So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
In Acts 2 we get to read about the planting of the first New Testament church. Every single church began as a church plant, and Fireside is no exception. The first informal gathering of Fireside was in November 2020 when a small group of believers were gathered next to a backyard fire. The gathering was initiated by an acute awareness for a local church that was formed by the Scriptures, as opposed to the traditions, thoughts, or opinions of man. After several weeks of prayer, nine people covenanted on January 31st, 2021. From that small gathering next to the fire came Fireside Baptist Church. Since then, Fireside has gathered in several locations to accommodate logistics and growth. Currently, Fireside meets in the Country Inn and Suites off 1-65 in Elizabethtown.
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
When Paul wrote to Timothy, he gave him instructions on what to teach. Paul said that Timothy was to teach "what you have heard from me" in the presence of other faithful Christians. Paul also gives the purpose of teaching "what [he] heard" from Paul -- so that he will be "able to teach others also." This is an encouragement that comes with a warning. Because canon of Scripture is closed, there is nothing new in the Christian faith. In other words, the same truths that Paul preached, Timothy was then to preach. The same truths Timothy was to preach, he was then to train others so that they would also be able to teach others.
Biblical truth is the same, from the apostle Paul until now, and forever more. Fireside seeks to follow in the historic, confessional, and covenantal truths of the Reformation which sought to go back to the sources, or "ad fontes," of the truth: the original manuscripts of the Scriptures. So, Fireside Baptist Church would follow in the line of the historic Baptist confessions of faith. Our history follows in the footsteps of the first Baptist confession of the Waldenses in 1544, the 1st and 2nd LBCF of 1646 and 1689, the Philadelphia Confession of 1742, the New Hampshire Confession of Faith in 1833, the Abstract of Principles in 1858 ... all the way down to the current Baptist Faith and Message 2000. Fireside traces its heritage and identity through these historic traditions.