Our Rich History

Located at 5051 Gravel Hill Road, Gravel Hill Missionary Baptist Church sits just east of the county line in Macon County while utilizing a Bethpage, Tennessee mailing address. Its roots date back to the late 19th century around 1869, serving as a foundational spiritual and community anchor for the rural area

Our Core Beliefs

  • The Bible: The inerrant, divinely inspired Word of God and the final authority in all matters of faith and practice.
  • God & Trinity: One eternal God existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
  • Jesus Christ: Fully divine and fully human, born of a virgin, who died for sins, rose bodily, and will return.
  • Salvation: By grace alone through faith in Jesus Christ’s finished work, not by works.
  • Ordinances: Two symbolic ordinances: Believer’s Baptism (immersion only) and the Lord’s Supper.
  • Church Authority: Local church autonomy (independent, self-governing) and congregational rule.
  • Missions: A strong commitment to evangelism and spreading the Gospel globally.
  • Humanity/Sin: Humans are created in God’s image but are fallen in sin, necessitating salvation.
  • Eternal Security: Believers are eternally secure in Christ.

Church Covenant

Having been led, as we believe by the Spirit of God. to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God. and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.

We engage, therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness, and comfort: to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.

We also engage to maintain family and secret devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; to avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; to abstain from the sale of, and use of, intoxicating drinks as a beverage; to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.

We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember one another in prayer; to aid one another in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules of our Savior to secure it without delay.

We moreover engage that when we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.