Welcome to the Church of the Cross website and we encourage you to go from web to worshiping with us in person on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am for the Traditional Service or The Encounter Worship Service at 12:00 pm.
We have a favorite saying here, “Welcome to Church of the Cross: it’s not our church its GOD’S church.” We are a group of believers who wish to follow God’s mission for us individually and as a Christian community. We do this through our relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord, that relationship being nurtured through prayer, word, worship and service together.
All are welcome to seek God’s grace, mercy, forgiveness and living presence at Church of the Cross. Come and see how the one true living Christ can renew your life, the life of your family, and heal the wounds we all get from life’s struggles.
LOOKING INTO THE COMING YEAR
This year is rapidly closing out, the quintessential triad of November and December holidays are upon us. It is not to soon to look forward as a congregation of believers and seekers. Now is a good moment to pray, contemplate our purposes, re-evaluate our priorities and formulate a strong biblical vision for 2025.
In order to better serve our Lordsavior we must collectively have a consensus which gives our church the proper focus in three interlaced perspectives: looking upward, looking inward and looking outward.
A congregation which looks upward declares it’s fealty to one true living God (Father- Son- Holy Spirit),to the living Gospel the divine inerrancy of the Bible. This union is enlivened and nurtured through the spiritual dialogue of worship, service to others and faithfulness. We must not forsake heartfelt Spirit led worship for such is the rich soil in which might and productive disciples for their inner bonds to God.
These strong spiritual roots are strengthened and mature as we, under the illuminating presence of the Holy Spirit, study the holy Bible. This knowing is by the Lord’s design and comes to great fruition as we gather in large and small groups to rightly find the empowering truths of scripture. However, group settings are not a substitute for the essential practice of quotidian individual prayerful solitude with God and His Word.
The upward and inward aspects of the lives of disciples of Jesus are incomplete if wonderous lessons and spiritual growth received are not applied. The church must focus outward with consistency and interface with it’s surrounding culture. All of our Christianity is received and developed for the joyous purposes of God. Our vision as a church is to use our upward and inward focus to facilitate the salvation, spiritual maturation and sanctification of the lost. May it be so ….. “Freely, freely you have received. Freely, freely give…”
Blessings Pastor Tom