Welcome to First Baptist Church
We are an American Baptist church at 1402 T Street in Bridgeport, Nebraska. Whether you are looking for a church home or just visiting, we would be glad to have you worship with us.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8
Watch Online
Can’t make it on Sunday morning? Our 9:00 AM worship service is streamed live on Facebook. Our church Facebook group also shares God’s Word and uplifting music through the week.
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What to Expect
Sunday worship begins at 9:00 AM with music, prayer, Scripture and preaching from Pastor Ray Cook. Bible study follows at 10:00 AM, and visitors are welcome to stay.
Come as you are. If you have questions before your visit, call the church at (308) 262-1371.
Ministries
Worship
Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM, in person and streamed live on Facebook.
Bible Study
Sundays at 10:00 AM, right after worship, and Monday nights at 6:30 PM. Everyone is welcome.
Missions
We are committed to supporting missions locally, regionally, statewide, nationally and around the world.
News & Events
Building Project
In September 2025 we broke ground on three new classrooms and a new entryway to our Fellowship Hall, so we have Sunday School space for all ages.
Prayer Requests
Call the church at (308) 262-1371. We would be glad to pray with you.
Our New Website
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About Us
First Baptist Church of Bridgeport, Nebraska is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska and American Baptist Churches USA.
Our Purpose
The purpose of our church is the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. We seek it through the public worship of God, the preaching of the gospel, the ordinances of the church as we believe the New Testament teaches them, consistent Christian living, personal evangelism, missionary endeavors and Christian education.
Statement of Faith
From Article IV of the constitution of First Baptist Church of Bridgeport
Our Faith
We believe that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
We believe that the penalty for sin is eternal separation from God.
We believe that despite what we deserve, God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to pay the death penalty for us.
We believe that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
We believe that all who confess with their mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in their heart that God raised Him from the dead, will be saved from eternal separation from God and enter into a right relationship with God.
We believe that the Word of God is complete and without error, all of which is profitable for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training for right living with God.
We believe that God has chosen us and made us a part of His holy people whom He loves, not because of anything we have done, but because He first loved us.
Our Commitments
We agree to continue gathering together for worship, whether we maintain fellowship at First Baptist Church or if God leads us to live elsewhere.
We commit to participate in God’s plan for reaching the lost by going into all the world, making disciples, and baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
We commit to cheerfully giving back a portion of all that God has given us as an act of worship.
We commit to local, regional, state, national, and international mission support.
We also believe that we are called by God, as a family made up of many individuals who are committed to the message found in Colossians 3:12-17.
12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 15And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. 17And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Creation and Marriage
We believe that God created people in His image as either male or female and this creation is a fixed matter of human biology, not individual choice. The following scriptures support these beliefs.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
We believe that marriage is ordained by God Himself and is between one man and one woman, in the sight of God, to each other; and that this is the only context for sexual desire and expression.
We believe that marriage is instituted by God, not government, and goes beyond a legal or civil ceremony.
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Scripture text is from the King James Version. Each reference links to the passage in the NIV, the translation quoted in our constitution.