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Seven Churches of Revelation

In a culture that is increasingly hostile to the Christian faith, people often ask if the Bible is still relevant for today? Is God still speaking? Of course He is. The real question is: Are we listening? Imagine if our church received a letter from Jesus Himself. What would He say about our love for God? Endurance in trials? Faithful service? Would His words bring commendation… or condemnation?

 

We do, in fact, have such a letter. In Revelation, the last book of the Bible, Jesus’ words to 7 churches are as relevant & today as they were in the 1st century. In this 7-week series– Seven Churches of Revelation — we’ll read Jesus’ 7 letters to 7 churches and

learn how to experience God’s blessing and serve Him effectively in a culture that’s increasingly hostile to faith.

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To spark discussion with your MBC Small Group we have a Study Guide to help you follow along with the sermons. These are available in the lobby for $5 each, payable in cash, check (made out to MBC), or via Pushpay using the link above (recommended). 

If using Pushpay, when you complete your purchase you will receive a message “thanking you for your purchase“. Please show this receipt as proof of purchase when you pick up your guide.

 

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Shuttle Service from the Chabad

Starting 9/7/25 our weekly shuttle service will be back in action! We hope you’ll TAKE ADVANTAGE of our shuttle rewards program this fall!

Sermon Series: At the Movies

At the Movies. A sermon series that explores bold biblical themes through the lens of current popular moves.

A Sermon Series on Sharing your faith in your own backyard.

MBC’s At The Movies sermon series explores bold biblical themes through the lens of current popular moves: sacrifice, resurrection, identity, reality, and God’s desire to welcome you into His Kingdom community. Spread the word and don’t miss out on this exciting series at MBC!

Recommended companion reading:

  ·        The 9 arts of spiritual conversations

·         Out of the Salt Shaker

·        Honest Evangelism

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Salt Light and Barbecue Sauce

Salt Light & Barbecue Sauce. Building a longer table, not a higher fence.

A Sermon Series on Sharing your faith in your own backyard.

How do you share your faith in a natural setting? You’re not a high pressured sales person and you don’t want to get into a religious debate, you just want to be obedient to the Lord. Why is it that sharing our faith can feel scary or awkward? How do you open up spiritual conversations? Imagine you are having a BBQ and you have invited non-Christians to your home. You are sharing your gift of hospitality but would also like to talk to them about the most important thing in your life – the gospel. This series will break down the process in simple steps and equip you to be able to open up a dialogue with those you know about the gospel. Be equipped and encouraged through this exciting new series on personal evangelism.

Recommended companion reading:

  ·        The 9 arts of spiritual conversations

·         Out of the Salt Shaker

·        Honest Evangelism

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Take MBC with you

We are very excited to roll out our new MBC app! 

The Church isn’t a building – it’s people! We want to make sure that everyone can experience the MBC community and stay connected whenever they want.

Our app will expand the way we connect with both new individuals checking us out and those who call MBC their home. Its primary features keep you connected with information and personalized notifications to our various ministries, Sunday morning Live Stream, sermon archives, our podcast, giving access, and up-to-date information on our community activities and events. As a bonus, we also added the Bible for your convenience during the sermons or whenever you desire to connect with the Word of God.

 

There are three ways to get our app:

1. From your cell phone, text: “mbcnj app” to (833) 683-6726 and a link for direct download will be immediately sent;

2. Or search for Millington Baptist Church on  or .

3. On your computer, you can go here to get the app sent to your phone.

 

Once you download it, please go to your app store and leave a great review to help others find it easier.

If you have attended our church for any period of time, then you know our mission is to expand the table for the glory of God and to be fully devoted to Christ, our church body and the community around us. This app is merely a small expression of our desire to make those connections and grow the body of Christ.

Stay tuned as new features will be added over time.

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Worship

Worship | Our weekly Sunday service is the heart of our community. Regular shared time together in worship and fellowship unites us in purpose and encourages our shared vision. Dynamic worship and a rotation of teachers stimulates learning while fostering community. Our desire is to foster a joyful experience! We seek to engage the worshiper in a vibrant, interactive, and Spirit-filled encounter unto our Lord and Savior! Our goal is to make our worship time a life transforming experience that creates fertile soil for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that moves us into resounding praise!

Sunday Services and Special Events:

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Would you like to be a part of our Worship Team community?
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Our worship services are intended to nurture a love for God and each other, to encourage personal Renewal, Growth, Connection & Action within our community.

We believe we were made to worship the Triune God of Scripture. We also believe God deserves our best. Our worship and a/v teams have the opportunity to engage and direct our church family through heartfelt, corporate worship music and excellent service execution. Our goal is to glorify God through well-crafted services, high quality visual and media, and a progressive traditional style of music which incorporates both modernized traditional worship music and theologically rich songs chosen from the best of what is written today.

Questions?

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John Bonaventura

Director of Worship

Contact John with any questions

Questions?

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John Bonaventura

Director of Worship

Contact John with any questions

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Baptisms

Baptism

Come and worship with our brothers and sisters as they make this profound commitment to the Lord. Witness new life as revealed by the cleansing power of Christ.

 

If you have not been baptized since becoming a follower of Jesus and would like to learn more about it, you may pick up a Baptism Packet at the Welcome Center,  or contact Pastor Dave for more information.

 

Celebrating New Life | Baptism is a public profession of faith in Christ. We subscribe to baptism by immersion during our worship service as it vividly depicts the reality of new life in Christ.

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Why? We are called to be baptized as an outward symbol of the internal reality already taken place in our new life in Christ. Baptism uniquely symbolizes the believer’s union with Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection (Rom. 6:3-5). 

How does baptism relate to salvation? Baptism is not a means to salvation; this comes through faith in Jesus and the gift of God’s extravagant grace (Eph. 2:8-9; Gal. 2:16). However, baptism plays a vital role in our first act of commitment and profession of our faith in Christ.

Who should be baptized?  We practice believer’s baptism (Acts 2:38, 8:12). For the purposes of MBC Membership, If you were baptized as an infant, we would ask that you be baptized as a mindful believer.

When should my children be baptized?
While we want to celebrate our children when they desire to take important steps of faith, we believe it is wise to wait to baptize a child until he or she has reached a certain level of maturity. Therefore, generally we offer the guidance of encouraging our children to wait until at least twelve years old to make this important decision. While we are willing to discuss exceptions to this general rule, we do believe this position esteems baptism as a one-time act to be anticipated as a public, credible, mature profession of faith. Any questions please speak to one of our pastors. And for more information here is a related article. You can also read our church guidance for Children and Ordinances by downloading it here.

 

A candidate for baptism should be able to:  

  • Communicate the gospel as well as an expression of faith in Jesus Christ.
  • Show evidence of godly sorrow over sin and repentance which leads to the fruit of the Spirit. (Gal 5:22-23)
  • Demonstrate a willingness to turn away from worldly things and live a life abiding and celebrating God’s commands, His testimony about his Son Jesus and loving others as God loves us. (1 John 2:15-17; 5:1-12, Matt. 22:37-39).

How do I give my baptism testimony? On the day of your baptism you are asked to give a testimony to affirm your faith in Jesus. Then you will be lowered into then back out of the water by the pastor. Video testimonies are preferred.

  • Please make an appointment to have us video your testimony in advance.
  • To prepare, please write out your answers to these questions and rehearse them for your video testimony.
  • For your convenience please utilize the following testimony worksheet as a guide to help build your testimony for the service.

Our baptism services are intended to publicly celebrate personal Renewal & Growth in Jesus Christ and spur on Connection & Action within community.

Questions?

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Dave Hentschel

Lead Pastor: Preaching,
Spiritual Formation & Care

Contact Dave with any questions
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Act

WE'RE SAVING YOU A SEAT

Family on Mission; Locally and Globally | As a family on mission we seek to be salt and light in our community and the world. We are committed to facilitating efforts that equip and empower the unreached and unwanted by collectively putting our faith into action. Through various family- and mission-based engagements, and partnering with regional and global initiatives, we actively seek opportunities to come alongside the hurting, disconnected, and those in need of aid to bring about cultural renewal for the glory of God. Pastor Bob Erbig unpacks this vital aspect to our faith in his sermon below.

Below are various ministries where you can ENGAGE in our community for purposeful Growth and Connection. 

Local, regional and international cultural engagement | Contact

Mobile resource centers to help the poor and homeless for NYC and NJ |  Contact

Senior Luncheon: The third Friday of each month from October to May |  Contact

Trunk or Treat: Community-wide family event |  Contact

Ministering to the homeless and hopeless in northern NJ |  Contact

Easter Egg Hunt: Community directed initiative to bring joy to local families | Contact

 Creating economic transportation options for people in need |  Website

Summer Adventure: Vacation Bible School | Contact

Christmas musical theatre program for children in grades 2-8 |  Contact

Charter Day: Community-sponsored event where we engage with our neighbors | Contact

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Priority Statement: 
Our goal is that young families will be the fastest growing segment of our church body with a special focus on OUTREACH to the local community.

  • Strategy 1: Establish innovative young family programming designed by and for young families.

  • Strategy 2: Create targeted programming that matches our local community’s demographics.

  • Strategy 3: Creatively come alongside our local community leaders to meet their needs and encourage those concerned with cultural renewal.

Grow

WE'RE SAVING YOU A SEAT

Priority One: Growing together.

MBC is excited about growing together as a family by sharing our lives and learning experiences. We encourage authentic inward, outward and upward growth so we may become part of each other’s emerging stories. Pastor Dave Hentschel unpacks this vital aspect to our faith in his sermon below. 

Below are various ministries where you can ENGAGE in our community for purposeful Growth and Connection. 

Building relationships are a key to the learning process | Contact

Exploring intersections of faith, work & relationships | Contact

Serving families with preschool children | Contact

Childcare & education from birth – 6th grade | Sundays, 9 & 10:30am | Contact
Meets quarterly for fellowship and breakfast | Contact
Monthly initiative targeting 5th and 6th grade children | Contact
Meet 1st & 3rd Sunday of every month, 5:30-7:30pm | Contact
Courageous conversations at the intersection of faith & culture | Contact
7th-12th grade | The Break–Wednesdays, 7-8:30pm, Rush Hour–Sundays, 9am in the lower level of the YFMB | Contact

Morning Break–Tuesdays, 9:15am | The Evening Edition–Tuesdays, 7pm | Contact

Music Camp: A summer week of music & drama for children in grades 2-8 | Contact

Alternating Sunday mornings programming for 5th and 6th grade children | Contact
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Priority Statement: 
We desire to see 100% of members and regular attenders ENGAGED in one or more of our varied and vibrant spiritual growth or service ministries. 

  • Strategy 1: Grow wider in our number of those committed to serve by creating a culture with an abundance of volunteers for each ministry program.

  • Strategy 2: Grow in our stewardship by becoming a fully resourced church.

  • Strategy 3: Grow deeper in our faith by cultivating biblically based, relationally driven environments where the spiritual formation process can flourish.

Renew

WE'RE SAVING YOU A SEAT

Living the life we should live.

We believe | The Bible is the story of God renewing our world. Theologians speak of this as the great story, with a narrative arc consisting of four major parts in redemption history: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and finally, Restoration.

The first book in the Bible is Genesis, and it says that God created the world and it was good (Gen 1:31). And there he created a man and a woman, and placed them in a garden called Eden. There they were to be fruitful and multiply, and to partner with God in caring for this world, and the presence of the glory of God was there with them … until sin came into the world …   

The tragedy of the Bible is called the Fall, that moment when mankind rebelled against God and His right to govern and rule over their lives. Since this moment, all of creation has fallen into sin and is desperate and groaning for things to go back to the way they were supposed to be and awaits its promised liberation from bondage (Romans 8:19), until the promised redeemer would come… 

In the fullness of time, God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to live the life we should have lived and to die the death we deserved. He died as a substitute on the cross for our sins, and then rose victoriously over the grave. He then gave his followers a commission to proclaim this Gospel (good news). The message of the Gospel is the message of God’s grace, mercy and the forgiveness of sins for all who believe. But this is not the end of the story… 

The testimony of the Bible is that God has every intention of renewing and restoring this world to a glory surpassing what it had at first. (Eph 3:20-21; Haggai 2:9) Jesus taught his disciples about the coming “renewal of all things.” (Matt 19:28). This may seem strange at first, because some Christians believe God will abandon this world and wisk them away to a spiritual heaven as they live in a sort of disembodied state in the presence of God. While there is some truth to this reality, this is incomplete and not the whole Gospel. New Testament scholar N.T. Wright says our ultimate hope is not life after death, but life after life after death. (*N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.)

 

This is because our final destination as God’s people is not as disembodied spirits in heaven, this state described in 2 Corinthians 5 is a merely a transitional period and is spoken of as a temporary dwelling while we wait for our earth’s renewal and our bodily resurrection. Our final destination is a renewed and restored world with resurrected bodies living with God who dwells among His people (Rev 21-22). This is why the good news is so good. We find that to be very exciting! 

So what do we do now? Now we wait and we work. We work toward cultural renewal as we live in the tension of the already and not yet. In his book Generous Justice Tim Keller teaches that the church has a twofold mission in the world 1) to preach the gospel 2) to do justice which involves social and cultural transformation and renewal. James chapter 1 says true religion teaches us that we are to look after the widow and the orphan (which means to “advocate” for), and the book of Galatians tells us the early church was eager to remembering the poor (Gal 2:10).

We must resist two opposite temptations 1) Withdrawal, saying it’s not the job of Christians to try to mend the world and 2) Triumphalism, saying Christians ought to take power and make society the way it should be through force. Instead, we believe the Gospel gives us a third way, Engaging the culture w the Gospel and our faithful presence for the sake of cultural renewal and transformation.

We believe | God sends the Christian into the culture to live as Timothy Keller puts it, “with Christian distinctiveness,” intentionally walking out the implications of the gospel in each arena or role in life. We are to be agents of renewal and restoration. Jesus said to “Let your good deeds shine for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly father” (Matt 5:16). We do good, and we wait for the one who has promised us, “Behold, I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5).  

*N.T. Wright, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church.

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