Welcome to the Concord Church of Christ
What We Believe
All of us in the Concord
Road Church of Christ want you to know we care about your soul and
want to do all we can to help you to know God and understand his will
for your life. We especially want to share with you here our
convictions about the Bible, Jesus Christ, his church, and our
salvation.
The Bible and Our Faith
We
in the churches of Christ believe the Bible is the word of the one,
true God. The sixty-six books of the Bible compose collectively what
is called Scripture, and based on convincing evidence, we accept the
claim of Scripture to be the all-sufficient revelation of God's
will for man. "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in
righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for
every good work" (2 Tim. 3:16-17). The Bible provides us with all
the information we need in order to know God's will, to be saved,
and to live a life that is pleasing to him. It is our complete guide
for all we believe and do. Our essential religious convictions thus
begin with a recognition of and respect for the Bible as the
only, authoritative source for determining God's will for our
lives.
Our Sin and God's Son
The
Bible tells us God created us for fellowship with him to love us,
and for us to love him in return. But we have sinned against God,
breaking our fellowship with him. Because God is perfectly just and
holy, our sin brings his condemnation and wrath upon us. Our greatest
need, therefore, is to have our sins forgiven and our fellowship with
God restored. But our problem is that there is nothing we can do of
ourselves to bring about this restoration and make things right with
God.
The good news is that God has done for us what we could
never do for ourselves. Because of his great love for you and me, God
became a man in the person of his Son, Jesus Christ, and took upon
himself the penalty for our sins. "But God showed his love for us
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom.
5:8). Jesus Christ is the only way we can be saved from our sin and
be right with God. Jesus himself said, "I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me" (John
14:6).
His Grace and Our
Response
God offers us salvation through his
Son as a gift of his grace. We cannot earn that gift by our works; we
receive it by faith, by believing in him (Eph. 2:8-9). We must
believe Jesus Christ is Lord, the One who died for our sins and was
raised from the dead. "For God so loved the world he gave his only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have
eternal life" (John 3:16; Rom. 10:9-10). But to be saved by
believing in Christ, our faith in him must move us to repent to be
sorry toward God for our sins, and determine in our hearts that we
will turn away from sin and turn to God. And then we must be
baptized (immersed in water) or the remission of our sins. God's
word tells us that to be saved by faith we must "Repent and be
baptized...in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your
sins" (Acts 2:38; see also Acts 22:16). That is how we receive
salvation and become born again to begin new lives as children of
God, members of his family, which is his church (1 Tim. 3:15).
Set free from sin, we then strive to live as servants of Jesus Christ
(Rom. 6:1-18).
The Lord and His
Church
The work of God to save us from our
sins through Christ includes his church. The Bible tells us the
church is part of the "eternal purpose" of God for every one of
us that was made possible through Jesus Christ (Eph. 3:10-11). But
there is a great deal of misunderstanding about the importance and
identity of that church.
The church is the body of the saved,
"the body of Christ" (Eph. 1:22-23). And God's word tells us
that there is but "one body...one Lord, one faith" (Eph. 4:4-6).
So there is only one church; there are no denominations in the Bible.
Yet today we see so many different churches, different faiths,
different teachings. All of this religious contradiction is confusing
and contrary to God's will (1 Cor. 1:10).
But if we set
aside the denominations, doctrines, and traditions of men and simply
go back to the Bible, we can belong to the Lord's church which is
an essential part of God's eternal plan to redeem us and glorify
his name through his Son. If we follow the New Testament of Christ
and do today what the first Christians did then, we can be today what
they were then simply Christians (Acts 11:26). Nothing more,
nothing less just Christians. Not members of any denomination; just
members of Jesus' church we read about in the Bible.
So this
is what we in the churches of Christ are striving to do: to glorify
God by following his Son, by loving others as he loves us, and
by worshipping and serving him together according to the pattern he
has given us for his church (Acts 2:42). We seek to be Christians
only, a part of the Lord's family, the church which he died to save
with his blood (Eph. 5:23-25).
We invite you to examine these
beliefs in the light of God's word (1 John 4:1). Please let us know
if we can help you to receive salvation in Christ and become a
part of the Lord's family, his people, his church.
Please come worship with us.
Services
Sunday Worship
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11:00 AM / 6:00 PM
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Sunday Bible Study
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10:00 AM
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Wednesday Bible Study
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7:00 PM |
Address
267 Concord Church Rd
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Stuart, VA
24171 Office - 276-694-6033 / Other 694-3530 - Phone none - Fax
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The Church is located approximately 9 miles east of the town of Stuart, VA.
From Stuart, travel east (6.2 mile) on US 58, turn right on South Fork Loop, turn right on Ayers Orchard Road, travel about (1.4 mile) to Concord Church Road. Turn left and travel (1.4 mile) to the church building on right at 267 Concord Church Rd.
Traveling west on US 58, turn left on South Fork Loop, turn left on Ayers Orchard Road, and follow the above instructions.
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