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Crosspoint community groups exist to intentionally and personally minister the gospel to one another so that Christ will be supremely glorified as His church is growing in unity and spiritual maturity.

In reading the mandates and example of the New Testament Church found in Scripture, biblical Christianity should be understood as not merely an individual pursuit, but a shared corporate journey with other Christ followers. Believers have been placed in the body of Christ at the moment of regeneration, and it is assumed in Scripture they would publicly identify with Christ and His people. We don’t want the size of our city, or the pace of our life, keep us from

One of the motivations for this commitment is to mutually encourage one another to grow in love for Christ and doing good works to one another and in the communities, He has placed us. At Crosspoint, we believe every believer should seek to intentionally participate in settings that enhance and encourage corporate discipleship on a personal level. Our community group gatherings are crucial to continued unified growth into the likeness of Jesus Christ. Each participant provides something the body needs, and a healthy body will be used by God to reach the world with the gospel of Christ. These meetings can be wonderful opportunities to invite friends, family, and co-workers to join in geographically convenient locations.

At Crosspoint our aim is to help families point each other to Christ. We want to be a resource to equip you to disciple your children. We know this is a difficult task in our modern culture and we want to be there to help!

Nursery

We take childcare very seriously! We want you to be comfortable with the attention given to the staffing, safety, and cleanliness of our nursery. Workers have undergone a background check and trained to love and care for your child.

Children and Church

Children matter! It is important for children to be integrated as much as possible into the church. This means that we have a special time of “Children’s Church,” but try to keep the children (except those in the nursery) with the adults for the first half of the Sunday morning service. We give you the option to either send your children to this special time of teaching or keep them with you during the adult teaching time. We want to enable you to disciple your children in the way you feel is best.

The purpose of mercy ministries is to enable individuals within the church to demonstrate to others the grace and mercy given them by Christ. As the greatest commandment is to love our God, the second is to love those around us as we might ourselves. Pure religion is to care for those who cannot care for themselves (James 1:27). 1 John 3:16-18 states “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and truth.” At Crosspoint, we desire to “Point People to the Cross” by actively loving those in need in our community and around the world.

Why Plant Churches?

Why should we be concerned with church planting? Is there really a need to start new churches? Why don’t we simply spend the time and energy revitalizing already existing churches? A major focus should always be church revitalization; but with that said, there are several reasons that church planting should also be seen as not only expedient, but vital. Among these reasons are 1) it is biblical and 2) it is practical.

It is Biblical.

The Bible speaks of church planting quite often. It might not use the words “church plant” or “church launch,” but it viewed it at times as the fulfilling of Christ’s two last great commissions. Matthew 28:18-20 has been labeled as the “Great Commission.” In it Christ tells his followers to make disciples of all people groups. But Christ’s last great commissioning is found in Acts 1:4-8. The people ask the resurrected Christ if he will establish the kingdom at that point. He tells them to be patient and wait for the coming of a different type of ministry from the Spirit before embarking on making disciples of the nations. This is important for it is the Spirit that guides the Church at Antioch to send Paul and Barnabas into church planting in Acts 13:1-3. The leading of the Spirit in fulfilling the great commission was to see churches started. The church of Antioch was the first church recorded to formally (by laying on of hands) send out church planters. The church was not only willing to see others churches planted, but they were willing to give of their resources and to give of the best of their leaders to church planting.

It is Practical.

If our goal is to see Christ honored among all people groups, how do we best accomplish that? While starting new churches is not the only way, we believe that it is one of the best ways already existing churches can use their time and resources.

Bill Easmun states “Studies show that if a denomination wishes to reach more people, the number of new churches it begins each year must equal at least 3% of the denomination’s existing churches.” While this applies to denominations, this can also apply to independent churches. Churches must reduplicate in order to continue to have any influence in North America. Ed Stetzer states it this way: “In 1900, the Census Bureau counted 212,000 churches. In 2000, the number of churches that existed in the United States was 349,506. In other words, the number of churches increased just over 50 percent while the population of the country has almost quadrupled.” Not only has the church not kept up with the population growth in America, but it has also not kept up with the urbanization of certain areas (i.e. inner cities and western metropolitan areas).

Planting new churches is vital if we are to propagate the gospel. As cities expand, their borders are riddled with unreached people that need new churches.