We are a gospel-centered Baptist church in Simpsonville, SC committed to gospel faithfulness, biblical community, and intentional disciple making.
We make the gospel central.
We pursue gospel faithfulness by making Jesus Christ and His redeeming work for sinners the primary focus of everything we do.
We live in biblical community.
Life is not meant to be lived alone. In fact, Christians are called by God to live in community with one another under the authority of His Word.
THIS SUNDAY AT SSBC - JUNE 1, 2025
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We strongly believe that the most important instrument in the room when we gather is the congregation's voice; therefore, we make intentional decisions about the songs we sing, the instrumentation we use, and the volume of the instrumentalists and singers on stage.
Take a moment to listen, learn, and prepare to sing loudly as we gather to proclaim Christ together!
AM Worship Gathering
There Is One Gospel
His Mercy Is More
Never Cease To Praise
God The Uncreated One
All Glory Be To Christ
PM Worship Gathering
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John 7:1-36
The Unbelief of Jesus’s Brothers
1 After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him. 2 The Jewish Festival of Shelters was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples can see your works that you are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret while he’s seeking public recognition. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.” 5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.)
6 Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it does hate me because I testify about it that its works are evil. 8 Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to this festival, because my time has not yet fully come.” 9 After he had said these things, he stayed in Galilee.
Jesus at the Festival of Shelters
10 After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly. 11 The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ” 12 And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.” 13 Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.
14 When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach. 15 Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned, since he hasn’t been trained? ”
16 Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me. 17 If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own. 18 The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Didn’t Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why are you trying to kill me? ”
20 “You have a demon! ” the crowd responded. “Who is trying to kill you? ”
21 “I performed one work, and you are all amazed,” Jesus answered. 22 “This is why Moses has given you circumcision not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? 24 Stop judging according to outward appearances; rather judge according to righteous judgment.”
The Identity of the Messiah
25 Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill? 26 Yet, look, he’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to him. Can it be true that the authorities know he is the Messiah? 27 But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where he is from.”
28 As he was teaching in the temple, Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me is true. You don’t know him; 29 I know him because I am from him, and he sent me.”
30 Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come. 31 However, many from the crowd believed in him and said, “When the Messiah comes, he won’t perform more signs than this man has done, will he? ” 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent servants to arrest him.
33 Then Jesus said, “I am only with you for a short time. Then I’m going to the one who sent me. 34 You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
35 Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed, among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he? 36 What is this remark he made: ‘You will look for me, and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come’ ? ”
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What's Happening at SSBC
Town Hall Q & A – Topic: Elder-Led congregationalism. Tonight at 5:00 PM in the Sanctuary.
Vacation Bible School – Important dates to know: VBS – June 16-20 (9-12 daily). Craft Days – 31 and June 7 Set-Up – June 13-14. Please prayerfully consider volunteering! In advance. Members are asked to save paper towel rolls as well as any large appliance cardboard boxes you might have (rolls can be brought to church office; please contact Dennis Sessa about large boxes).
Senior Adult Events: Fellowship Breakfast – 8:30 AM on June 5 at Cracker Barrel, Simpsonville. Men’s Breakfast – 8:00 AN on June 10 at Carolina Fine Foods. Low Country Boil – 5:00 PM on June 21. Further details and sign up sheets will be in the Sunday School classrooms.
Parking & Building update
Due to renovation on the main children's ministry hallway, access will be limited to this area.
The double glass doors at the entry to the children's hall will be locked. You will not be able to enter the building through this entrance.
Looking to visit Standing Springs for the first time? View our campus map to find the children's ministry check-in location and guest parking!
- All children’s classrooms have been moved to the gym/fellowship hall building. Please enter the Fellowship Hall entrance for children's check-in. All children (babies-5th grade) will be checked in at the Fellowship Hall.
- After Sunday School and after the service, you will access children's check-out via the stairway past the church offices (2nd-floor hallway), go down to the first floor, exit right to the exterior breezeway past the playgrounds, and into the gym/fellowship hall building to check out your children.
- If you typically park in the lower parking lot, please plan to park in the upper parking lots until the renovation is completed.
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Small Group Bible Studies & Core Classes
Childcare available for infants - K5 + Classes for all ages
Sundays at 9:00am
Donut & Coffee Fellowship
Sundays at 10:00am in the HUB
Morning Worship Gathering
Childcare available for infants - K3
4 & 5 Year Olds dismissed for Bible Study after the music portion of the service
Sundays at 10:30am in the Sanctuary
Evening Prayer & Praise Gathering
Childcare available for infants - K5
Sundays at 5:00pm in the Sanctuary