Our History
Sedgefield Baptist Church began in 1975 when Reverend Otis Davis was led by the Lord to begin a church in his home. The church later began meeting Sunday mornings at Sedgefield Country Club before eventually purchasing an upholstery shop building on High Point Rd in 1977. The church renovated and met in that building until 1983 when a new sanctuary was completed on that same lot.
Since then, multiple pastors have served Sedgefield Baptist Church and many families have called it their church home; however, in summer of 2004, the NCDOT made it known that they would need to widen High Point Rd which would eventually require us to relocate. After much prayer and searching, the Lord led us to our current location on Dillon Road in October 2011. The building had previously been occupied by another church group that eventually had to close its doors due to poor attendance. Through divine providence, as it turns out, that building had been originally built back in 2004 when we were first notified of the need to vacate by NCDOT. God is good!
After moving, we updated our name to Dillon Road Baptist Church and have been here ever since. Over time, our membership has aged and many people have simply moved from the area. COVID also took its toll. Now, as we look to re-engage with the community and grow as the Lord leads, we have created this new website as an outreach and information tool. We are glad that it led you to us. We invite you to come be a part of our fellowship and participate in what God is doing here.
What we Believe
There is one and only one living and true God, an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being. He is the Creator, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe, infinite in holiness and all other perfections, to whom we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. He is revealed to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each with distinct personal attributes, but without division of His nature, essence, or being.
Mankind was created by a special act of God in a state of holiness under the law of his Maker, but, through the temptation of Satan, fell from his original holiness and righteousness. As a result, mankind’s posterity has inherited a nature that is corrupt and in bondage to sin and, as such, is under condemnation. Once capable of moral action, we choose to become actual transgressors of God’s law. Yet, the blessings of salvation are offered freely to all by the Gospel: the Son of God, born of a virgin, took our nature upon him, yet did not sin. He honored the divine law by his personal obedience and made atonement for our sins through His death. By God’s grace, He both allows us free agency and sends us His Spirit to draw us to repentance. Being led to repentance, we produce an unfeigned attrition, confess our guilt and helplessness, and place our full reliance upon Jesus as the only and all-sufficient Savior from our sins.
Regeneration is a new birth – a change of heart wrought by the Holy Spirit whereby we become partakers of the divine nature and gain a new disposition that loves and seeks to practice righteousness. It is a work of God’s free grace conditioned upon faith in Christ and made manifest by the fruit which we bring forth to the glory of God. Throughout the earthly life of the regenerate, we should gradually attain to a life that is more Christ-like, progressing toward moral and spiritual perfection. The true born-again believer will endure and continue in well-doing until the end, kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.
The church is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel. Together, we observe the ordinances of Christ, are governed by His laws, and exercise the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in us by His word to extend the gospel to the ends of the earth. We meet together on the first day of the week, the Lord’s Day, to commemorate the resurrection of Christ from the dead and to engage in worship and spiritual devotion.
