History

A New Work Begun

Pastor David Sorenson founded Northstar Baptist Church in 1989. Though he had been enjoying a happy pastorate in Florida, the Lord clearly laid upon his heart to resign his solid position and secure income to come by faith to Duluth, Minnesota, his wife's childhood hometown, to begin a new, fundamental Baptist church.

There certainly were other Baptist churches in this city, but at that time there was no church within the city limits of Duluth which was fundamental in both doctrine and practice.

Pastor Sorenson saw the need for a separated, soul-winning, independent, fundamental Baptist church so he yielded to God's call, came to Duluth and started the church.

Facilities

In 1992, Northstar Baptist Church built a new church building on 10 wooded acres of land located near the intersection of Trinity Road (US 53) and South Arlington Avenue (County 90).

Over the past 10 years, the building has been nicely finished and upgraded to provide adequate, comfortable, and handsome facilities for church activities.

On Separation

From its beginning, Northstar Baptist Church has upheld strong standards of separation from sin and the world (1 John 2:16-17).

We at Northstar Baptist Church believe that our separation from sin and the world extends especially to our music, a vital part of our worship to God. For this reason, we enthusiastically sing and perform vibrant, conservative, traditional, Christian music. We reject contemporary Christian music (CCM) or "Christian rock" as compromise between God's music and the world's music (Ephesians 5:18b-19).

Our church is not charismatic and will not participate in the charismatic movement in any way (1 Corinthians 13:8-10).

Furthermore, our church adamantly opposes the ecumenical philosophy and strongly adheres to a position of ecclesiastical separation.

Northstar Baptist Church is completely independent, having no organizational or corporate connections to any convention, conference, or formal association of churches. We believe this is closest to the New Testament example and provides considerable liberty and freedom for the administration of the church's various ministries.

On the other hand, Northstar Baptist Church freely fellowships with other churches of like faith and practice across the region and throughout the United States. Across America, there are literally thousands of completely independent Baptist churches who network and fellowship together in common cause for Christ.

Evangelism

The church has from its earliest days been committed to the fulfillment of the Great Commission of our Lord, both at home and abroad.

The Great Commission, we believe, involves both the evangelization of non-believers, and the discipleship of new converts. According to Jesus Himself, this is the primary mission of the church on earth (Matthew 28:18-20).

Northstar Baptist Church does not evangelize in order to survive and grow. Rather, we survive and grow in order to evangelize. This is the license and purpose for our existence. Accordingly, the primary focal point of this church is the winning of others to Christ and their discipleship.

In addition, the church has a strong faith-promise mission's ministry, supporting several dozen missionaries around the globe.