First Baptist Church has been ministering in our community for over 75 years. Established in 1944, our church is committed to the preaching of God's Word, the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ, corporate worship, and the equipping of the people to grow and share their faith.
The city of Belle Chasse is located just 7 miles from downtown New Orleans, LA on the storied West Bank. Our church is located on Highway 23 in Belle Chasse, LA, just past the local high school and post office, and just 1.9 miles north of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base of New Orleans. Our congregants are eager to welcome new visitors and help you to feel at home whether you are here for just one Sunday or many.
If you have any questions regarding our church, please fill out a Connect form and someone will contact you.
The city of Belle Chasse is located just 7 miles from downtown New Orleans, LA on the storied West Bank. Our church is located on Highway 23 in Belle Chasse, LA, just past the local high school and post office, and just 1.9 miles north of the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base of New Orleans. Our congregants are eager to welcome new visitors and help you to feel at home whether you are here for just one Sunday or many.
If you have any questions regarding our church, please fill out a Connect form and someone will contact you.
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GOD IS...: The Attributes of God
Imagine a being of absolute power. This being is intimidating because it has no limits. Anselm of Canterbury, an 11th century Christian philosopher, reasoned that, if our imagination can fathom such a being, then that being, logically, must exist. If a being of such power does exist, that being must be God. God is the greatest thing that the human mind could imagine, yet we can not fully understand him. This is known as Anselm’s First Ontological Argument for God. We, as limited beings, can not possibly comprehend a higher being. It is impossible for our feeble minds to comprehend such a being. For example, most of us can not wrap our minds around the idea of trillions of dollars. The current national debt in America is approximately 35 trillion dollars. How much money is that, really? Can we even fathom it? If a container held 35,000 grains of rice, each grain of rice represents 1 billion dollars. Therefore, if the government were to say that they are going to pay off one billion dollars of our debt, look at how much debt is still left! That payment only removed one grain of rice from the debt! There's still 34,000 grains of rice left! That is an unfathomable number! But, this is a limited explanation. This is just about numbers. God is even more incomprehensible than the U.S. national debt! This is the struggle with describing God’s attributes: Every list of attributes or attempt to describe God is unsuccessful. There is no list of God’s attributes in Scripture. But, there is evidence of his attributes that is woven into the Word of God by its authors — beliefs that each author had about God that we can use to try and understand how vast and powerful God is. Despite my attempts to explain the attributes of God through these sessions, it will pale in comparison to his actual greatness because human language and human minds can only describe God — we can not comprehend or understand God. The qualities of God can be separated into two categories: communicable and incommunicable. God’s communicable attributes are those that we, as humans, can emulate, like mercy and forgiveness. His incommunicable attributes are those that humans cannot possess or emulate, such as onmipotence and immanence. Over the course of this eight week series, we will observe both God’s incommunicable attributes, sich as omniscience and transcendence, and God's communicable attributes, such as love and truthfulness. Because there is so much misconception in our postmodern culture about who God is and what God does, it is imperative that we have a strong theological understanding of God and his characteristics as described in Scripture. Most importantly, we will not only observe these qualities of God, but we will also observe how Jesus displayed these same traits, because Jesus was (and is) God. The more we get to know the Father, the better we know the Son. 
Worship with us.
One way to worship with us is to attend a worship service on Sunday mornings. Our worship services are held once a week at 10:30AM on Sunday mornings. A typical service consists of worship through song, prayer, and a sermon from our pastor. We encourage families to worship together at First Baptist Church. Children ages 5 and up are invited to join us in worship and childcare is provided for children ages 4 and under. Our desire is that every member of your family will find worship at First Baptist Church to be engaging, edifying, and inspirational. The worship gathering is not meant to be your family's one exposure to God's word per week, but rather it is meant to supplement the study of the Bible taking place in your home and to celebrate how you and your family are living for God outside of the church. To view our video library of past worship services, visit our Watch page. Or, you can listen to past sermons in a podcast format by visiting our Listen page. Another way to worship with us is to join a small group. We have a number of groups for all ages meeting on Sunday mornings at 9:30. If you would like to be contacted with more information about small groups, please fill out a Connect form and someone will contact you. Worship through service. The most effective means of growing in your relationship with Christ and with the church is to serve. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our areas of service are somewhat limited, but we do have needs in our nursery, children's ministry, worship team, and production team. If you would like to volunteer in any of these or other areas in our church, please fill out a Serve form and we will contact you. Worship at home. The most effective and lasting faith training happens at home. We want to encourage you to worship with your family and study God's word in your home. Joining us for a worship service is wonderful, but worship is a lifestyle. We want to encourage you to invite the Holy Spirit into your home and worship outside of the church as well as inside. Worship services will be live-streamed via Facebook Live at 10:30Am on Sundays, and past services are available on our YouTube Channel. Worship through giving. To keep our church financially healthy and able to do ministry, we need the financial support of our members and of those who feel led to give. Please use our online giving system to give your tithes and offerings so that the ministry of First Baptist Church of Belle Chasse may continue today and in the future. 
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