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Since 2009, Antioch Community Church has been calling people to become whole-hearted disciples of Jesus who transform towns and nations with the love and power of the Gospel.

 
 

OUR VISION 

To present to Christ a radiant Church, ready for His return.

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  • The Old Testament saints, prophets, New Testament apostles and Jesus Himself repeatedly emphasized a day in which God’s Kingdom would reign on the earth with Christ as Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Not only would the Messiah come as a Sacrificial Lamb and offer forgiveness of sins through His death on the cross, but He would also return as a Conquering Lion to reign and rule for all eternity. Therefore, having in mind His return seemed vital to set before us, reminding us that we are not just living for today, but living for that Day in which He comes again and the mortal puts on immortality, the perishable puts on the imperishable, and death is swallowed up in victory (1 Cor. 15:54). If the parables and teachings of Jesus and the apostles were not enough to convince us of this reality, Jesus repeats Himself to make it abundantly clear that He is coming again—"Behold, I am coming quickly…yes, I am coming quickly” (Rev. 22:7,12,20).

  • In view of His coming return, disciples of Jesus are called upon not just to know and be aware of this, but to be ready. Ready like the wise virgins who had their lamps trimmed and oil stored (Matt. 25:1-13). Ready like the faithful servant put in charge of his master’s household (Matt. 24:45-51). Ready to open the door when He knocks (Luke 12:35-40), not sleeping, but alert (Mark 13:33-37). Knowing He is coming doesn’t necessarily make you ready, but actively preparing yourself does. Like a bride preparing for a wedding is the people of God, His Church, to prepare Herself for His coming. Everyone who has the hope of His coming purifies themselves (1 John 3:3) and makes sure they are ready to give account for their life. This opens us up for constant sanctification from the Holy Spirit, as we are always growing and maturing in our walk with the Lord. Even the apostle Paul later in his ministry admitted that though he was ready to depart and be with Christ (Phil. 1:23), he had not yet attained or become perfect, yet pressed on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God (Phil. 3:12-14). We must follow in his example and continue to make ourselves ready all the days of our lives by pressing on to perfection (Heb. 6:1) in every area of our lives. Then we will ready and confident on the day of His coming (1 John 2:28, 4:17), without blemish, holy and blameless (Eph. 5:27, Col.1:22).

  • Jesus is not coming back for organizations, denominations, or individual people. He is coming back for His Church. And time and again the Scriptures reveal to us that the Church is to be the Body of Christ, with Jesus as our Head (Col. 1:8). As disciples of Jesus, we are called to be one Body (1 Cor. 12:12). Not only that, a mature body, build together in love (Eph. 4:16). This can only be accomplished through genuine and authentic relationships created within the local church. And when the church functions together in unity as one body, each member playing their part in fellowship with the other members, the gates of hell will not prevail against what God can accomplish through that church (Matt. 16:18). Church is not a building nor an organization, it is a local community of disciples fitted and held together by what every joint supplies (Eph. 4:16).

  • If we are convinced Jesus is coming back for His Body, the Church, then we must ask the question, what kind of body? The answer is given to us clearly in the Word of God—a holy, blameless, spotless body that appears as a light in the world amid a dark and crooked generation (Phil. 2:15). Jesus taught that His disciples would be the light of the world, a city on a hill that cannot be a hidden, a lampstand that gives light to all (Matt. 5:14-16). We are called to shine forth the glory of God in every area of our lives. Like the sun radiates light for all to see, we too must radiate God’s glory for all to see. As the author of Hebrews says, Jesus is “the radiance of God’s glory”, allowing us to see the exact representation of His nature (Heb. 1:3). Jesus Himself said, “if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father” (John 14:9). A radiant church looks just like Jesus. Full of light and flowing with life (John 8:12). And this can only be accomplished by the power of the Holy Spirit (John 7:38-39). A radiant church is a Spirit-filled and Spirit-led church filled with abundant life.

  • Even in the very beginning of Creation in the garden of Eden, when God walked in the cool of the day with man, He saw fit to give mankind a purpose. In paradise, Adam was to cultivate and keep the garden (Gen. 2:15). As humans, we must have a purpose in life. And as a local church, we also must have one single purpose that we can rally behind. And we want to hear at the end of it all, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” for being faithful with the “talents” we have been given (Matt. 25:23). As ministers of the gospel and as disciples of Christ, we have work to do. We want to present our lives before God as pure and righteous. We want to present the work of our hands as a wise master builder would, not with wood, hay, and straw, but with gold, silver and precious stone so as to be revealed by fire one day (1 Cor. 3:10-14).

    Finally, we must acknowledge who it is that we are presenting our lives and all we have done to. It is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ. Our Redeemer. Our Savior. Our Master. The One who was, is and is to come. The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning, and the End (Rev. 1:8). We know that we will not stand before some earthly king or worldly government whose wisdom and knowledge only spans the breadth of their small life, but rather we will stand before the Ancient of Days, the Judge of the living and the dead, Almighty God Himself. He is the Lamb of God by which all things were created, both in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. He is the Head of the body, the Church; and He is the beginning; the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have the first place in everything (Col.1:16-18). May Christ be glorified forever and ever. Amen.

 
 

OUR MISSION

To make disciples of Jesus who transform towns and nations.


When God put a dream in our hearts to plant a church in Bryan-College Station, we knew He was calling us to be a church-planting church— a church committed to reaching people with the Gospel, training and discipling them in the ways of Jesus, and sending them out into to towns, cities and nations.

 

OUR BELIEFS

 

We believe that the Bible is the inspired, authoritative, living, eternally reliable Word of God; equal in all parts and without error in its original manuscript, absolutely infallible, and our source of supreme revelation from God, superior to conscience and reason, though not contrary to reason. It is therefore our infallible rule of faith and practice and necessary to our daily lives. [II Timothy 3:16-17; I Peter 1:23-25; Hebrews 4:12]



We believe in one God who has revealed Himself in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. [Romans 1:20] The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all co-eternal and all stand equally superior to time, free from the temporal distinctions of past and future.

• Father – [Deuteronomy 33:27; Psalm 90:2; Psalm 102:27; I Timothy 1:17]
• Son – [John 1:1-2; John 8:58; Hebrews 1:8; I John 1:2; Revelation 1:8]
• Holy Spirit – [Hebrews 9:14]

We believe in God the Father, Creator of all things visible and invisible. [Colossians 1:15-16]

We believe in Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, who came into the world to reveal the Father, and was the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person. Jesus Christ was the Creator of everything, for by Him all things were made. We further believe that in Christ dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form and that He was very God and very Man. [John. 1:1-2 & 14; I Timothy 3:16; Acts 7:37-38]

We believe in Jesus Christ’s pre-existence, incarnation, virgin birth, sinless life, miracles, substitutionary and atoning death, bodily resurrection, bodily ascension into heaven, exaltation, present rule at the right hand of God, coming personal return in power and great glory, and in His everlasting Kingdom and dominion. [Acts 1:11; 3:19-21; Daniel 7:14; Revelation 20:4] We acknowledge His Lordship - that Jesus Christ is Lord over all things in heaven and on earth, and under the earth. [Philippians 2:9-10]

We believe in the Holy Spirit, His present ministry, His indwelling, His empowering, His impartation of gifts for today and His transforming power in the lives of all believers. [I Corinthians 12:4-11, Galatians 5:22-23]



We believe that man was created by a direct and immediate act of God. [Genesis 1:26-27; 2:4]

We believe that man, by transgression, fell from a state of righteousness and holiness in which he was first created into total spiritual depravity, a state of death in trespasses and sins in which he is held as a slave of sin and an enemy of God. As such, he is unable to attain divine righteousness by his own efforts but must be redeemed and delivered by the power of the gospel. [Romans 5:12-21; I Corinthians 15:1-4]

We believe that repentance and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ is an integral part of God’s work of justification of the believer. Through faith in the shed blood of Christ, he or she is justified and made a partaker in the death of Christ. [Romans 5:1, 9]

We believe that “it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast.” [Ephesians 2:8-9] We further believe that the emphasis for a continuous walk in grace should be on demonstrating righteousness and purity of heart, believing in the keeping power of God, walking after the Spirit and not after the flesh, living a lifestyle that demonstrates the character, standards and convictions of Jesus Christ, and not being conformed to the world. [Jude 24; Romans 8:25; Galatians 5:16-25; Romans 4:1-5; 12:1-2]

We believe that repentance is dependent upon the convicting action of the Holy Spirit in the lives of sinners and believers and their response. The conviction of the Holy Spirit, which often accompanies the preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, will result in the revelation of the sinfulness of self, which should lead to godly sorrow. Remorse, or worldly sorrow, is a feeling of deep regret, hopelessness, or even despair. It does not lead to constructive change. On the other hand, godly sorrow produces repentance that causes us to turn away from sin and selfishness and to receive faith for change. Repentance is evidenced by an earnest desire to change. Repentance changes the way we feel and act about sin, self and God. Repentance is a total change of mind, will and emotions. [II Corinthians 7:10; Psalm 51; Acts 11:18; II Timothy 2:25; Romans 1:18-32; Matthew 9:12-13]

We believe that in the final judgment, which will accompany the return of Christ, every person will give an account to God of every aspect of this earthly life. The Judgment Seat of Christ (Bema Seat) is the judgment of believers in reference to rewards or lack thereof. The Great White Throne Judgment is the judgment of unbelievers who will be eternally separated from God and in torment. [I Corinthians 3:10-15; II Corinthians 5:10; Revelation 20:11-15]



We believe in the Lord’s supper and believer’s baptism as acts of our obedience and a testimony of our faith. [Matthew 3:6; Mark. 16:16; I Corinthians 11:23-29]

We believe that water baptism is necessary in obedient response to the command of Jesus. Baptism is to be performed only upon repentant believers in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. [Matthew 28:18-20]

We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 2:4, 10:46, 19:6. We hold that the real evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit is one’s response to the Word of God (John 16:13), a Christ-like life, showing forth Christ’s character and experiencing and manifesting the gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit. [John 15:26, 16:14; Galatians 5:22-23; I Corinthians 12:4-11]



We believe that God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood or adoption. [Genesis 1:27-28]

We believe that marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime. [Genesis 2:20-25, Matthew 19:5-6] The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God’s image. [Genesis 1:27] A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. [Ephesians 5:25, Colossians 3:19] A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. [Ephesians 5:24, Colossians 3:18]

We believe that all intimate sexual activity outside the marriage relationship, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise, is immoral and therefore sin [Genesis 2:24-25; Exodus 20:14, 17, 22:19; Leviticus 18:22-23, 20:13, 15-16; Matthew 19:4-6, 9; Romans 1:18-31; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 15-20; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Jude 7] We believe that God created the human race as male and female and that all conduct with the intent to adopt a gender other than one’s birth gender is immoral and therefore sin. [Genesis 1:27; Deuteronomy 22:5]

We believe that children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. [Psalm 127:3, Psalm 139:12-15, Matthew 19:14] Parents are responsible for training their children in the ways of the Lord through encouragement, teaching, and discipline. [Deuteronomy 11:19, Ephesians 6:4, Colossians 3:21, Proverbs 13:24, 19:18]



The church is God’s instrument for revealing His purpose on the Earth. We believe that the Church (the people of God) is God’s instrument to distribute His glory on the Earth. The Church is defined as a gathering of believers, meeting and experiencing God together in order to display His goodness wherever they go. [Ephesians 1:22-23; 1 Peter 2:4-5; Acts 9:4-6; Ephesians 3:14-19; Ephesians 5:25-31]