Directions | Reformed Baptist Church of Holland

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This image is displayed using the right_off class We are located in West Michigan, not far from the shore of Lake Michigan. Some prominent landmarks surrounding our church are Hope College and Downtown Holland, Lake Macatawa, and Holland State Park on the shore of Lake Michigan.

"Grace grows best in winter."

- Samuel Rutherford
"The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction."

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"God gives burdens, also shoulders."

- Yiddish proverb
"Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord."

- J. I. Packer
"A season of suffering is a small price to pay for a clear view of God."

- Max Lucado
"Millions are merely backseat Christians, . . . but are not willing to consider the possibility of real participation."

- Elton Trueblood
"Life that is too busy for worship is busier than God intended it to be."

- Stuart Holden
"The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for."

- Thomas More
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supplies."

- James Hudson Taylor
"There is no success for the Christian other than being faithful to God's will and call."

- Mark Hatfield

Directions to help you find us

Coming from the South (South Haven/Saugatuck)

Take US-196 North to the first Holland exit. This exit will place you on US-31. Take US-31 to the Lakewood Avenue exit. Turn right (heading West) onto Lakewood. Watch for a KFC restaurant on your right (corner of Beeline and Lakewood). After this intersection, continue on Lakewood. You will soon pass over a railroad crossing and immediately see that the road divides. Lakewood veers to the right, while the road on which you are driving becomes Douglas Avenue. You need to stay on Douglas. The next major intersection is River/Butternut and Douglas. Our church building is about 4/10 mile beyond this intersection on the right hand side.

Coming from the North (Muskegon/Grand Haven/West Olive)

Take US-31 South to the Lakewood Avenue exit. Turn right (heading West) onto Lakewood. Watch for a KFC restaurant on your right (corner of Beeline and Lakewood). After this intersection, continue on Lakewood. You will soon pass over a railroad crossing and immediately see that the road divides. Lakewood veers to the right, while the road on which you are driving becomes Douglas Avenue. You need to stay on Douglas. The next major intersection is River/Butternut and Douglas. Our church building is about 4/10 mile beyond this intersection on the right hand side.

Coming from the East (Grand Rapids/Hudsonville/Zeeland)

Take US-196 West to the Zeeland Exit. This will place you on Business 196 (sometimes called "Chicago Drive" by older locals). This road has a median. Stay on this road until you reach 112th Street. Landmarks visible at or near this intersection include a Saturn auto dealership, a Toyota dealership, a Walgreens drug store and a small strip mall. Turn right at 112th. Almost immediately you will come to another intersection. Walgreens will set to your left side as you approach this intersection. This is 112th and Lakewood Avenue. Turn left onto Lakewood. Stay on Lakewood. You will drive under an overpass (US-31), and alongside a railroad and several shops. Watch for a KFC restaurant on your right (corner of Beeline and Lakewood). After this intersection, continue on Lakewood. You will soon pass over a railroad crossing and immediately see that the road divides. Lakewood veers to the right, while the road on which you are driving becomes Douglas Avenue. You need to stay on Douglas. The next major intersection is River/Butternut and Douglas. Our church building is about 4/10 mile beyond this intersection on the right hand side.

Coming from the West (Holland State Park)

Take Ottawa Beach Road, heading East. Ottawa Beach Road becomes Douglas Avenue. After the Ottawa County Fairgrounds and Van Wieren's Hardware, watch for our church building to the left. Big white pillars and red bricks.

Are you frustrated by baffling problems? Perhaps we can help. We offer counseling services to the members of our community--at no cost to you. To learn more, please call us at one of these phone numbers:

Just before, during or immediately after worship hours: 616-355-6449

At all other times: 616-875-2181 or 616-399-3828

Communion . . .

"I believe in the communion of saints."
-Apostles' Creed

THESE WORDS WERE WRITTEN into the creed about the middle of the fifth century.

It would be difficult if not altogether impossible for us at this late date to know exactly what was in the minds of the Church Fathers who introduced the words into the creed, but in the Book of Acts we have a description of the first Christian communion: "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers."

Here is the original apostolic fellowship, the pattern after which every true Christian communion must be modelled.

The word "fellowship," in spite of its abuses, is still a beautiful and meaningful word. When rightly understood it means the same as the word "communion," that is, the act and condition of sharing together in some common blessing by numbers of persons. The communion of saints, then, means an intimate and loving sharing together of certain spiritual blessings by persons who are on an equal footing before the blessing in which they share. This fellowship must include every member of the Church of God from Pentecost to this present moment and on to the end of the age.

Now, before there can be communion there must be union. The sharers are one in a sense altogether above organization, nationality, race or denomination. That oneness is a divine thing, achieved by the Holy Spirit in the act of regeneration. Whoever is born of God is one with everyone else who is born of God. Just as gold is always gold, wherever and in whatever shape it is found, and every detached scrap of gold belongs to the true family and is composed of the same element, so every regenerate soul belongs to the universal Christian community and to the fellowship of the saints.

Every redeemed soul is born out of the same spiritual life as every other redeemed soul and partakes of the divine nature in exactly the same manner. Each one is thus made a member of the Christian community and a sharer in everything which that community enjoys. This is the true communion of saints. But to know this is not enough. If we would enter into the power of it we must exercise ourselves in this truth; we must practice thinking and praying with the thought that we are members of the Body of Christ and brothers to all the ransomed saints living and dead who have believed on Christ and acknowledged Him as Lord.

We have said that the communion of saints is a fellowship, a sharing in certain divinely given things by divinely called persons. Now, what are those things?

To read more from this writing by A.W. Tozer, click here.

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