About Neighborhood City Church
NCC Core Values
Diverse Community
We believe that God’s love extends and reaches into every
culture and every people group and that the glory of God is manifest more fully
within a diverse, unified body of Christ.
(1 Corinthians 12:12-14, Revelation 7:9-10)
Expository Teaching
We value the expository preaching and teaching of God’s Word
without apology. We believe that it is the power of God’s Word that truly
transforms the heart and brings one closer to God.
(Acts 2:42; 20:24-27; 2 Timothy 4:1-5; Hebrews 4:12, Romans 1:16)
Prayer
We value the power of prayer to accomplish what only God can
do.
(Jeremiah 33:3; John 15:5; Acts 2:42,43; James 5:16)
Praise and Worship
We value sincere, God-focused praise and worship. (Psalm 95:1-7; John 4:23,24; 12:32; Acts 2:46,47; Romans 11:33-36)
Disciple Making
We value thorough, holistic disciple-making.
(Matthew 9:36-38; 28:18-20; Acts 2:47; 4:19,20,33; Romans 1:16; 2 Corinthians 5:14-20)
The Origination of NCC
Neighborhood City Church was planted in 2001 by Pastor Chris Crye with the awareness of a great need for the presence of a multi-ethnic evangelical church within a city experiencing significant growth in diversity. There was a realization of potential impact of having a place of worship where people with diverse backgrounds could develop an authentic Christian community.
Opening in the Poage Park neighborhood, the church began as a home fellowship and later occupied a storefront in the Washburn neighborhood. For six years, NCC held Sunday services at Lincoln Middle School, all the while searching for the place that would become our permanent home. Our prayers were answered with the provision of our facility at 7th & Ferry.
NCC is a member of the Forest Lakes District of the Evangelical Free Church of America. Below is an expanded definition of our beliefs.
EFCA Statement Of Faith
Current EFCA Statement of Faith adopted in 2019.
Neighborhood City Church is part of the Evangelical Free Church of America which is an association and fellowship of autonomous and interdependent churches united around the same Statement of Faith.
God
We believe in one God, Creator of all things, holy, infinitely perfect, and eternally existing in a loving unity of three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Having limitless knowledge and sovereign power, God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself and to make all things new for His own glory.
The Bible
We believe that God has spoken in the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, through the words of human authors. As the verbally inspired Word of God, the Bible is without error in the original writings, the complete revelation of His will for salvation, and the ultimate authority by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged. Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches, obeyed in all that it requires, and trusted in all that it promises.
The Human Condition
We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image, but they sinned when tempted by Satan. In union with Adam, human beings are sinners by nature and by choice, alienated from God, and under His wrath. Only through God’s saving work in Jesus Christ can we be rescued, reconciled and renewed.
Jesus Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is God incarnate, fully God and fully man, one Person in two natures. Jesus—Israel’s promised Messiah—was conceived through the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. He lived a sinless life, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father as our High Priest and Advocate.
The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit, in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ. He convicts the world of its guilt. He regenerates sinners, and in Him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted as heirs in the family of God. He also indwells, illuminates, guides, equips and empowers believers for Christ-like living and service.
The Church
We believe that the true church comprises all who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ, of which He is the Head. The true church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be composed only of believers. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
Christian Living
We believe that God’s justifying grace must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose. God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially, and to live out our faith with care for one another, compassion toward the poor and justice for the oppressed. With God’s Word, the Spirit’s power, and fervent prayer in Christ’s name, we are to combat the spiritual forces of evil. In obedience to Christ’s commission, we are to make disciples among all people, always bearing witness to the gospel in word and deed.
Christ’s Return
We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God, demands constant expectancy and, as our blessed hope, motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
Response and Eternal Destiny
We believe that God commands everyone everywhere to believe the gospel by turning to Him in repentance and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe that God will raise the dead bodily and judge the world, assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and eternal conscious punishment and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord in the new heaven and the new earth, to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
