Crossroads is a welcoming church filled with diverse people from many backgrounds. Sometimes people ask, “What do you believe?” or “How is Crossroads affiliated with the larger Church?” This is how we explain our beliefs and our place in Christ’s Church.
Our place in the worldwide Christian Church…
We are connected to the historic church. We confess Jesus Christ and the faith of the apostles as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. We believe the authority of the Bible is supreme in all matters of faith, doctrine, and conduct, and it is to be trusted. “What does the Bible say?” is Crossroads’ touchstone of discussion with regard to faith and practice.
We are part of the worldwide church. We understand ourselves to be a part of the community of believers that began with Jesus’s first followers, is alive today, and will continue until Christ comes again.
We are a Reformation church. We stand in the mainstream of a church renewal movement of the sixteenth century called the Protestant Reformation. Especially important is the belief that we are saved by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, not by anything that we can do. We also identify with the renewal movements that began in seventeenth-century Europe and emphasized the need for a life that is personally connected to Jesus Christ, a reliance on the Holy Spirit, and a call to service in the world.
We are an evangelical church. A series of religious awakenings flowered in Europe and America during the nineteenth century and provided rich soil for the early growth of evangelical mission. Evangelicals historically have been characterized by a strong insistence on biblical authority, the absolute necessity of new birth, Christ’s mandate to evangelize the world, the continuing need for education and formation in a Christian context, and a responsibility for benevolence and the advancement of social justice.
Crossroads is a non-creedal church and a member of the Evangelical Covenant denomination. Our essential beliefs are summed up in what we call Affirmations.
