What to Expect This Sunday
Meeting Times: 9am & 11am
Children
We want to help kids love and obey Jesus. We offer nurseries and classes for infants through middle-schoolers during both meetings. If this is your first time visiting Christ's Church, ask the greeters at the door about our check-in procedures, and they'll point you in the right direction.
Worship
Worship is a priority for us. Our Sunday gatherings are worship meetings from start to finish. We allow extended time for seeking God, for singing and declaring his praises. When we transition to the time of teaching, we maintain the same attitude of expecting to hear from God and experience his presence.
Politics and Elections
On Sunday, August 28, 2016, Tim Chambers read a statement from the elders about how they believe Christians should approach politics. A PDF version of that statement can be viewed online here.
- by Leadership Team
Hearing God in The Bible
We want to hear from God regularly through the Bible and below, we’ve compiled a few helpful resources for doing so. Click below to find out more!
The Kingdom of God
Everything is better where God is in charge. The good news is that Jesus is the great King who announces the Kingdom and brings us back under his ...
True Fasting
In Isaiah 58 God tells us what kind of fast he desires. From this text, Oscar shows us fourteen things God wants us to do and fourteen promises ...
Three Ways to Pray
At some level, all the children of God want close communion with their Father. In spite of this, it can be a struggle to maintain a life of ...
Feed Yourself
Tim talked about the value of hearing from God daily and about the important role the Bible can play in doing so. He also gives some tips as to ...
Knowing the Love of Christ
The love of Christ is beyond comprehension. Yet, the church is encouraged to seek to know this love experientially. How is this possible? Tim ...
Daniel
While living in Babylon, Daniel was faithful to His sovereign God. Jaron Scott unpacks this statement and makes the case that believers today can ...
Ezekiel
We make the case for reading the whole Bible, including the difficult or unpleasant parts. We introduce Ezekiel – the man and the book. We ...
A Healthy Practice of Lamentation
A healthy practice of lamentation is not against joy. It’s biblical. It’s real. It’s compassionate. And, it makes the joy even ...
A Spiritual House
For those who've been added to the household of God, individualism is no longer our mode of operation. Bryan teaches from 1 Peter ...
A New Covenant
How does God respond to the sin, failure, and inadequacy of humanity? His fulfillment of the Old Covenant, and initiation of the New Covenant, ...
Exiles with a Future
In the first part of this talk, Brian Gibson tells us how God's people found their temporary identity shifting as they went into exile in ...
Welcomed Outsiders and the Gracious Host
Through the prophet Isaiah, God made a promise of full inclusion and full participation that was never possible until Jesus came. Jesus fulfills ...
Welcome to Christ’s Church of Joplin
Thanks for checking us out. If you haven't been to one of our Sunday meetings, you are invited to come some Sunday morning at 9:00 or 11:00 AM. Have a cup of coffee, meet some people, and see what happens. Each meeting is about 90 minutes long. During each of these meetings there are nurseries and programs for kids.
We hope these Sunday gatherings reflect our enthusiasm for Jesus and his cause and our commitment to building communities where lives are radically transformed by grace. We hope you will feel both welcomed and challenged. We hope you will experience these things on Sunday because this is the kind of community we aspire to be every day of the week.
If you are looking for more detail about what we believe and what we are doing, you should be able to find some good clues here on the website. If you like what you see, come join us. We are looking for broken people who need healing, lonely people who need a family, and disenchanted people who need a glorious challenge.