Welcome to Wychwood Baptist Church. On Sundays, you can expect a time of Biblical worship filled with fellowship, prayer, congregational singing, and sound expository teaching from God’s Word. We pray that your time would be blessed with us as we seek to be discipled and make disciples of Jesus Christ to the Glory of God.
On the Third Sunday of every month, we have an evening service from 17:00 to 18:00. At this service we worship, hear from God’s Word, and pray for one another.
Third Sunday Each Month
17:00PM to 18:00PM
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Each Sunday Morning Before The Main Sunday Service Starts, We Have Sunday School From 08:30AM To 09:15AM. This Is From Age 3 To Age 12. We Worship And Learn The Word Of God Together.
Each Sunday (During School Terms)
08:30AM to 09:15AM
YOUTH MINISTRY
God has blessed Wychwood Baptist Church with a thriving group of teenagers. At our youth meetings, teenagers will learn how to cultivate a biblical worldview based on the Scriptures. Our youth meetings take place on Friday nights from 19:00PM to 21:00PM
Each Friday (During School Terms)
19:00PM to 21:00PM
BIBLE STUDY
Wychwood Baptist Church’s Bible Study forms the nucleus of church care. Our Bible Studies exist to promote the development of Christian relationships centred around the study of God’s Word. We currently meet on Tuesday evenings at the church.
Each Tuesday (During School Terms)
19:00PM to 20:00PM
SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE
On the Third Sunday of every month, we have an evening service from 17:00 to 18:00. At this service we worship, hear from God’s Word, and pray for one another.
Third Sunday Each Month
17:00PM to 18:00PM
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Each Sunday Morning Before The Main Sunday Service Starts, We Have Sunday School From 08:30AM To 09:15AM. This Is From Age 3 To Age 12. We Worship And Learn The Word Of God Together.
Each Sunday (During School Terms)
08:30AM to 09:15AM
YOUTH MINISTRY
God has blessed Wychwood Baptist Church with a thriving group of teenagers. At our youth meetings, teenagers will learn how to cultivate a biblical worldview based on the Scriptures. Our youth meetings take place on Friday nights from 19:00PM to 21:00PM
Each Friday (During School Terms)
19:00PM to 21:00PM
BIBLE STUDY
Wychwood Baptist Church’s Bible Study forms the nucleus of church care. Our Bible Studies exist to promote the development of Christian relationships centred around the study of God’s Word. We currently meet on Tuesday evenings at the church.
Each Tuesday (During School Terms)
19:00PM to 20:00PM
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
About Our Church And The Convictions We Share
The Bible is the God-breathed, inerrant Word of God, wholly true in all it affirms, guided by the Spirit through human authors, affirmed by Jesus, and as such is the Christian’s final and authoritative rule for faith, doctrine, and life.
The gospel is the good news that God, who created us and is perfectly holy and righteous, offers salvation through Jesus Christ, who bore the punishment for our sins and rose from the dead, and we receive this salvation by repenting of our sin and trusting in Him by faith alone.
Jesus was a real, historical man who lived in Israel 2,000 years ago and, while many religions call Him a prophet, good teacher, or godly man, the Bible teaches He is infinitely more. According to Scripture, Jesus is God in the flesh who claimed unity and pre-existence with God (John 10:30; 8:58; Exodus 3:14), is called “our God and Savior” by Paul and Peter (Titus 2:13; 2 Peter 1:1), fulfills Old Testament prophecies of the Messiah (Isaiah 9:6), and, as fully God and fully man, is the only Savior and perfect Mediator between heaven and earth, offering salvation to all who believe (1 Timothy 2:5; John 14:6; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:8).
Saving faith is a personal, rational, emotional, volitional, and directional trust in Jesus Christ, personally trusting in the person and salvation work of Him by faith, embracing Him with conviction, entrusting oneself to Him as Lord and Saviour, and directing one’s life toward Him.
Baptism is a church’s act of affirming and portraying a believer’s union with Christ by immersing them in water, and a believer’s act of publicly committing to Christ and his people—always involving both the church and the believer—ordinarily authorized by the local church, publicly testifying to Jesus’ authority and the believer’s union with the church and marking them off from the world.
Church membership matters because it makes a visible commitment to Christ and his people, the church; demonstrates a counter-cultural statement of commitment to the church, formally declares that you are not independent, but joined to a body of believers; provides accountability through mutual responsibility to fellow believers and submission to church leadership, helps pastors and elders shepherd effectively by knowing who is part of the flock; and gives you the opportunity to make solemn promises to pray, serve, give, attend worship, and uphold unity.
We use a catechism because it gives structured instruction in the Bible and its doctrines, continues the historic practice of teaching the next generation of Christians, and fosters steady, covenantal growth rather than relying on dramatic emotional experiences. It also helps parents teach their children God’s knowledge, trains them in the “grammar of theology” so they understand key doctrines and equips Christians to grow from spiritual milk to solid food.
The regulative principle of worship teaches that corporate worship must be conducted according to specific prescriptions of Scripture. Biblical support includes the tabernacle instructions, Cain’s offering, the Ten Commandments, the golden calf, Nadab and Abihu, Saul’s disobedience, and Jesus’ critique of Pharisaical worship (Ex. 25:40; Gen. 4:3–8; Ex. 20:2–6; Lev. 10; 1 Sam. 15:22; Matt. 15:1–14). This is also reinforced by Paul’s regulation of Corinthian and Colossian worship (1 Cor. 14:27–32; Col. 2:23), requiring reading, preaching, singing, praying the Bible, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper, while preventing improper acts, allowing lawful variation in matters not specifically mentioned in the Bible, and protecting conscience by binding only God’s explicit prescriptions.
Expository preaching is preaching that draws its content solely from Scripture, interprets it in its normal sense and context, faithfully stays within the text’s boundaries and points, unfolds and clarifies what is obscure, applies the truth to the preacher and hearers’ lives, exalts Christ and aligns with systematic and Biblical theology while emphasizing the text’s major ideas, and conveys God’s presence to engage hearers spiritually.
When you come to worship, dress in a way that reflects God’s transcendence and immanence, His kindness and severity—with both gratitude and reverence. Let humility guide you so your clothing doesn’t distract or exalt yourself and aim for what is fitting before a holy and gracious God.
A Reformed Baptist church adheres to the regulative principle of worship limiting worship to Scripture-prescribed elements and believer’s baptism, embraces covenant theology applying God’s covenant of grace to believers only, is Calvinistic, holding total depravity, unconditional election, and salvation through Christ’s covenant of redemption, views the Ten Commandments as God’s moral law guiding sanctification under Christ, and is confessional, typically adhering to the Second London Baptist Confession of 1689, while interpreting Scripture in continuity with historic church teaching.
