Welcome!
Catherine Lake Baptist Church is a theologically reformed church holding to the Christ-exalting truths rediscovered in the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation. We welcome people to no longer live like sheep without a Shepherd, and to come and joyfully hear God’s Son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, through the preaching of his Word for their soul’s contentment with him, and their confidence to bring a knowledge of God’s beauty and holiness into every sphere of life—individual, family, church, school, business, social, and civil.
2064 Catherine Lake Road
Richlands, North Carolina 28574
Telephone: (910) 518-5816
info@catherinelakebaptist.com
Visit With Us! Sundays at 10am & 6pm
Get To Know
Our Pastor
Rev. Brian J. Mann has been ministering the gospel for over 23 years. His ordination charge was to be a faithful shepherd who feeds the sheep, finds them, flees from sin, and focuses on the Savior. His education and ministry philosophy is characterized by Ezekiel 17:23–24 which speaks of the sure hope of God’s kingdom filling the earth as a “noble cedar” for all kinds of people to find their pleasure in God’s Son. Brian has been serving as pastor at Catherine Lake for the past 15 years. William Still said, “The pastor by definition is a shepherd, the under-shepherd of the flock of God. His primary task is to feed the flock by leading them to green pastures.” Brian and his wife of 27 years, Sherry, and their three daughters, enjoy learning God’s Word together and telling of God’s wondrous deeds and his thoughts toward us, though they are more than can be told! (Psalm 40:5).
Our Beliefs
As Evangelicals, we believe the Word of God is the only authority for faith and practice. As Reformed catholics (belief in the universal church), we affirm the historic creeds which were also affirmed by the Sixteenth Century Protestant Reformers—The Apostles’, Nicene, Athanasian Creeds, and Chalcedonian Definition. As Baptists, we affirm the Second London Baptist Confession. C.H. Spurgeon said “It is not issued as an authoritative rule or code of faith, whereby you may be fettered, but as a means of edification in righteousness. It is an excellent, though not inspired, expression of the teaching of those Holy Scriptures by which all confessions are to be measured.” Eschatologically we tend toward a postmillennial worldview with a positive view of God’s law applied to every sphere of life. Principally, Philippians 2:1–11 is our governing verse.
Our Covenant
Building upon the Word of God as the only authority for faith and practice, we testify that God’s Sovereignty and Grace has placed us in this body for the purpose of Christian communion, discipleship, and the spread of His Glorious Kingdom. Therefore, as covenant members we promise to:
LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ supremely, and to love one another, and to Endure suffering together with HOPE, and to ensure TRUTHful teaching takes place in our church, making it a healthy place for God’s children, and to Pursue HOLINESS in our hearts, minds, and actions both inside and outside the church, and to remain Alive in our WITNESS in the world by being empowered by our WATCHFULNESS in prayer to God, and IN ALL these THINGS, and in all of life, and in all we attempt to do in this church for God’s Glory, may we Never let go of a GOD-CENTERED GOSPEL, and TRUST the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.