Rooted in Tradition, Growing in Innovation

Vision Statement

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (I Peter 2:9-10)

To be a place where the Great Commission is live, where all of God’s people are loved, and all committed to the liberation of the people from spiritual, social, and psychological, and economic bondage.

Mission Statement

To be a called community rooted in tradition and growing in innovation that is engaged in declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a dying world, delivering the Good News via our ministries, and thus developing God-sufficient disciples, families, and communities through the power of the Holy Spirit.

“We are striving for a higher sense of what God has for us. We are radically moving disciples of Christ to the mark of the high calling.” ~ Rev. Danté R. Quick, Ph.D., Senior Pastor

The vision for First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens is based on the following guiding principles:

  • We are all born in the image and likeness of God and God is internal to us. Therefore, we should hunger and strive to move deeper into a life of the divine.
  • Without abandoning our rich past, new approaches are required to attain the higher level God has for us.
  • We want disciples to go beyond the limits of merely practicing religion and move toward a radical relationship with our Redeemer.
  • Operating in sound theology and honoring biblical traditions, our ministries will span the gamut of the needs of God’s people with the intention of helping disciples live in their divinity.
  • From conversations among single Christians to marriage ministry retreats to youth explosions, God has called FBCLG to innovate. That means we are an intergenerational community that is growing and moving boldly into its future and transforming lives as we meet the needs of God’s people in real-time.