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Richmond's First Baptist Church is a unique congregation where people from diverse cultural, ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds join together to put God’s love in action. All find a home in our church with opportunities for spiritual growth, fellowship, and service.

Our people celebrate and draw strength from our diversity, which finds its unity in the Lord Jesus Christ. We embrace an international perspective with more than ten different languages spoken among our members. Men and women serve as deacons and as ordained staff in leading services and preaching sermons.

Apr 9, 2017

Jim Somerville: "Is it just me, or does it seem that things have been shifting in this country? That we've moved from the cultural accommodation of Christianity during the churchgoing boom, to a kind of cultural indifference to Christianity in the past few decades, and now, more and more, to a cultural opposition to it? There are people who seem to think that Christians, and Christianity, are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Some people seem to think the country would be better off without us..."

The sixth in Dr. Jim Somerville's Lenten sermon series, "Everything Must Change", from Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017.