Frequently Asked Questions
1. Are you a Protestant Denomination?
No, we strive to be just Christians. We use only the word of God as our guide and try to follow the pattern of the church of the New Testament.. Our plea is that Christians unite in truth and the name of Christ. "Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." (1 Corinthians 1:10 NKJV)
2. Why is your name "Church of Christ"?
This is one of several names used in the Bible to describe Christ's church (Romans 16:16, I Corinthians 1:2, II Corinthians 1:1, I Thessalonians 1:1, Hebrews 12:23). We are happy to be called any of these names. As related in another section of this website, the word "church" means body or group, and we desire to be the body of Christ. (Romans 12:5, I Corinthians 12:27)
3. Do you believe only the Church of Christ is going to heaven?
We believe that all people, throughout the world, who believe the good news of salvation, repent of their sinful ways, confess Him as Lord, and are baptized into Christ receive the Holy Spirit. "...And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved." (Acts 2:47)
It is the Lord himself who adds people to the church. Therefore, all people who obey the gospel, and worship in Spirit and in truth are members of the Lord's church.
Baptized believers show their love for God by loving others and obeying His commands throughout their lives.
"Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 6:3-11)
4. Do you believe you are saved by Faith or by Works?
The Bible is clear that we are not saved by Faith alone (James 2:24) nor by Works alone (Titus 3:5). We are saved by Faith that is demonstrated by works (Hebrews 11, James 2:26). Both James and Paul tell us this by using the example of Abraham and his obedience to God's commands (James 2:21-23, Romans 4:9). Paul uses Abraham to show that God called his action Faith, and said it was his Faith that saved him, while James points out it was called Faith because he performed what God commanded. We teach just as the Bible teaches it: we are saved by Faith, but Faith is defined by our obedience to what God has commanded (which are the works James speaks about). Sometimes we are asked why Paul seems to tell us works are not valuable for righteousness in Galatians or Romans; when Paul speaks about the "works" or "works of the law", he is always speaking about the works of the Old Testament Law of Moses. If you look in passages in Galatians, Romans or Ephesians, you will see he speaks about Old Law requirements that are not required to be kept by Christians. Ironically, many of the people who espouse salvation without works turn to the Old Law for justification on modern doctrines.
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5. Why do you have communion every Sunday, and only Sunday?
The Bible records that Jesus commanded us to regularly partake of the Lord's Supper / Communion (I Corinthians 11:23-26), and the only time the church of the first century did so was on Sunday (Acts 20:17).
