Wilshire Baptist Church is a Christian community of believers who meet weekly for worship and spiritual growth. Our mission is to build a community of faith shaped by the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
In the Baptist tradition, we operate with a congregational form of governance. Members of the congregation collectively make decisions about the church's life and ministries through committees, ministry teams and quarterly church conferences.
We are affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Wilshire is not what most people think of as a typical Texas Baptist or Southern Baptist church. We are trying to counter negative stereotypes people in the community have about churches in in general and Baptists in particular.
Senior Pastor George Mason offered further explanation about what it means for Wilshire to be “a different kind of Baptist church”:
We mean nothing mean toward other Baptist churches, but the difference in style, approach and missional focus are palpable.
We take Baptist convictions seriously. We practice the priesthood of all believers by celebrating the leadership of members in worship, ministry and decision-making. We do not default to the pastor or staff by delegating the work of the church to the professionals.
Worship is centered on God, not on ourselves. We don’t come to entertain or be entertained. We sing and pray and preach as though God is the primary audience, not a casual observer of our gathering. Good choral music, hymn-singing instead of bands and big screens, are only signs of higher values. Tradition matters. The vertical is more important than the horizontal.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, even in church. We want informed faith, not blind faith. We don’t just wave the Bible and quote it; we study it and listen to it and wrestle with it and with one another over it. Disagreements do not lead to divorce, only to a more lively fellowship.
A woman’s place in the church is wherever she is gifted to serve. Gender is a difference to celebrate, not to discriminate.
The battered, the bruised, the broken and the bitter are welcome, along with the last, the lost, the little and the least. The church is a haven of healing as much as a sanctuary of saints. Since God is always more interested in our future than our past, so are we.
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