Our Goal:

Simple. Christian. Fellowship.

What is our goal as a house church fellowship? Our goal is not to grow in “membership” to gain more tithing people to support a fancy building, the newest sound system, and biggest parking lot so that we can become the coolest mega-church. Our goal is not to be popular. In fact, if we believe what Jesus said, we’ll almost certainly be unpopular, especially among our modern culture if we preach the actual gospel of Christ. Our goal is not to fill up your emotional bucket for the week with a superficial lesson preached by a highly paid individual in a snazzy suit and tie. Our goal is not to provide a fancy pew with a stained glass sanctuary so that you can feel like your spiritual checkbox has been completed for the week.

Our goal is to give you the opportunity to experience true, genuine, raw and real Christianity like the first century Christians at Antioch experienced. Christianity that focuses more on fellowship, discipleship, and training in what the Bible says. Our goal is to live lives that provide an example that pagan unbelievers will want to seek after. Our goal is to draw people who call themselves faithful away from false, unbiblical, denominational traditions of “Christianity”. Denominations are not only not supported in the Bible, but they are a divisive concept that we are taught not to practice in the New Testament. Our goal is to show that Jesus and his gospel teaches us that a person should decide to become a disciple and then to be saved and washed free of their sins in baptism. The New Testament does not teach that our forgiveness of sins and salvation occurs except in the act of baptism into Christ. Our goal is to give people who call themselves faithful a chance to call themselves just a Christian without a denominational tradition or man’s name in front of the word “Christian”. What if you escaped from your comfort zone in that comfortable big building with the fancy sign and read the Bible with fresh eyes again to discover actual freedom in Christ? Our goal is to give you that opportunity.

Our Biblical Beliefs

God’s Grace

One of the most difficult concepts as humans to grasp is that we are not saved because of any kind of effort on our part (Ephesians 2:8-9). We believe that God has called us to Him to accept His gift of grace and eternal life with Him and yet this makes us want to work all the more for Him to bring others with us to heaven! We believe that this search for a better knowledge of this concept is what continues to bring us back together again and again. In fact, we believe that the power of what Jesus did for us on the cross will take an eternity in heaven to understand. That’s just how great our God is!

“Tithing”

We don’t require a “collection” or “tithe” from you at our house church. Your time, gas money, food etc. is a way of giving and we appreciate that. We expect you to be responsible for how you spend and give your money as you see fit. If you feel led to give monetarily to support our mission, email us on the contact page!

Elders

Our house church does not follow the modern hierarchical structure of modern churches where people called “elders” have basically become business decision makers and practice very little shepherding of their church family. If you are a man who has the qualities of an elder as described in 1 Timothy, and you believe in the fundamental truth that you and your family were or will be saved by Jesus in the act of baptism, then you are an elder in our church. Elders in our church are not voted in by an unbiblical committee or random voting concept, they are naturally identified by their actions and qualities and organically become shepherds rather than needing to be given a title to stroke their ego. All men in our congregation are encouraged to seek after the qualities of an elder without seeking after the title.

Eschatology

Modern denominations spend an inordinate amount of time being distracted by eschatology, or end-times philosophy. We waste no time discussing these concepts. Jesus is coming back. Heaven and hell exist. That’s as far as we’re going to get into discussing what happens at the end of this age. Jesus has commanded us to be focused on discipling, baptizing, and training everyone we can. Let’s simplify our focus and get to work!