Our Vision
Central Christian Church seeks to be a body of disciples who bring glory to God in all things according to Scripture – worshiping him, equipping His people, and evangelizing the world – as we eagerly anticipate the restoration of heaven and earth under one head, Christ the king.
Our Mission
A family that loves God, knows God, loves people, and makes disciples of all nations.
Core Values
Abiding
No eternal fruit can be born apart from the work of Christ through His spirit in us as His people. We must abide in His love, abide in His grace, abide in His body, abide in His power.
Practically…
- Prayer
- Consistency in the word
- Rest in His righteousness
- Stillness
- Community
- Faith
- Scripture memorization
Knowing
This is a multifaceted pursuit of growth in doctrinal and theological knowledge never divorced from the requirement of experience through walking in a manner worthy of the gospel empowered by the Spirit.
Practically…
- Biblically centered preaching and teaching in worship gatherings, gospel life classes, House Churches, and ministries of CCC.
- Seeing maturity not based on intellect but on an ever-shrinking gap between what we know and what we do.
- Systematic, exegetical, and theological approach to discipleship from kids to adults. Understanding the outcomes for each.
Being
Holistically follow Christ, adopting His purpose, heart, view of the world/sin, and emulating his example, in a self-sacrificing way as we adopt a likeness to Him in every way which leads us to and experience of, and a hope for, attaining the abundant life He promised.
Practically…
- Bearing His name and image
- Bearing His reign in every sphere of life
- Bearing faithful witness
- Joining in the suffering of Jesus
- The “one another’s”
- Church discipline
- Hospitality
- Repentance
- Support and counsel
- Cultural understanding
- Biblical Worldview: Who are we? Where are we? What’s wrong? What’s the remedy?
Going
The outworking fruit of being the people of God as we seek to see His redeeming work permeate every area of culture seeking to right that which has been made wrong by sin as we proclaim the good news! It is taking the “good news” and proclaiming it to the ends of the earth hastening the day of Christ’s return.
Practically…
- Intentionally Missional
- Sacrificial
- Seek to break down the compartments of our lives, no sacred and secular divide
- No less than 10% of our budget dedicated to missional activity
- Train and develop missionaries; local and international
- Equip people to address the challenges to faith
- Adopt an “as you go” mentality
- Everyone a missionary
8 Point Statement of Faith
We Believe the Bible to be the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 3:15-16; Isaiah 55:11)
We Believe there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. (John 1:1; 2 Corinthians 13:14: Mark 1:9-10; John 17:20-23)
We Believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, atoning death on the cross, bodily resurrection, bodily ascension into heaven, and His personal return once again in power and glory. (John 5:18; Matthew 1:18-23; Mark 2:5-12; John 1:29; Acts 1:8-10)
We Believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential. That salvation cannot be gained by human effort, but only through God’s grace in the redemption He provided in Jesus Christ, a redemption which is responded to by faith and which leads to a life devoted to obeying God. (Titus 3:3-7; Ephesians 2:8-10; Acts 4:12)
We Believe that repentant believers in Christ should be baptized in water, by immersion (the Biblical form of baptism), in obedience to Christ. (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 2:36-41; Galatians 3:27-28; Colossians 2:12-15)
We Believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life. (Acts 1:15-16; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 8:26-27)
We Believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation. (John 5:27-29; Hebrews 9:27; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
We Believe that, because all believers are spiritually united in the Lord Jesus Christ, we should cooperate in all possible ways in God’s work with our fellow believers, both those among us and elsewhere, loving and being patient with one another in our differences. (Galatians 3:26-28; 1 Corinthians 12:12-13; Ephesians 2:14-22)