About Christ Community
Mission • Vision • Strategy • Values
Our Vision for You
We envision the day when Christ Community is known less for what happens at 13400 Bell Road and more for what happens in the thousand places our people actually live, work, and play. Tables in kitchens. Conversations in break rooms. Friendships forged on sidelines. The church, being the church, just not at the church.
Missional Communities are how this happens. Normal people, formed together around Jesus, carrying him into the ordinary places he's already at work.
An Aircraft Carrier Kind of Church
We get a version of this question a lot: “What kind of church are you?” As J.D. Greear explains it, in many ways churches can be viewed as three types of ships, none of which are better than the other, but each is very different.
Cruise Ship
These churches have Christian luxuries for the whole family—sports, entertainment, childcare services, and business networking. People are primarily asking only, “Can this church improve my religious quality of life? Does it have good family ministry facilities? Does the pastor preach funny, time-conscious messages that meet my felt needs? Do I like the music?”
We believe God has called Christ Community toward more.
Battle Ship
The church is made for mission, and its success should be seen in how loudly and dramatically it fights the mission. The role of church members is to pay the pastors to find the targets and fire the guns each week as they gather to watch. They see the programs, services, and ministries of the church as the primary instruments of mission.
We believe God has called Christ Community toward more.
Aircraft Carrier
Like battleships, aircraft carriers engage in battle, but not in the same way. Aircraft carriers equip planes to carry the battle elsewhere. You load up the planes to carry the battle to the enemy. Members need to learn to share the gospel, without the help of the pastor, in the community, and start ministries and Bible studies—even churches—in places without them. Churches must become discipleship factories, “sending” agencies that equip their members to take the battle to the enemy.
This is how we believe God has called Christ Community to operate...the Kingdom of God has come, so we GO to guide our neighbors to a hope-filled future, for God’s glory! But to do this, we’re going to need a new metric for success beyond size. We need to start celebrating not just how many people are coming in, but how many people are going out.
Hope For The Circle
What if a church existed not just to be in the neighborhood but actually for the neighborhood? What if we narrow our focus to deepen our impact? What if we simply love where we live?
Simply stated, The Circle is the geographic area we feel called to serve first. Our focus on The Circle is in no way intended to diminish needs in other areas. We believe we have been called to serve The Circle, and that by narrowing our focus on this area we can deepen our collective impact upon it.
The heart of Christ Community beats the same as when it began.
Meet Our Team
Meet our Team — a passionate group of people committed to serving God and our community with excellence, joy, and genuine care.