Welcome
Visit
About
Connect
Contact Us
Give

Welcome
Visit
About
Connect
Contact Us
Give

Worship & Prayer Night

Worship & Prayer Night

Thursday, November 30, 2017
7:00pm – 8:00pm 19:00 – 20:00

✚ gCal
✚ iCal

Nov. 30 / 7pm at Back Bay High School

Back to All

FOLLOW ALONG ON INSTAGRAM

@crossofchristoc

After a short break, we’re back with Season Two of the Podcast.
-
Episode 57 with Dr. Nick Deliberato is available on iTunes. In this episode Dr. Deliberato and Pastor Nick talk about health-related research, wearable health tech, neuroscience, exercise, nutrition, travel, books, wine, and the beach.

"For those of you workaholics or apathetic, who lay everything on the altar of work or who throw your hands up in apathetic resignation, Jesus died accomplishing his work as Messiah. He was faithful to his purpose until the end. For those of you who approach work selfishly - simply accumulating or using those around you - Jesus accomplished his work with sacrificial love for the undeserving…Even though your work is cursed and difficult, the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ gives you a new story for work, a new identity to work from that frees you to work ethically with passion, urgency, and discipline to honor and worship God.” – Pastor Nick Bogardus

God is good. God is near. God will provide. God has already provided.
-
Our third Men's & Women's Gatherings of the year were this week. As a congregation, we gather regularly for teaching, worship, and friendship in our Men’s and Women’s Gatherings. We also scatter weekly to grow together through the Word, prayer, and applying the Gospel to one another’s lives through Discipleship Groups.

Earlier this month we interviewed our facilities team leader, Cole Pocock.
-
1. How did you first get connected to Cross of Christ? I got connected to Cross of Christ after being de-churched my last two years of college in Northern California. I came home carrying a lot of baggage. Spiritually, I didn’t want anything to do with church, relationally I was disconnected and inauthentic, and was holding on to feelings of shame and guilt. My brother Kellen and sister Molly had been attending for awhile and asked me to attend for about 6 months. My first experience was not at a Sunday service, but was at the Men’s Retreat of 2017.
-
2. How has being not just connected but involved in a local church impacted your faith and relationship with Jesus? What about being involved caused that? Being involved at Cross of Christ has strengthened my faith and love of Jesus, reorientated me to who I belong too. It has produced fruit and growth in relationships, and given me a place I genuinely call home and family. I see that Jesus has done this through serving on the facilities team to help create an environment for others to come and hear the word of God spoken, worship Jesus, and be in community with others.
-
3. What would you say to the members of Cross of Christ and to those who’ve recently joined us? To the members that have faithfully followed Jesus to build an amazing church, thank you! Thank you to those who have pursued me in friendship and encouragement. To those that are new, my hope is that you get to enjoy the same hope, healing, love, and joy that Jesus has shown me through himself and his church.

Our church is in its third week of Strengthening Marriage with couples all along the spectrum— from engaged to newly married to married for 15 years. We stumbled upon this format in our first year as a church and it’s been one of our favorite ministries ever since - the cross-pollination in the group is so helpful! Our conviction and hopes are that stronger marriages lead to stronger families that lead to stronger churches and stronger cities. So, would you take a minute as you scroll to pray for these couples as they take this quarter to invest in one another?

The Lord’s Supper is a covenant sign and seal, and that means that it both represents to us and confirms to us the promise of God. The precious promise of God that through Jesus Christ he will be our God and we are his people. And in the Lord’s Supper we have a remembrance, a celebration of God‘s presence, in an experience of communion. with him.” J. Ligon Duncan
-
This Sunday, we will practice “embodied communion” where an elder or deacon will give you the bread and wine while proclaiming, “The body of Christ, broken for you. The blood of Christ, shed for you.” In doing so, our hope is that you continue to grow in your knowledge of God’s love for you, which was shown most particularly and powerfully when his body was broken and his blood was shed for you.

Question: What is baptism?
Answer: Baptism is the washing with water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; it signifies and seals our adoption into Christ, our cleansing from sin, and our commitment to belong to the Lord and to his church.
-
Before being baptized, we ask the person a series of questions to confirm their belief in front of the church. The first two are my favorite: 1. Who is Jesus? 2. Why do you want to be baptized? The answers are always a mixture of being theologically profound, simple, and intimate. We often sense a shift from a head-level answer to a heart-level, deep love and gratitude — truth, love, and relationship in a profession of faith. Something like, “Jesus is Lord and Savior”, becomes “Jesus is my Lord and Savior who loved me and gave himself for me.” May we celebrate and hear many, many more over the years.

Last weekend some of our men got together to enjoy the common grace of BBQ and fellowship.

When we trust in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, not only do we become one with Jesus but we become one with his people. Membership is obeying the New Testament call to live as an accountable member of a larger family (1 Corinthians 12:12, 27). Contrary to the beliefs of our culture, we need one another. Membership is not just obedience, but it is also participating in a family, expressed in love for God and a love for others, both those within the family and those who are not. And because it is God’s good design for us to live in covenant with one another, it leads to the flourishing the church and its members. -
We believe a church is only as healthy and strong as the consistent, generous, sacrifice of its members so we love celebrating new members and last month, we had the joy of adding 14 new covenant members to our congregation.

Service Time & Location

Sundays at 10 am | Back Bay High School

380 Monte Vista Ave, Costa Mesa, CA 92627