Church Profile
Service Times
Sunday School 10:00 am
Sunday Morning 11:00 am
Sunday Evening 6:00 pm
Wednesday night Bible Study and Prayer Meeting 7:00 pm
(864) 270-8563
Pastor Mike Miller
Our Mission
A small church with a BIG heart for missions!
Missions. We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim
the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every
nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. As ambassadors of Christ, we must use all available means to go to the
foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us. (Matt 28: 19-20; Mark 16:
15; Luke 24: 46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor 5:20).
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About Lighthouse Baptist Church
Located just a few miles from beautiful Lake Robinson in Northern Greenville County, Lighthouse Baptist Church was originally organized in the 1960s under the name of Mountain View Baptist Church. Located at 6301 Mountain View Road in Taylors, SC, the Church was originally part of the Southern Baptist Convention when first organized. It withdrew from the Convention in 1997, and was re-named as Lighthouse Baptist Church.
Since then, it has remained a beacon of light in the northern part of Greenville County, SC. It is the desire of the present Church membership to honor and obey our Lord in all we do, and to obey the Scriptures. In seeking the Lord's will for a Pastor, on December 3, 2023, our Church called Bro. Mike Miller to be our Pastor, with 100% vote! Bro. Miller has many, many years of Pastoring, having pastored two local churches in the area. He is a STRONG expository preacher, using only the King James version to preach and teach solid Biblical application for Christian living. He is a student of the Word of God!! He strongly agrees with our stand on the Pre-millennial, Pre-Tribulation rapture of the Church, and is a strong dispensationalist.
We are very mission-minded, currently supporting 12 missionaries at home and abroad. While we are small in number (less than 100), we have a big heart towards others and toward our Lord Jesus Christ. We are Independent, dispensational, pre-trib, pre-milllennial, KJV and traditional in both our worship and our music. We welcome anyone with a heart for the Lord to come visit us at any of our services as listed under the Service times.
Denomination / Affiliation:
Baptist- Independent
BELIEFS
(A) The Holy Scriptures. We believe the Old and New Testament Scriptures are the
verbally and plenarily inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible and God-breathed and are, therefore, the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man. The Scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning, and all issues of interpretation and meaning shall be determined by the Church. (1 John 2:20, 27). The King James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only translation used by the Church (2 Tim 3:16-17; 2 Pet. 1:20-21).
(B) Dispensationalism. We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined dispensation or rules of life that define man’s
responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations---the law, the church, and the kingdom---are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture. (Gen 1:28; 1 Cor. 9:17; 2 Cor. 3:9-18; Gal. 3:13-25; Eph. 1:10; 3:2-10; Col. 1:24-35, 27; Rev. 20:2-6)
(C) The Godhead. We believe in one triune God, eternally existing in three persons---
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit---each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature,
co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections. (Deut.
6:4; Matt. 28:19; John 14:10, 26; 2 Cor. 13:14)
(D) The Person and Work of Christ.
(1) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man,
without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born
of the virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men.
(Isa. 7:14; 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14; 2 Cor. 5:19-21; Gal 4:4-5; Phil 2:5-8)
(2) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through His
death on the cross and shed blood, as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary
sacrifice, and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resur-
rection from the dead. (Acts 2:18-36; Romans 3:24-25; Eph. 1:7; Heb. 9:22;
1 Pet. 1:3-5; 1 Pet 2:24).
(3) We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven and is now exalted at
the right hand of God where, as our High Priest, He fulfills the ministry of
Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate. (Acts 1:9-10; Rom. 8:34; Heb 7:25;
Hebr 9:24; 1 John 2:1-2).
(E) The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit.
(1) We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of
righteousness, and of judgment; and, that He is the Supernatural Agent in
regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ, indwelling and
sealing them unto the day of redemption. (John 16:8-11; Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:
12-14; 2 Cor. 3:6; Eph. 1:13-14).
(2) We believe that He is the divine Teacher who assists believers to understand
and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the
saved to be filled with the Spirit. (Eph. 1:17-18; 5:18; 1 John 2:20-27).
(3) We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every
believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors, and teachers to equip
believers in the church to do the work of the ministry. (Rom. 12:3-8; 1 Cor. 12:
4-11, 28; Eph 4:7-12).
(4) We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues
and the gift of healing, were temporary. Speaking in tongues was never the
common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit. Ultimate
deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our
salvation in the resurrection, although God frequently chooses to answer the
prayers of believers for physical healing. (1 Cor. 1:22; 13:8; 14:21-22).
(F) The Total Depravity of Man. We believe that man was created in the image and
likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature,
and became alienated from God. Man is totally depraved and, of himself, utterly
unable to remedy his lost condition. (Gen. 1:26-17; Rom. 3:22-23; 5:12; 6:23; Eph. 2:
1-3; 4:17-19).
(G) Salvation. We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and
received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, Whose precious blood was shed
on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins. We believe that all sins, except blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit, are forgivable. (Matt. 12:31-32; John 1:12; Eph 1:7; 2:8-10; 1 Pet.
1:18-19; 1 John 1:9).
(H) The Eternal Security and Assurance of Believers.
(1) We believe that once a person is saved, he is kept by God's power and remains
secure in Christ forever. (John 6:37-40; 10:27-30; Rom 8:1, 38-39; 1 Cor. 1:
4-8; 1 Pet. 1:4-5).
(2) We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their
salvation through the testimony of God's Word, which, however, clearly forbids
the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to the flesh. (Rom. 13:13-14; Gal. 5:
13; Titus 2:11-15).
(I) The Church.
(1) We believe that the local church, which is the body and the espoused bride of
Christ, is solely made up of born-again believers. (1 Cor. 12:12-14; 2 Cor. 11:2;
Eph. 1:22-23; 5:25-27).
(2) We believe that the establishment and continuance of local Baptist churches is
clearly taught and defined in the New Testament. (Acts 14:27; 20:17, 28-32;
1 Tim. 3:1-13; Titus 1:5-11).
(3) We believe in the autonomy of the local Baptist church, free of any external
authority or controls, and any affiliations, societies, organizations, associations,
or agencies this church affiliates with to further the objectives stated in the
Purpose Statement are not authoritative in matters of church practice or
belief. (Acts 13:1-4; 15:19-31; 20:28; Rom. 16:1, 4; 1 Cor. 3:9, 16; 5:4-7, 13;
1 Pet. 5:1-4).
(4) We recognize water baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper as the
Scriptural ordinances of obedience for the church in this age. (Matt 28:19-20;
Acts 2:41-42; 8:36-38; 1 Cor. 11:23-26).
(J) Separation. We believe that believers should maintain a godly testimony and live in
such a way that their lives do not bring reproach upon their Savior. God commands
His people to separate from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures,
practices, and associations, and to refrain from all immodest and immoderate
appearances. We stand against any and all worldly philosophies that seek to destroy
or undermine the truth of Biblical Christianity. (Lev. 19:28; Rom. 12:1-2; 14:13;
1 Cor. 6:19-20; 2 Cor. 6:14-7:1; 2 Tim. 3:1-5; 1 John 2:15-17; 2 John 9-11).
(K) The Second Coming of Christ. We believe in that blessed hope, the personal,
imminent return of Christ, Who will rapture His church prior to the seven-year
tribulation period. At the end of the Tribulation, Christ will personally and visibly
return with His saints, to establish His earthly Messianic Kingdom, which was
promised to the nation of Israel. (Ps. 89:3-4; Dan. 2:31-45; Zech. 14:4-11; 1 Thess.
1:10; 4:13-18; Titus 2:13; Rev. 3:10; 19:11-16; 20:1-6).
(L) The Eternal State.
(1) We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the
unsaved to judgment and everlasting punishment. (Matt. 25:46; John 5:28-29;
11:25-26; rev. 20:5-6, 12-13).
(2) We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and
present with the Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection,
when spirit, soul, and body are reunited to be glorified forever with the Lord.
(Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 5:8; Phil. 1:23; 3:21; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 20:4-6).
(3) We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious
punishment and torment until the second resurrection, when with soul and body
reunited, they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, and shall be
cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting
conscious punishment and torment. (Matt. 25:41-46; Mark 9:43-44; Luke 16:
19-26; 2 Thess. 1:7-9; Jude 6-7; Rev. 20:11-15).
(M) The Personality of Satan. We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and
the cause of the Fall of Man; that he is the open and declared enemy of God
and man; and that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire. (Job 1:6-7;
Isa. 14:12-17; Matt. 4:2-11; 25:41; Rev. 20:10).
(N) Creation. We believe that the Genesis account of creation is neither allegory nor
myth, but a literal, historical account of God's creation of the universe in six
literal, 24-hour days. We reject evolution, the Day-Age Theory, and Theistic
Evolution as unscriptural theories of origin. (Gen. 1-2; Ex 20:11).
(O) Civil Government. We believe that God has ordained and created all authority
consisting of three basic institutions: 1) the home, 2) the church, and 3) the
state. Every person is subject to these authorities, but all (including the authori-
ties themselves) are answerable to God and governed by His Word. God has
given each institution specific Biblical responsibilities and balanced those re-
sponsibilities with the understanding that no institution has the right to infringe
upon the other. The home, the church, and the state are equal and sovereign in
their respective Biblically assigned spheres of responsibility under God. We
believe that we must obey the state unless it requires us to act contrary to our
faith, at which time we must obey God rather than the state. (Matt. 22:15-22;
Acts 5:29; Rom. 13:1-7; Eph. 5:22-24; Titus 3:1-2; Heb. 13:17; 1 Pet 2:13-14).
(P) Human Sexuality.
(1) We believe that God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged
in outside of a marriage between one naturally-born man and one naturally-born
woman. We believe that any form of homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality,
transgenderism, bestiality, incest, fornication, adultery and pornography are
sinful perversions of God's gift of sex. We believe that God disapproves of and
forbids any attempt to alter one's gender, by surgery, physical appearance or any
medical interventions such as puberty blockers. (Gen 2:24; Gen 19:5, 13; Gen
26:8-9; Lev. 18:1; Rom. 1: 26-29; 1 Cor. 5:1; 6:9; 1 Thess. 4:1-8; Heb 13:4).
(2) We believe that the only Scriptural marriage is the joining of one naturally-born
man and one naturally-born woman for life. (Gen 2:24; Rom 7:2; 1 Cor 7:10;
Eph 5:22-23).
(Q) Family Relationships
(1) We believe that men and women are spiritually equal in position before God, but
that God has ordained distinct and separate spiritual functions for men and
women in the home and the church. The husband is to be the leader of the home,
and men are to be the leaders (pastors and deacons) of the church. Accordingly,
only men are eligible for licensure and ordination by the church. (Gal 3:28; Col
3:18; 1 Tim 2:8-15; 1 Tim 3:4-5, 12).
(2) We believe that God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of
human society. The husband is to love his wife as Christ loves the church. The
wife is to submit herself to the Scriptural leadership of her husband, as the
church submits to the headship of Christ. Children are an heritage from the Lord.
Parents are responsible for teaching their children spiritual and moral values
through consistent lifestyle example and appropriate discipline, including
Scriptural corporal correction. (Gen 1:26-28; Ex 20:12; Deut 6:4-9; Ps 127:3-5;
Prov. 19:18; 22:15: 23:13-14; Mk 10:6-12; 1 Cor 7:1-16; Eph 5:21-33; 6:1-4;
Col 3:18-21; Heb 13:4; 1 Pet 3:1-7).
(R) Divorce and Remarriage. We believe that God disapproves of and forbids divorce,
and intends marriage to last until one of the spouses dies. Divorce and remarriage
is regarded as adultery, except on the grounds of fornication. Although divorced
and remarried persons or divorced persons may hold positions of service in the
church and be greatly used of God for Christian service, they may not be con-
sidered for the offices of pastor or deacon. (Mal 2:14-17; Matt 19:3-12; Rom 7:
1-3; 1 Tim 3:2, 12; Titus 1:6).
(S) Abortion. We believe that human life begins at conception and that the unborn child
is a living human being. Abortion constitutes the unjustified, unexcused taking
of an unborn human life. Abortion is murder. We reject any teaching that
abortions due to rape, incest, birth defects, gender selection, birth or population
control, or the physical or mental well-being of the mother are acceptable. (Job 3:
16; Ps 51:5; Ps 139:14-16; Isa 44:24; 49:1; Jer 1:5; 20:15-18; Luke 1:44).
(T) Euthanasia. We believe that the direct taking of an innocent human life is a moral
evil, regardless of the intention. Life is a gift of God, and must be respected from
conception until natural death. Thus we believe that an act or omission which, of
itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering constitutes a
murder contrary to the will of God. Discontinuing medical procedures that are
extraordinary or disproportionate to the expected outcome can be a legitimate
refusal of over-zealous treatment. (Ex 20:13, 23:7; Matt 5:21; Acts 17: 28).
(U) Love. We believe that we should demonstrate love for others, not only toward fellow
believers, but also toward those who are not believers, those who oppose us, and
those who engage in sinful actions. We are to deal with those who oppose us
graciously, gently, patiently, and humbly. God forbids the stirring up of strife,
the taking of revenge, or the threat or use of violence as a means of resolving
personal justice. Although God commands us to abhor sinful actions, we are to
love and pray for any person who engages in such sinful actions. (Lev 19:18;
Matt 5: 44-48; Luke 6:31; John 13:34-35; Rom 12: 9-10, 17-21; 13: 8-10; Phil
2: 2-4; 2 Tim 2: 24-26; Titus 3:2; 1 John 3: 17-18).
(V) Lawsuits Between Believers. We believe that Christians are prohibited from bringing
civil lawsuits against other Christians or the church to resolve personal disputes.
We believe the church possesses all the resources necessary to resolve personal
disputes between members. We do believe, however, that a Christian may seek
compensation for injuries from another Christian's insurance company, as long as
the claim is pursued without malice or slander. (1 Cor 6:1-8; Eph 4: 31-32; Matt
18:15-17).
(W) Missions. We believe that God has given the church a great commission to proclaim
the Gospel to all nations so that there might be a great multitude from every
nation, tribe, ethnic group, and language group who believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. As ambassadors of Christ, we must use all available means to go to the
foreign nations and not wait for them to come to us. (Matt 28: 19-20; Mark 16:
15; Luke 24: 46-48; John 20:21; Acts 1:8; 2 Cor 5:20).
(X) Giving. We believe that every Christian, as a steward of that portion of God's wealth
entrusted to him, is obligated to financially support his local church. We believe
that God has established the tithe as a basis for giving, but that every Christian
should also give other offerings sacrificially and cheerfully to the support of the
church, the relief of those in need, and the spread of the Gospel. (Gen 14:20;
Prov 3: 9-10; Acts 4: 34-37; 1 Cor 16:2; 2 Cor 9: 6-7; Gal 6:6; Eph 4:28;
1 Tim 5: 17-18; 1 John 3: 17).
Primary Bible Version Used:
King James Version
Baptism:
Older Children/adults
Communion Frequency:
Occasionally
Eternal Security:
No, Can't Lose
Healing and Charismatic Gifts:
Ceased
Regularly Practice:
Altar Call or Invitation
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Lighthouse Baptist Church is a Baptist Church located in Zip Code 29687.
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