- Family integrated-on purpose
- Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
- PASTOR SCOTT ECKLES
About Pastor Eckles
Pastor Scott Eckles and wife Ann Marie have been married since 1989 and have eight children whom they have home educated from the very beginning. Their first child was born in 1990 while Scott was attending Bible college in Toledo, Ohio.
After graduating, Scott apprenticed under Glenn Desota at Grace Baptist Bible Fellowship in Flint, Michigan. Scott has continued to prepare to shepherd by preparing his family for life, through study and working as a mortgage loan officer and manager for several companies.
Scott was ordained and commissioned by Bethel Baptist Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio in 2008.
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- 614-599-4465
Come Worship With Us
Bethel Baptist Temple is currently meeting at the VFW Post at:
2436 Walcutt Rd
Columbus, OH 43228
Phone: 614-599-4465
Service Times:
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Sunday: 11:00 Teaching, Preaching, Music, Testimonies & Prayer
Wednesday: Evening service at 7:00 PM
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Strengthening FamiliesAbout us
Several Columbus area families felt the need to drive to Cincinnati for church service on Sundays, searching for biblical preaching, conservative music, family friendly ministry philosophy, and positive peer influences that would inspire their children to godly behavior. After several years of driving nearly 4 hours each Sunday for services, we sought the counsel of our leadership in Cincinnati to start a local church in the Columbus area.
In 2006, with the blessing of the Elders and Deacons of Bethel Baptist Temple, Cincinnati, Our fellowship in Columbus was born. Our pastor was one of the original families commuting from Columbus in 2006 and was called as the pastor officially in June, 2008.
Commitments
A doctrinal statement and constitutional commitments for Bethel Baptist Temple, as available, can be found elsewhere. We write them not to be informative, but to encourage you in your walk with our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. This page, however, concerns special areas of commitment which God is requiring us to emphasize and apply both personally and in our church fellowship. Listed commitments comprise central thrusts in the ministry which God has called the individuals and families of Bethel Baptist Temple to carry out. We renounce competition and pride as we seek God to bring these life expressions to pass within our life and lives. Each of these six areas may be greatly expanded from the core of truth presented here. Some are not yet functioning as we would wish them to be. However, we include them because we are convinced that God would have them to be central, though we have not yet faithfully brought that to pass. Achievement in each of these areas is by the grace of God alone, coupled with a willing and broken people who desire to see God glorified here and now before the Lord Jesus returns. May the very reading of these words move you to love and serve Him more fully and with great joy!
- To worship the Lord above all and in all is our highest joy, our greatest responsibility, and our distinct privilege as believers in our Lord Jesus Christ. Worshiping the Lord in holiness is simply giving Him the place, honor, credit, preeminence, gratitude, obedience, and conformity that is appropriate to His glory. This promotion of the “glory” of God is the most important pursuit of the Christian. It is always appropriate, both in dedicated times of worship, and at any other point in our fellowship together, to magnify the Lord. This is the heartbeat of the godly believer in even the routine of life (1Cor. 10:31). Through the fear of God, the reading of the Scriptures, the giving of exhortation, fervent teaching, releasing testimonies which point to the grace to God through Christ, the doing of good works from a proper motive and source, and the expression of godly music, we purpose to expand our vision and exaltation of God.
- We commit ourselves to the totality of Scripture, both Old and New Testaments, without hesitation or reserve. This commitment is not only to the established and traditional sound teaching of our normal statements of doctrine, but to many other areas of truth not normally reflected in doctrinal summaries. Personal response to the truth of God is part of, not and addition to, the way Scripture was written, and is applicable to all relationships and personal responsibilities. We are therefore to experience “life” as the normal result of hearing the Scriptures properly communicated. This “life” does not validate the Scriptures but is rather a result of its quickening power.
- We purpose to seek God first in all things, giving communion with God in Prayer a priority in our church fellowship that is worthy of the One Whom we seek. This reflects the place given in Scripture to “seeking the Lord.” Every activity, relationship and responsibility of life is to be brought before Him in faith. While understanding that all believing churches engage in prayer, we believe prayer toward God should be higher, holier, more joyful, and more energetically pursued than we often see today. We encourage meeting together for prayer before services, the use of prayer rooms at any time God so directs, and we will seek to give prayer the place of first importance in all of our activities. We must see as God does!
- We set our hearts to seek the Lord on His terms as we in humility persevere in seeking revival and all of its resulting expressions and accompaniments. “Revival truths” are those repeated teachings and responses in Scripture that are musts for joyful and Christ-honoring living, truths that simply tend toward life and holiness! These truths include the humbling of ourselves and the confession of our sin(s) as we discover more of what we are apart from fellowship with Christ. Also included are the positional truths of who we are in Christ, Scriptures that stress our personal responsibility before God, the need for personal gratefulness and response to the Lord in faith, and other truths which focus on the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. We purpose to place and keep these truths before ourselves continually.
- We not only acknowledge, but submit to the Great Commission that Christ first gave, then repeated to His disciples, and has also committed to us. We seek to carry out that commission to the glory of God, recognizing the lost condition of all men without Christ, and that the gospel of Christ is their only hope. We will seek to extend the gospel first through our personal lives and families, and then through channels of outreach through our church fellowship as God goes before us, directing evangelistic and discipling energies to both home and foreign missions. We believe that this commission is a commission to make disciples, the first actual step of which is evangelism. Preparation of heart and life is essential.
- We purpose to accomplish all of the above directives by committing ourselves both to be and become the Family which God has already constituted us in Christ – a saved body of people walking in love and unity, forgiving one another, living in submission to God and Christ through His Word, and ministering grace to one another. Yes, in all things we fail through ignorance, negligence, falling short of God’s ways, and even in deliberate disobedience. But though that is true, we seek to be a fellowship of those who are encouraging one another on to love and good works. As a family, we necessarily delight in families- homes where moms, dads, sons, daughters, and others are committed to discovering and implementing God’s ways together, and in living in oneness of spirit, purpose, and labor. Our purpose is to reinforce God’s family structure, and not to fragment or discourage it, knowing that the family has been established by God as the primary sphere of training, expression of love, and equipping toward personal ministry to others, beginning at home.
In summary, we need only one resource-the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the grace that comes by faith coupled with humility. To be strengthened and equipped in that grace, we recognize the importance of being trained through an effective and personal process of discipline. The above distinctives do not rule out the importance of other revealed and normal aspects of personal and church life, but they do indicate an emphasis on spheres of living which we believe are needed at this time and place.