About us
We are a congregation of those called out of darkness (1 Peter 2:9) and sanctified in Christ Jesus. (1 Corinthians 1:2)
As such we assemble regularly as authorized to commemorate the death of our Lord. (1 Corinthians 11:24-26)
We are reverent before God as we worship in song, prayer, partaking of the Lord's Supper, giving of our means, and hearing the word of God preached as was done by Christians during New Testament times.
WE ARE NOT JUST ANOTHER DENOMINATION
We are non-denominational, we wear no other name than Christ's, and we are known simply as Christians, members of the body of Christ (Acts 11:26; Ephesians 1:22-23). We refer to ourselves collectively as the church of Christ, the Lord's church, or some other scriptural description to identify ourselves as the saved people belonging to Christ
(Ephesians 5:23).
WE STRIVE TO BE THE SAME CHURCH DESCRIBED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
It is our purpose to be identified with the Christians of the first century. We believe this to be possible to all who will learn, believe, and be guided by the plain teaching of God's word. When Jesus declared such to be "The seed of the kingdom" (Luke 8:11), He was emphasizing a known fact of nature that specific kinds of seed, when planted, will always produce after their kind. For example, wheat will always produce wheat. In like manner the word of God, when planted in the hearts of honest people, and obeyed, will produce Christians just as it did in the first century ...nothing more, and nothing less.
WE HAVE NO HUMAN CREED
There is no man, or group of men, who legislate for the church. We have no one to answer to but Christ. He is the head of the church (Colossians 1:18), which leaves no room for any human head. As was true in the first century, so also there is no intercongregational organization, but rather independent congregations in different locations with Christ as Lord and Master.
THE BIBLE IS OUR ONLY BOOK OF RULES
We have no man-written creed books to follow. We are governed in faith and conduct by the Bible alone. While recognizing the guiding principles of the Old Testament, we seek to conform to the rules and patterns of the New Testament (Hebrews 1:1-2; II Peter 3:11). We accept the Bible as being both verbally inspired and infallible in content (II Peter 1:20-21; I Corinthians 2:11-13). Consequently, when the Bible speaks upon any given subject, its pronouncement is accepted as final. By its own testimony, no one may with impunity alter a single word of it (Deuteronomy 4:2; Proverbs 30:6; Revelation 22:18-19).
WHAT IS AT OUR ASSEMBLIES?
SINGING
The entire assembly joins in singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.
(Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16).
PRAYER
The congregation is led in prayer by men in the assembly. We pray, not only to praise and thank God, but also to ask for our needs and the needs of others to be met (I Timothy 2:1-4).
PREACHING
The lessons and sermons are designed to teach God's word so as to encourage compliance by those who listen.
THE LORD'S SUPPER
Like the church in the time the New Testament was written, we partake of the Lord's Supper each first day of the week (Acts 20:7). The supper consists of unleavened bread and fruit of the vine as memorials of the body and blood of Jesus (I Corinthians 11:20-36).
GIVING AS WE PROSPER
(I Corinthians 16:1-2).
WHO ARE WE THEN?
We are a group of God fearing men and women, young and old, who have formed and constitute a congregation such as those described in the New Testament. We are simply Christians (Acts 11:26; 26:28; I Peter 4:15-16), followers of Christ. We comprise a church which is "of Christ" (Romans 16:16).