Church in Tyler, Texas

The long answer to “What do you believe?” is on our What We Believe page, which contains our full statement of faith.

The short answer is that together with all Southern Baptist churches in Tyler TX, we affirm the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message. Being reformed, however, our beliefs are most accurately reflected in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.

The statement of faith IS the official teaching position of the church. As you probably expect, it’s affirmed by all of our pastoral staff and elders.

But full adherence to our statement of faith IS NOT required for church membership. In short, church membership requires faith in the Triune God of the Bible, affirmation of the basic gospel, and the commitment to a life of growth in Christ-likeness.

For more, listen to our sermon audio, read our pastors’ blog, or contact us. We’d love to talk!

Our worship music is driven primarily by its content and secondarily by its style.

In practice, we sing old stuff old style, old stuff new style, and new stuff new style.

That means that everyone in attendance will most likely sing a song or two in a style he/she prefers and the rest in a style that’s not his/her favorite. It reiterates to us individually that “it’s not about me.” And that’s a good thing.

Unless you’re an extrovert extraordinaire, then you’ll almost certainly feel at least a little out of place—at first. After all, when you’re the “newbie,” you’re aware that everyone else seems to know exactly where to go and what to do. Plus, they all seem to know everybody—except you.

But there’s good news—we were all “newbies” at Sylvania at some point. That means (1) we get it and (2) we pushed through the initial awkwardness (and are really glad we did).

And if you show up, we don’t think it will take you long to figure out that we’re (actually) glad you’re with us.

If you decide to join us for Sunday school, enter the double doors under the portico. We’ll help you from there. If you only come for corporate worship, then you can enter under the portico or through the double doors closest to the Loop.

During Sunday school, we have ministries for every age child. During corporate worship, kids age 2-4 have the option to go to children’s church after the musical portion of the service. The nursery (kids under 2 years) is open all morning. But it’s totally fine if you’d rather keep your kids with you during the service.