We’re here because we have been transformed by the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ and we want to share His love with you. Whether you are new to Christianity or a Christian looking for a spiritual home, we welcome you to join us!
Welcome!
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At our worship service, you can expect contemporary praise and thought-provoking, biblical messages from one of our pastors. Following worship service, please join us for a home-cooked meal and time of fellowship. We’d love to get to know you!
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Our worship service begins at 3PM. On your first visit to KCBC, please look for the church facilities we rent from Long Beach Alliance Church @ 3331 Palo Verde Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90808. There is plenty of parking in the back and going from the parking lot through to the back of the church is the best way to the sanctuary.
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If you have children, we have JOYland, our children’s ministry, which provides childcare and children’s worship service right next to the main sanctuary. The greeter at the entrance of the sanctuary can help you find the JOYland rooms or answer any questions you may have. Or, contact us with any questions you have!
Koinonia Community Baptist Church, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), was founded with the vision to live out the Bible’s teaching on the Greatest Commandment – to love God and love one another, and the Great Commission – to make disciples of all nations. ‘Koinonia’ in Greek means fellowship of shared life. It names the distinctive character of the life of the triune God which is the basis of our new life with God in Christ and with each other.
Core Values
The Bible
What is the most important thing in our church? KCBC is committed first and foremost to studying and obeying the Word of God. In a world that operates according to programs and agendas, we are tempted, like the busy-body Martha, to forget the most important thing. At KCBC, we are reminded that we need to be like Mary, who sat and listened with reverence and delight at Jesus’ feet, before we actively serve like Martha. KCBC is committed to the study and teaching of God’s word through quiet time, Bible studies, Sunday School, Sunday messages, seminars, retreats and discipleship training for personal growth and for the purposes of training and evangelism.
“One Soul is More Important than the Whole World”
In Luke 15:3-7, the shepherd who lost one sheep leaves the rest of his flock of ninety-nine to go and find the one lost sheep. This is impractical and ludicrous by the world’s standard, but God loves each individual as tenaciously and wastefully as this shepherd. At KCBC, we experience the same personal love from God and strive to consider each other as valuable as God does.
Lordship
In Mark 14:1-9 we have an inspirational example of discipleship in the woman who breaks her alabaster jar of perfume to anoint Jesus with her most precious possession. This act captures the essence of what it means to serve Jesus as the Lord of our lives. At KCBC, we strive to emulate such whole-hearted devotion as the only appropriate response to Gods’ extravagant love.
Team Ministry - Covenant Relationships
The Bible abounds with examples of beautiful love/trust relationships. We believe that God desires that His church not only devote itself to loving Him intimately, but also to loving one another and working together toward the salvation of souls. Examples like Paul and Timothy, David and Jonathan, Naomi and Ruth serve as our models of covenant relationships. It is precisely within covenant relationships that we cultivate godly love, obedience, trust and sacrifice. At KCBC, we want to allow God to use our covenant relationships as channels for His will.
Family of God
In a world where relationships are disconnected and families fragmented, the family of God provides a place of true connection. As we cultivate relationships at KCBC, the church becomes a web of love, and we participate in establishing God’s history and roots. At KCBC, one of the ways we endeavor to build up God’s family is through fellowship. Whether it is through food, games, trials, victories, or other memory-making moments, we join together as one body with Christ as the head.
The World is our Mission Field
Beginning with one person, and going to the whole world, the KCBC family obeys God’s commission to share His Good News to “the ends of the earth.” As we expand God’s tent, we are committed to strengthening each stake, holding nothing back, as we send out and support our long-term and short-term missionaries all over the world.
Prayer and Intercession
Prayer is one of the greatest privileges of Christian life. Individually and corporately we experience God’s mighty working through prayer even in seemingly impossible situations. The Word of God and Prayer–being listed here as the first and last of our principles–serve as bookends holding together all the other values of KCBC.
The Scriptures
The Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired and is God’s revelation of Himself to man. It is a perfect treasure of divine instruction. It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter. Therefore, all Scripture is totally true and trustworthy.
God
There is one and only one living and true God. …The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
God the Father
God as Father reigns with providential care over His universe, His creatures, and the flow of the stream of human history according to the purposes of His grace. …God is Father in truth to those who become children of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
God the Son
Christ is the eternal Son of God. In His incarnation as Jesus Christ, He was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. …He honored the divine law by His personal obedience, and in His substitutionary death on the cross, He made provision for the redemption of men from sin.
God the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God, fully divine. …He exalts Christ. He convicts men of sin, of righteousness and of judgment. …He enlightens and empowers the believer and the church in worship, evangelism, and service.
Man
Man is the special creation of God, in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. …By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. … The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore every person of every race possesses dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.
Salvation
Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man, and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer. In its broadest sense salvation includes regeneration, justification, sanctification, and glorification.
God’s Purpose of Grace
Election is the gracious purpose of God, according to which He regenerates, justifies, sanctifies, and glorifies sinners. …All true believers endure to the end. Those whom God has accepted in Christ, and sanctified by His Spirit will never fall away from the state of grace, but shall persevere to the end.
The Church
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, observing the two ordinances of Christ, governed by His laws, exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by His Word, and seeking to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth.
The following beliefs are excerpted from the Baptist Faith and Message. A complete version is available here.