About Us

Church = People following Christ together.

We are a church. Church in it's most raw form is a group of people sharing in the life of following Jesus Christ. We are a part of God's church that spans the world, and we are a local church of local followers. Even in Longview, there are many different churches, and they come in all shapes and sizes. We all having varying beliefs and traditions.

"Christian Church"

We are a "Christian Church", but we don’t say “Christian” as a brand name of church. We say it to emphasize and underline the fact that this church gets its identity from Jesus who was the Christ. We are serious about wanting this to be His church, run by His values, directed by His desires, trying to bring His presence into the lives of the people we touch.

Leadership

The life of this church is led by men chosen by our church community to serve as the leaders of this local church. The term from the Bible for these men is "elders". This group of elders does many things, but for the most part they depend on God for guidance and direct the church accordingly.

As a church, we are not formally associated with any larger church or denominational structure. We do have informal “partnership” or “team” kinds of relationships with some other churches through which we do some things we can’t accomplish alone. For example, we “partner” with some churches to own and direct a camp. We “partner” with some other churches to carry on various benevolent and outreach works in places from Asia to Mexico to here in Longview.

Beliefs

While there are some central beliefs that Christ followers agree upon, there are many beliefs that Christians disagree upon. Disagreement usually arises out of varying interpretations of scripture and different methods of fulfilling what God asks. This is not necessarily a bad thing. God can use different churches to do different things, therefore we don’t claim be God’s only church or the only way of being a church.

Even within the LCC community, there are going to be some differing beliefs on some issues. In fact, most of the time a healthy balance of different ideas keeps us learning and seeking truth from God’s Word together.  As a result, it can be hard to say for sure what our community believes as a whole on some of these “gray area” issues. But there are still some central beliefs that we build our foundation upon.

For more information on our central beliefs check out our beliefs page