Live Jesus. Give Jesus.
We believe that the mission of the church is to live like Jesus as serving, difference-making members of our community and to love our community well by sharing the gospel in word and action.
Who We Are
Our Beliefs
What Is the Gospel?
God is super-abundantly rich in grace, mercy, and love.
God sent Jesus Christ to live a life of perfect obedience, to die for our sins, and to be resurrected from the dead, defeating sin and death.
The resurrection of Jesus ushered in His Kingdom, so that repenting and obeying in faith, we might be saved from our sins and reconciled to God.
We are raised, transformed, and propelled by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus.
What To Expect
You are loved and welcomed to join us for worship or Bible study anytime. Know that we are a fellowship of believers in and followers of Jesus Christ.
We are on a journey together to become better reflections of our Savior.
It is our joy to participate in the work God is doing! Come as you are, and we pray you will join us.
What Are the Churches of Christ?
In 1832, a representative of Alexander Campbell’s Disciples movement and a representative of Barton Stone’s Christians movement met one another in Lexington, Kentucky to merge into one united cause that historians now call the Restoration Movement. The Restoration Movement emerged out of the Second Great Awakening, and the goal was to create a unified, ecumenical Christian community to return to the simplistic practices and doctrine of the earliest church. Independently, Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone had become disillusioned with the modern church that was heavily dependent on creeds and tradition; they wanted to retreat to being “simply Christians.”
Over the decades, as the Churches of Christ emerged from this larger movement, we have sometimes succeeded and sometimes failed at that lofty goal. At our heart, though, our goal is to create a church environment that replicates to the degree in which we can the life and worship of the Christian community as it emerged in the gospels, the book of Acts, and the letters of Paul, Peter, John, and others. While there is no formal hierarchy within the Churches of Christ, there are a certain number of practices that are common within this tradition. Most, but not all, Churches of Christ abide by these common practices:
1. Members from within the congregation (elders) act as the leadership for each congregation independently
2. Members from within the congregation, other than paid ministry staff, help to lead and guide the service
3. A cappella singing (without instrumental accompaniment)
4. Weekly Communion (Lord’s Supper)
5. Baptism by immersion for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of the Holy Spirit
Our congregation intends to celebrate our history while focusing on the unifying nature of that original Restoration Movement. We hope that when you experience our congregation, you will find that we are simply Christians.