About Dry Creek Bible Church
Dry Creek Bible Church was founded in 1933 under the name, Dry Creek
Independent Congregational Church.  The church was started by Seth Baggett
who was also responsible for the beginnings of 3 other area churches as well as
Camp Pearl in Reeves Louisiana.  The church moved to it's present location in
1966 and changed to it's current name in 1995.  

If you would like to read the complete history of Dry Creek Bible Church, please
follow this link.
Where Dry Creek Bible Church is Located
The History of Dry Creek Bible Church
Click on the play button above to hear the founder of Dry Creek Bible Church,
Brother Seth Baggett, talk about how it got started.  
The interview was conducted in the nursing home by Wayne Green.  The quality of
the audio improves as the interview goes along.
Below is our doctrinal statement that will give you a good idea about what we believe
and feel to be important.  Dry Creek Bible Church is a member of the Independant
Fundamental Churches of America (IFCA)   To download our doctrinal statment,
please click on the link below, or scroll down to read the document on this page.
Dry Creek Bible Church
Doctrinal Statement
Section l. Articles of Biblical Faith
Each and every person, church, or organization, in order to become or remain a member of Dry Creek Bible
Church, shall be required to subscribe to the following articles of faith:

(1) The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally inspired Word of God,           
the final authority for faith and life, inerrant in the original writings, infallible and God­breathed

(2) The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally existing in three persons­-Father, Son, and Holy                                      
Spirit-­co­eternal in being, co­identical in nature, co­equal in power and glory, and having the same                    
attributes and perfections

(3) The Person and Work of Christ
a. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man, without ceasing to be                
    God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that he might                  
    reveal God and redeem sinful men

b. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died on the cross for all mankind as a representative, vicarious,          
     substitutionary sacrifice, and that the sufficiency of this atoning sacrifice to accomplish the                            
     redemption and justification of all who trust in him is assured by his literal, physical resurrection from          
     the dead

c. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ ascended to heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of                 
     God, where, as our high priest, he fulfills the ministry of representative, intercessor, and advocate

(4) The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
a. We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of                   
    judgment; and, that he is the supernatural agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body            
    of Christ, indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption

b. We believe that he is the divine teacher who guides believers into all truth; and, that it is the privilege             
  and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit

(5) The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam's sin the race fell,             
inherited a sinful nature, and became alienated from God; and, that man is totally depraved, and, of                   
himself, utterly unable to remedy his lost condition

(6) Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the           
Lord Jesus Christ, whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins

(7) The Eternal Security and Assurance of Believers
a. We believe that all the redeemed, once saved, are kept by God's power and are thus secure in Christ           
    forever

b. We believe that it is the privilege of believers to rejoice in the assurance of their salvation through the            
  testimony of God's Word; which, however, clearly forbids the use of Christian liberty as an occasion to          
  the flesh


(8) The Two Natures of the Believer
We believe that every saved person possesses two natures, with provision made for victory of the new              
nature over the old nature through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit; and, that all claims to the                   
eradication of the old nature in this life are unscriptural

(9) Separation
We believe that all the saved should live in such a manner as not to bring reproach upon their Savior and          
Lord; and, that separation from all religious apostasy, all worldly and sinful pleasures, practices and              
associations is commanded of God

(10) Missions
We believe that it is the obligation of the saved to witness by life and by word to the truths of Holy                        
Scripture and to seek to proclaim the gospel to all mankind

(11) The Ministry and Spiritual Gifts
a. We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowment of all his gifts; and, that the gifts of evangelists,               
pastors, and teachers are sufficient for the perfecting of the saints today; and, that speaking in tongues           
and the working of sign miracles gradually ceased as the New Testament Scriptures were completed              
and their authority became established

b. We believe that God does hear and answer the prayer of faith, in accord with his own will, for the sick            
and afflicted

(12) The Church
a. We believe that the Church, which is the body and the espoused bride of Christ, is a spiritual organism         
made up of all born­again persons of this present age
b. We believe that the establishment and continuance of local churches is clearly taught and defined in              
 the New Testament Scriptures
c. We believe in the autonomy of the local church free of any external authority or control
d. We believe in the ordinances of believer's water baptism and the Lord's supper as scriptural means of          
 testimony for the church age

(13) Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures interpreted in their natural, literal sense reveal divinely determined                       
dispensations or rules of life which define man's responsibilities in successive ages. These                               
dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs           
man according to his purpose. Three of these - the age of law, the age of the Church, and the age of                
the millennial kingdom ­ are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture

(14) The Personality of Satan
We believe that Satan is a person, the author of sin and the cause of the fall; that he is the open and                   
declared enemy of God and man; and, that he shall be eternally punished in the Lake of Fire

(15) The Second Advent of Christ
We believe in that "Blessed Hope," the personal, imminent, pre­tribulation and pre-millennial coming of             
the Lord Jesus Christ for his redeemed ones; and in his subsequent return to earth, with his saints, to                
establish his millennial kingdom

(16) The Eternal State
a.         We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the saved to eternal life, and the unsaved to                    
   judgment and everlasting punishment

b. We believe that the souls of the redeemed are, at death, absent from the body and present with the               
   Lord, where in conscious bliss they await the first resurrection, when spirit, soul and body are reunited to         
   be glorified forever with the Lord
c. We believe that the souls of unbelievers remain, after death, in conscious misery until the second                   
  resurrection, when with soul and body reunited they shall appear at the Great White Throne Judgment,            
 and shall be cast into the Lake of Fire, not to be annihilated, but to suffer everlasting conscious                        
 punishment

Section 2. Movements Contrary to Faith
a. Ecumenism
      Ecumenism is that movement which seeks the organizational unity of all Christianity and ultimately of                 
      all religions. Its principal advocates are the World Council of Churches and the National Council of                     
      the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
b. Ecumenical Evangelism
      Ecumenical Evangelism is that effort to promote the gospel by bringing fundamentalists into an                           
      unequal yoke with theological liberals and/or Roman Catholics and other divergent groups.
c. Neo­Orthodoxy
      Neo­Orthodoxy is that theological movement which affirms: the transcendence of God, the finiteness                  
      and sinfulness of man, and the necessity of supernatural divine revelation of truth; but, while using                       
      evangelical terminology, seriously departs from orthodoxy: in accepting the views of destructive                          
      higher criticism, in denying the inerrancy of the Bible as historic revelation, in accepting religious                        
      experience as the criterion of truth, and in abandoning important fundamentals of the Christian faith.
d. New Evangelicalism
      (Neo­Evangelicalism, New Conservatism)
      These terms refer to that movement within evangelicalism characterized by a toleration of and a                         
      dialogue with theological liberalism. Its essence is seen in an emphasis upon the social application                   
      of the gospel and weak or unclear doctrines of: the inspiration of Scripture, biblical creationism,                          
      eschatology, dispensationalism, and separation. It is further characterized by an attempt to                                  
      accommodate biblical Christianity and make it acceptable to the modern mind.
      We believe that these movements are out of harmony with the Word of God and the official doctrine                   
      and position of DRY CREEK BIBLE CHURCH and are inimical to the work of God.

Section 3. Covenant of Faith
In subscribing to these articles of faith, we by no means set aside, or undervalue, any of the Scriptures of the
Old and New Testaments; but we deem the knowledge, belief and acceptance of the truth as set forth in our
doctrinal statement, to be essential to sound faith and fruitful practice, and therefore requisite for Christian
fellowship in Dry Creek Bible Church.
Dry Creek Bible Church is a partner with like minded churches in south west
Louisiana and south east Texas under the umbrella of Camp Pearl Ministries which
is located in Reeves Louisana.  The churches with web pages that are a part of our
fellowship of churches can be explored by clicking the link below.
PO Box 539, Dry Creek, La. 70637
(337) 328-7155       drycreekbible@yahoo.com