Lake Country Bible Church is dedicated to the preaching and teaching of the Word of God without compromise. The Bible is our standard for each of our ministries. Our Philosophy of ministry and overarching mission statement is summarized in three passages:
"We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ. For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me." Colossians 1:28-29
"And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ. As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love." Ephesians 4:11-16
"And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'" Matthew 28:18-20
The core values of LCBC are as follows:
Scripture alone has ultimate authority and sufficiency; therefore, our doctrine comes from God’s Word, the Bible.
We seek, by God’s grace, to equip and educate God’s people for the work of service.
We must declare God’s glory both near and far. In doing this, we must ensure that the gospel we proclaim is the biblical gospel.
We are committed to strengthening marriages and the family. We uphold covenant marriage and family as the first God-ordained units of nurture and instruction in godliness. In this, we also seek to uphold the sanctity of life in our culture of death. Marriage is the monogamous and lifelong relationship between one man and one woman.
Worship of God should be both thoroughly biblical as well as deeply joyful; it must be God-centered, not man-centered.
We uphold a regenerate church membership. Covenantal care and church discipline are parts of this membership.
The church is always being reformed according to the Word of God. Hence, we uphold the importance of the expositional preaching and teaching of God’s word.
We seek, by God’s grace, to be a model church and a sending church.
We long to be a prayerful church, deeply aware of God’s call upon his people to pray and his promise to answer prayer offered in faith and in accord with His will.
We are committed to a godly and biblical leadership, composed of pastors/elders and deacons, with lay ministry teams carrying out many aspects of the work of ministry.
We are a neighborhood church in the Lake Country/Milwaukee metro community. We seek to know and care for the needs of people in this particular community.
We are committed to providing a place of worship and spiritual instruction that is safe, Biblical, and honoring to God as a light to the community.
We affirm the sufficiency of God’s Word (Sola Scriptura). Holy Scripture teaches us that our eternal salvation is by grace alone (Sola Gratia), through faith alone (Sola Fide), in Christ Jesus alone (Sola Christus). God’s sovereign plan of redemption brings all the glory back to our Triune God (Soli Deo Gloria).