Ecclesial Identity and Denominational Heritage of the Ministry
Question: What church do you guys belong to, Randy?
I serve as pastor of the Taos First Baptist Church in Taos, New Mexico, which I often describe as "America's greatest tiny church." The congregation has a Baptist heritage, as the name indicates, and I personally come from a Baptist background.
At the same time, neither I nor the congregation view ourselves as bound to Baptist tradition as an identity marker in the strong, sectarian sense. We are not aiming to be "Baptist born and Baptist bred and when we're gone, we'll be Baptist dead." Our focus is to be a Bible-believing, Bible-teaching local assembly.
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The emphasis of the church, and of my broader work, is on a literal, grammatical-historical reading of Scripture with a right-dividing, dispensational approach. The goal is simply to ask, "What does the Bible actually say and teach?" and to build doctrine and practice from that.
The online work associated with my name operates under Randy White Ministries. That is not a separate church; it is an online teaching ministry. People who participate in the broadcasts and studies come from many different backgrounds: various churches and denominations, no denominations, or even no current church affiliation at all. What tends to unite this audience is a shared love for the Lord, a high regard for Scripture, and a preference for careful, literal Bible study rather than tradition-driven theology.
So, in brief: I pastor a small Baptist-rooted but Bible-focused church in Taos, and the online ministry serves a broader, mixed-denominational audience committed to serious study of the Scriptures.
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