We exist to experience and extend the grace of Jesus Christ in Gainesville, Florida.  

Beliefs of Christ Community Church

Centrality of the Gospel...

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Affiliation with the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

Christ Community Church exists to make a visible difference in the quality of life of Gainesville. We are here neither to encourage people to transfer from other churches nor to merely meet the needs of our own people.  We want to see Gainesville become more and more a place where Jesus Christ is known, cherished, and served.

Our name comes from two beliefs:

• That God has created people to share life together in community.
• That people cannot reach their fullest potential unless they enjoy a relationship with God and know Him personally.

To all who are spiritually weary and seek rest; to all who mourn and long for comfort; to all who struggle and desire victory; to all who sin and need a Savior; to all who are strangers and want to belong; to all who hunger and thirst after righteousness; and to all who will come, this church opens wide her arms and offers welcome in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Our Philosophy of Worship

1. GOD-CENTEREDNESS -

A high priority of the vertical focus of our Sunday morning service. The ultimate aim is to so experience God, that He is glorified in our affections.

2. EXPECTING THE POWERFUL PRESENCE OF GOD -

We do not just direct ourselves toward Him. We earnestly seek His drawing near according to the promise of James 4:8.
We believe that in worship God draws near to us in power, and makes Himself known and felt for our good and for the salvation of unbelievers in the midst.

3. BIBLE-BASED AND BIBLE-SATURATED -

The content of our singing and praying and welcoming and preaching and poetry will always conform to the truth of Scripture. The content of God's Word will be woven through all we do in worship and will be the ground of all our appeal to authority.

4. HEAD AND HEART -

Worship that aims at kindling and carrying deep, strong, real emotions toward God, but does not manipulate people's emotions by failing to appeal to clear thinking about spiritual things based on shareable evidences outside ourselves.