Fireside Reformed Baptist Church is a church plant in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. We sit under expository preaching, are lead by a plurality and parity of elders, and exalt the Scriptures and the sovereignty of God.

Over 500 years ago, in Wittenberg,  Germany a monk named Martin Luther started a protest that exploded into worldwide movement. With a simple hammer, he nailed his 95 these to the castle door in Wittnerberg for all to read. At that time, Europe lived in the shadow of the Roman Catholic Church. It was more like an empire than a church. It crowned and cast down kings, and used its dominance to keep people in the darkness of superstition. That sounds pretty unfamiliar.

But in some ways, Luther’s day was very much like our own. Just like today, everyone had an opinion about the Bible even though few people had actually read it. Like so many of us, they were trusting the thought-leaders and taste-makers of their day to tell them what was in the Bible and whether or not to believe it.

Luther was one of the very few people actually reading the Bible, and what he found was earth-shattering. When he studied it, the world around him began to make sense. God made sense. The significance of Jesus became clear to him. He discovered the answer to his deepest question: how could evil be overcome? Specifically, how could his own evil—his own sin—be dealt with?

You are invited to be part of the continuing history of this protest that is called Protestantism, which seeks to reform the church and the world in the shape of Jesus Christ and the message of the gospel. 

Fireside gathers for corporate worship on Sundays at The Country Inn and Suites in Elizabethtown. It is sometimes easy to forget that a church starts as a church plant. Many of them start without a building in which the church owns. Church plants often start in places such as public schools, hotels, civic centers, or other places where a group can gather and allow for sustained growth while saving for future facilities. Think of it is like a tree that can start out planted in a pot, but when it grows it will eventually be planted in the ground. We see the hotel as a gracious and God-given means by which Fireside can grow into maturity - and eventually a permeant facility.