What Kind of Church is This?

 

Since there is no shortage of Churches, why do we believe you should make Orcutt Christian Church your Church home?  What Kind of Church is this?

 

1.  We are a Christian Church.  Our message is “Jesus is the Christ, the Son of The Living God.”  We require no other creed than this one.  He alone is Lord and Savior.

 

2.  We are a Church of Christ.  The Church belongs to Him.  We have no authority to change the teachings, rewrite the rules, offer altered membership requirements or usurp His authority.

 

3.  We are a Church Seeking Unity.  We seek to be one in Christ with all others whom He calls His own.

 

4.  We are a Church seeking “Restoration.”  As much as possible we are trying to imitate the New Testament precedents.  That is why our baptism is by  immersion, our communion is every Lord’s Day, our leaders are called Elders, our preaching is about Christ, our prayers are in Christ’s name.  Even our Church name is an attempt to imitate the earliest disciples who were called Christians first at Antioch.

 

5.  We are a Thinking Church.  The Christian faith demands the best of our minds, so we are a studying church wanting to know what the Bible teaches and how we can intelligently apply its teachings in today’s world.

 

6.  We are a Feeling Church.  Ours is not a dryly intellectual approach to God.  We rejoice in the Lord, we praise and pray and love and serve from the heart.

 

7.  We are a Free Church.  Like the earliest churches, ours is an independent congregation.  We have no denominational bishop or superintendent nor national headquarters to determine the policies here.  As a congregation, we elect our own leaders, call and support our ministers, decide where our mission money will go and locally determine the outreach program of the church.

 

8.  We are a Growing Church.  We want to grow spiritually because we know that we have not yet achieved all Christ wants of us.  We want to grow numerically because we are under Christ’s commission to disciple the whole world.

 

Because we believe we are not the only Christians, but seek to be Christians only, and because we desire to speak where the Bible speaks, and be silent where the Bible is silent, and because we have  no book but the Bible,  no creed but Christ, and  no law but love,  We Believe Orcutt Christian Church should be Your Church!  If this common sense approach to God’s Word and His Teaching is what you are seeking, we sincerely desire your fellowship as a member of Orcutt Christian Church.

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