for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ"
Ephesians 4:12 (NASB)
About Us
CBTC's mission is to assist in the equipping and encouraging of pastors, preachers and teachers in rural locations for carrying out their God-ordained calling.By way of introduction, the Centerville Bible Training Center is a new ministry with headquarters in Centerville, Tennessee. CBTC's focus will be on those churches located in rural middle Tennessee counties.
Statement of Faith
We believe that the Holy Scriptures, consisting of Old and New Testaments, were originally and inerrantly communicated by God and, therefore, are verbally inspired, and constitute the infallible authority in all matters of faith, life and conduct.We believe that there is one true God, subsisting in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, the same in essence and equal in wisdom, goodness, power and glory.
We believe in the essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His inerrant teaching, in His substitutionary and expiatory death, by which we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins; in His bodily resurrection from among the dead, in His ascension to Heaven, in His present priestly session, in His personal return at the end of the age to raise the dead, glorify the church, judge the earth, and to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.
We believe that man was created innocent and in the spiritual image of God; that he was tempted by Satan and fell, and that through his sin, his posterity thereby incurred not only physical death but also spiritual death, which is eternal separation from God.
We believe that the salvation of lost and sinful man comes only through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit as man repents toward God and exercises faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit to convict the world of sin, of righteousness, and or judgment; and to indwell and enable the Christian to live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present age.
We believe that the church on earth consists of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are dedicated to the worship and service of God through the proclamation of the Word, the observance of the sacraments, and the administration of discipline.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust--the just to everlasting life and bliss, and unjust to everlasting shame and perdition.