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.
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!
Tough Chapters
Everyone experiences pain and disappointment. There are tough chapters in most of our stories. We can learn from Jonah’s toughest chapter. ...
The Right Way to Walk
Those who walk in the fear of the Lord obey his direction and are sent by him on a mission of love. At the beginning of Jonah’s story we ...
Back to Basics
People sometimes turn to sacrifices or religious activity in attempts to please God. But through the prophet Micah, God directs us to three ...
Someone Else’s Prayers
Sometimes we have a hard time praying on our own. Thankfully, we have thoughtful and theologically sound prayers of others, which we can make our ...
Anointing at Bethany
The big claims and amazing miracles of Jesus provoked a variety of responses. We note three different responses in the days after Jesus brought ...
Meeting God in a Tent
While Christ’s Church is temporarily meeting in a tent, we take a Sunday to think about what tents represent in Scripture. Then we focus on ...
Resurrection and Life
Jesus was called by the sisters of a dear friend who was very sick. He loved these people, so he waited. By the time he arrived, his friend was ...
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
King David wrote a poetic version of one of his prayers – a prayer that was mostly a complaint to God. About a thousand years later, Jesus ...
Pray Like a Child
Drawing heavily on Paul Miller’s book, A Praying Life, we consider how coming to God as dependent children can help us communicate with ...
The Good Shepherd Has Other Sheep
Jesus, the Good Shepherd, told his Jewish listeners that he had other sheep who were not part of the fold. He said he must call them. He said ...
The Good Shepherd Keeps Sheep Safe
Sheep are vulnerable. And we are all like wayward sheep. There are real threats. Death is certain. But the Good Shepherd is the door to safety. ...
The Good Shepherd Knows the Sheep
Jesus is the good shepherd. He is the beautifully attractive shepherd. He lives with the sheep. He knows them personally and intimately. He calls ...
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.