel + Satan) will be cast out of God's presence forever into Hell. Being cast into Hell is referred to as a second death. Heaven and Hell are real places and will exist forever.
Titus 3:4-7,Matthew 13:41-42, Matthew 25:41-46, Mark 9:43, Luke 16:19-31, John 14:1-6, Revelation 21:1-8
A New Testament church of the Lord Jesus Christ is an autonomous local congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. The church observes the two ordinances of Christ (Baptism and the Lord's Supper), governed by His laws, exercises the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeks to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. Each congregation operates under the Lordship of Christ. In such a congregation, each member is responsible and accountable to Christ as Lord. Its two scriptural offices are that of pastor/elder/overseer and deacon. While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the office of pastor/elder/overseer is limited to men as qualified by Scripture.
The New Testament speaks also of the church as the Body of Christ which includes all of the redeemed of all the ages, believers from every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.
Matthew 18:20; Acts 2:41-42;14:23,27; 15:1-30; 16:5; 20:28; Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:19-22; 3:8-11,21; Colossians 1:18; 21:2-3.
Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. It is an act of obedience symbolizing the believer’s faith in a crucified, buried, and risen Savior, the believer’s death to sin, the burial of the old life, and the resurrection to walk in newness of life in Jesus Christ. It is a testimony to the believer's faith in the final resurrection of the dead. Baptism is a prerequisite to the privileges of church membership and to the Lord’s Supper.
The Lord’s Supper is a symbolic act of obedience whereby members of the church, through partaking of the bread and the fruit of the vine, memorialize the death of Jesus and anticipate His second coming.
Matthew 3:13-17; 26:26-30; 28:19-20; Mark 1:9-11; 14:22-26; Luke 3:21-22; 22:19-20; Acts 2:41-42; 8:35-39; 16:30-33; Romans 6:3-5; 1 Corinthians 10:16; 11:23-26; Colossians 2:12.
The Kingdom of God includes both His general sovereignty over the universe and His particular kingship over men who willfully acknowledge Him as King. The Kingdom can be viewed as the realm of salvation into which men enter by trusting, childlike commitment to Jesus Christ. Christians are commanded to pray and to labor that the Kingdom may come and God’s will be done on earth. The complete fulfillment of God's Kingdom awaits the return of Jesus Christ and the end of this age.
Jeremiah 23:5-6; Matthew 3:2; 4:23; 26:29; Luke 4:43; 23:42; John 3:3; 18:36; 1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Colossians 1:13; Hebrews 12:28; 1 Peter 2:4-10; Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 11:15.
Critical Beliefs
God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption.
Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in a covenant commitment for a lifetime. It is God’s unique gift to reveal the union between Christ and His church and to provide for the man and the woman in marriage the framework for intimate companionship, the channel of sexual expression according to biblical standards, and the means for procreation of the human race.
The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in managing the household and nurturing the next generation.
Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; Exodus 20:12; Mark 10:6-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; Colossians 3:18-19; Titus 2:3-5; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7.
Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and gift from the Lord. Parents are to demonstrate to their children God’s pattern for marriage. Parents are to teach their children spiritual and moral values and to lead them, through consistent lifestyle examples and loving discipline, to make choices based on biblical truth. Children are to honor and obey their parents.
Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-7; Psalms 127:3; Psalms 139:13-16; Matthew 18:2-5; Ephesians 6:1-4
God alone is Lord of the conscience, and He has left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are contrary to His Word or not contained in it.
Matthew 6:6-7,24; 16:26; John 8:36; Romans 13:1-7; Galatians 5:1,13; Philippians 3:20; 1 Peter 2:12-17.
All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. Means and methods used for the improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among men can be truly and permanently helpful only when they are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ. In the spirit of Christ, Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. Christians should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick. Christians should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love. In order to promote these ends. Christians should be ready to work for any good cause, always being careful to act in the spirit of love without compromising their loyalty to Christ and His truth as communicated by Scripture and the Holy Spirit.
Exodus 20:3-17; Deuteronomy 10:12; Micah 6:8; Matthew 5:13-16,43-48; 22:36-40; 25:35; Luke 10:27-37; Romans 12–14; Colossians 3:12-17; James 1:27.