| Sunday Services |
| 9:30am - Bible Study for all ages. |
| 10:45am - Morning Worship |
| 5:40pm - Psalm Sing |
| 6:00pm - Evening Worship |
7 Baboosic Lake Road
P.O. Box 507
Merrimack, NH 03054 - 0507
(603) 424-3947
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Senior Pastor
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Dr. Allen Tomlinson
(Teaching Elder in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church)
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Assistant Pastor
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Pastor Stephen Michaud
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Our Beliefs
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The First Congregational Church of Merrimack receives and adopts the
Westminster Confession of Faith
and Catechisms as an excellent summary of our beliefs and they are
the standards to which all the officers in our church subscribe.
In the great commission, Jesus commanded His apostles, "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 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to
observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you
always, even to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:18-20) Such
discipleship is exemplified for us in the book of Acts, " Then
those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about
three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued
steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking
of bread, and in prayers " (Acts 2:41-42). We continue to disciple
in this way of instructing the Lord's people in the apostles' doctrine
(Bible Studies and expository preaching each Lord's Day), by the
administration of the sacraments, and by other times of regular prayer
and fellowship with God's people.
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The following comes straight from our Church Bylaws:
ARTICLE I:
NAME:
This Church, founded September 5, 1771, and incorporated March 29,
1935, shall be called the First Congregational Church of Merrimack,
New Hampshire.
ARTICLE II:
FAITH, POLITY AND FELLOWSHIP:
Believing that the Bible alone is the infallible word of God, we
affirm that it alone is our final authority for faith and practice (II
Timothy 3:16-17). We also affirm the right of the individual to study
and interpret the Bible for him-self (Acts 17:11), in accordance with
that infallible rule of Bible interpretation commonly called "The
Analogy of Faith" (Matthew 22:29, 31-32).This rule teaches us that the
Bible is its own interpreter, as we understand the more difficult
texts in the light of the more clear texts. By the "Bible" we mean
the sixty-six books of the Old and New Tes-taments.
We believe in the one true and living God in three Persons, of
one essence, power and eternity: the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit (Matthew 28:19). The holy, triune God is the sole Creator of
all things, and the only Redeemer of the elect (Genesis 1:1, I Timothy
2:3). God the Father, Whom no man has seen nor can see, so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son (John 1:18, 3:16). God the
Son is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word and Lamb of God, Who as the
true and living God became a true Man without sin (Matthew 1:20, 23),
uniting in One Person two distinct natures (the divine and the human).
For our sins He died on the cross as a propitiatory sacrifice to
satisfy Divine jus-tice (I John 2:2), and literally and physically
rose again victorious over sin, Hell, Satan and death (I Corinthians
15). He will come again, literally and physically (Acts 1:11), to
glorify His saints and to destroy His enemies (II Thessalo-nians
1:6-10). God the Holy Spirit is that Person of the Godhead Who
applies the redemptive work of the Son and the love of the Father to
His elect (John 3:1-8; Titus 3:5). He does this by working faith and
repentance in their hearts, and so uniting them to Christ by
effectually calling them (Ephesians 2:8-10; I Corinthians 1:22-24) by
means of the Holy Scriptures (I Peter 1:23-25).
The purpose of the church is to glorify God (I Corinthians
6:20), to build up itself in the faith and love of Jesus Christ
(Ephesians 4:11-16), and to proclaim to all the world the Gospel of
Justification by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone (Matthew 28:19-20).
The government of this church is vested solely in its members as
outlined in these By-Laws below, but while holding to the autonomy of
the local church and its independence of all ecclesiastical control,
we cherish the fellowship of churches of like doctrine and practice (I
Timothy 1:3; Revelation 2:2, 14-16).
We agree to maintain the institution of the church and the
purity of the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ (Matthew 28:20), to
submit ourselves to the orderly administration of the affairs of the
church (Hebrews 13:17), and to walk to-gether in brotherly love
(Hebrews 13:1).
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