About Us
East Side Free Will Baptist Church
LOCATED AT
704 Siam Road, Elizabethton, TN 37643 Phone: 423-543-3454
SUNDAY SERVICES:
10:00 AM Sunday School
11:00 AM Worship
6:00 PM Sunday Evening Service
WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY & PRAYER:
7:00 PM Women’s & Men’s Bible Study, Teen, and Patch the Pirate(Kids) meetings.
Pastor: Rev.Justin Deaton
Local Radio Ministry
Kenny Lethcoe can be heard every Sunday morning at 7:30AM on WBEJ, 107.9 FM and 1240 AM, Elizabethton.
Preacher Deaton can be heard at 8:30AM on the same station.
Meet our Pastor
Rev. Justin Deaton
Hello, my name is Justin Deaton the pastor of East Side Freewill Baptist church. It has been my privilege to pastor this loving and friendly church since January 2009. I was born in Mountain city, TN in 1970. The son of a Freewill Baptist preacher. After spending my first 5 years in Mountain City my father was called to pastor in Greeneville, TN after 2 years he then was called to Marion, NC were I received Christ as my personal savior at the age of 9. After 4 years there he came to Johnson City, TN and there remained for 17 years. We moved to Elizabethton, TN when I was 15 and I have called it home ever since. My mother was a school teacher here in Carter County and retired after 30 years.
I am a graduate of Happy Valley High School and East Tennessee State University. In December of 1989 I married my beloved wife Tina Carr who has been by my side ever since. I started teaching Sunday school at the age of 14 and became youth pastor at First Freewill Baptist of Johnson City where I served for 7 years under Pastor Kenneth Grindstaff. During that time I announced my calling to preach, and Tina and I welcomed the births of our two sons Austin and Landon. In 2004 I received the call and opportunity to pastor my first church in Marion, NC were my father pastored previously. In 2009 I returned to pastor here at Eastside. God has been very good to me and my family and Christ has led and directed me throughout my life always watching after us and opening doors.
My favorite verse is Revelation 3:20 with “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock” being my favorite statement. Christ stands knocking at the door of every heart and my prayer is that you will let him in.
What We Believe.
The Holy Scriptures
We believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the verbally and plenary-inspired Word of God. The Scriptures are inerrant, infallible, and God-breathed, and therefore are the final authority for faith and life. The sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament are the complete and divine revelation of God to Man. The scriptures shall be interpreted according to their normal grammatical-historical meaning. The King James Version of the Bible shall be the official and only translation used by this church. (II Timothy 3:16-17; and II Peter 1:20-21).
Dispensationalism
We believe that the Scriptures, interpreted in their natural, literal sense, reveal divinely determined dispensations or rules of life that define man’s responsibilities in successive ages. These dispensations are not ways of salvation, but rather are divinely ordered stewardships by which God directs man according to His purpose. Three of these dispensations – the law, the church, and the kingdom….. are the subjects of detailed revelation in Scripture (Genesis 1:28; I Corinthians 9:17; Galatians 3:13-25; II Corinthians 3:9-18; Ephesians 1:10, 3:2-10; Colossians 1:24-25; Revelations 20:2-6)
The Godhead
We believe in one Triune God, eternally, existing in three persons…Father, Son, and Holy Spirit…each co-eternal in being, co-identical in nature, co-equal in power and glory, and having the same attributes and perfections (Deuteronomy 6:4; Matthew 28:19; John 14:10, 26; and II Corinthians 13:14)
The Person and Work of Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, became man without ceasing to be God, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary so that He might reveal God and redeem sinful men (Isaiah 7:14, 9:6; Luke 1:35; John 1:1-2, 14; II Corinthians 5:19-21; Galatians 4:4-5; Philippians 2:5-8).
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplished our redemption through his death on the cross as a representative, vicarious, substitutionary sacrifice; and that our justification is made sure by His literal, physical resurrection from the dead (Acts 2:18-36; Romans 3:24-25; I Peter 2:24; Ephesians 1:7)
We believe that the Lord Jesus ascended to Heaven, and is now exalted at the right hand of God, where as our High Priest He fulfils the ministry of Representative, Intercessor, and Advocate (Acts 1:9-10; Hebrews 9:24, 7:25; Romans 8:34; I John 2:1-2)
The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person who convicts the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment; and that He is the Supernatural Agent in regeneration, baptizing all believers into the body of Christ indwelling and sealing them unto the day of redemption(John 16:8-11; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 12:12-14; II Corinthians 3:6; Ephesians 1:13-14).
We believe that He is the Divine Teacher who assists believers to understand and appropriate the Scriptures and that it is the privilege and duty of all the saved to be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 1:17-18; I John 2:20, 27).
We believe that God is sovereign in the bestowal of spiritual gifts to every believer. God uniquely uses evangelists, pastors and teachers to equip believers in the assembly in order that they can do the work of the ministry (Romans 12:3-8; I Corinthians 12:4-11, 28; Ephesians 4:7-12).
We believe that the sign gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as speaking in tongues and the gift of healing were temporary. We believe that speaking in tongues was never the common or necessary sign of the baptism or filling of the Holy Spirit and that ultimate deliverance of the body from sickness or death awaits the consummation of our salvation in the resurrection though God frequently chooses to answer the prayers of believers for physical healing (I Corinthians 1:22, 13:8, 14:21-22)
The Total Depravity of Man
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God, but that in Adam’s sin the human race fell, inherited a sinful nature and became alienated from God; and that man is totally depraved and of himself utterly unable to remedy his lost condition (Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 3:22-23, 5:12, 6:23; Ephesians 2:1-3, 4:17-19)
Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God brought to man by grace and received by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Whose precious blood was shed on Calvary for the forgiveness of our sins (John 1:12; Ephesians 1:7, 2:8-10; I Peter 1:18-19)