Historic Faith

Emmanuel Baptist Church began in 1898 and has ever since been loving people and building on a legacy of 109 years of witness for Christ in Toledo. Ours is a landmark ministry that has been faithful and fruitful over decades of change and challenge in Northwest Ohio.

This church has stood and fought for the fundamental truths of historic Christianity, the person and work of Christ, the inerrancy of the Bible, and the regenerate nature of the church. Emmanuel Baptist separated itself from the theological liberalism of the Northern Baptist Convention in 1929 and joined itself to the emerging General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. Emmanuel believes that all truth is God’s truth.

As a church marked by historic faith, Emmanuel is committed to showing the power of God to each generation. We are not redefining Christianity, but relaying it authentically and realistically within the context of our day and culture.

Emphatic Preaching

Emmanuel Baptist Church is a Word-driven church. We are committed theologically and methodologically to the inerrancy, sufficiency, and complete authority of the Holy Scripture. We believe that the Bible is the final authority in matters of faith and practice. We are not looking for God's word in further words of knowledge or church traditions because we believe that the Bible contains the Word of God in all its totality. Therefore, the Bible through the Spirit of God, drives, defines, and develops all that we see to do. There is not a context of our ministry where the teaching of the Word of God is not central to all that is going on.

Our pastoral staff is committed to expository preaching Sunday by Sunday. The driving power of our services is a verse by verse study of a biblical passage that allows God to speak through the text of the Bible into our lives. With the Protestant reformers, we believe that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Dynamic Worship

Emmanuel Baptist is also a church that loves to engage in thoughtful and heartfelt worship of the Triune God. We recognize with the divines of old that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Therefore, we seek to glorify God through His Son, the Lord Jesus, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

We do that through singing, preaching, praying, loving, observing the Lord's Table, and holy living. A wonderful music program that involves choirs, orchestra, ensembles, and dramatic musicals guides our worship.

Our worship is a marriage between doxology and theology. This worship engages the mind, stirs the heart, and sanctifies the soul. We enjoy worship that balances reverence with exuberance, quietness with a joyful noise, and historic hymns with contemporary choruses.

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