BELIEFS

Our Vision

Our vision is for every man, woman, and child in greater Austin and beyond to experience the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.

Our Mission

Reach People, Build Lives

Our Values

Beliefs are not worth much unless they are translated into actions. We live out our values through these healthy Rhythms of a Disciple:

  • We were designed to do life together.

    Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

  • It’s our job to make sure everyone’s invited.

    Matthew 28:19

  • We will B.L.E.S.S. our neighbors.

    Matthew 22:36-40

  • God’s Word shapes how we see and live in the world.

    Genesis 1:1 - Revelation 22:21

  • Excellence honors God and inspires people.

    Colossians 3:23-24

  • We prioritize discipleship over perfection.

    Philippians 3:12–14

  • We will be known for our sacrificial generosity.

    Mark 12:41-44

  • Kids don’t have to wait to be great.

    1 Timothy 4:12

  • We declare our dependence on Jesus.

    John 15:5, Philippians 4:1

Discipleship Pathway

Crossroads Church is a growing church that values relational discipleship, not just numbers for numbers’ sake. No matter where you’re at in your faith journey, we want to partner with you to build the life Jesus intended for you. Our Discipleship Pathway strategizes your next step into four stages:

  • BELONG

    Grow Together With Others in Committed Community

    Crossroads Focus Areas

    ● Sunday Mornings at Crossroads: Join us every Sunday morning @ 10am as we gather for corporate worship and engagement in God’s Word.

    ● All-Church Events: We want you to feel like a part of this church family. Join us for various events throughout our calendar year!

    ● Kids Ministry: We inspire, encourage, and equip parents to be the primary leader in your child’s life. As we partner together, we introduce our children to Christ and help them experience genuine life in Him.

    ● Guest Services: We believe that excellence honors God and inspires people, so we want to make sure your first impression is one that keeps you coming back!

    Your Focus Areas

    ● Are you in the Word?
    What is God saying to you through His word?
    What are you doing about it?

    Growth Track

  • BELIEVE

    Join Together in Worship & Word

    Crossroads Focus Areas

    ● Messages: Find Biblical teaching with relevant application by watching past and current messages here at Crossroads.

    ● Prayer Team

    ● Crossroads Students: We provide an environment for students to connect with one another as well as grow in boldness to advance God’s Kingdom in the spheres of influence He has given them.

    ● Worship Ministry

    Your Focus Areas

    ● Who is Jesus to you
    Do you have questions about salvation?
    Have you been baptized?

    ● Are you in the Family?
    How are you prioritizing authentic relationships?
    What risks have you taken recently for others’ good and your growth?

    Get In A Group

  • BECOME

    Live Our Your Calling & Invest Toward the Future

    Crossroads Focus Areas

    ● Groups: We want to help you find meaningful and authentic relationships in a Group that will help you connect relationally, grow spiritually, and live missionally.

    ● Discipleship: We want to help you engage in a discipleship group that will help you grow in your understanding of what it looks like to be a true follower of Jesus.

    ● DWELL: Spend time with God in His Word and Prayer daily.

    ● Men’s & Women’s Ministry

    ● Re:Gen

    Your Focus Areas

    ● Are you in the Trenches?
    Where are you finding joy in serving others?
    How are you using your gifts for God’s glory?

    Serve

  • BLESS

    Make Disciples Where You Live, Work, & Play

    Crossroads Focus Areas

    ● Making Disciples: We are here to equip you to make an impact in the lives of those around you, helping them grow as disciples of Jesus who can make and multiply disciples.

    ● Everyday Missionaries or Missionaries to our Zip Codes: We believe strongly in the theology of PLACE.  God has strategically placed you where you live, work, and play to be a conduit of His grace and mercy to a broken, lost, and hurting world.

    ● Church Planting: We have a rich history of planting churches throughout greater Austin and are actively engaged in planting two churches by the end of 2030.

    ● Global: Our vision is to reach those in greater Austin and beyond with the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Learn more about our heart for the nations, supporting our global partners, and our vision for launching disciples of Jesus to the ends of the earth.

    Your Focus Areas

    ● Are you in the Field?
    Who are you currently BLESSing?
    What are your disciples’ current celebrations and challenges?

    ● Who have you invited to Crossroads lately?

    ● What area of your life can you trust God more with?

    BLESS Strategy

What We Believe

  • We believe that there is one and only one true and living God, an infinite Spirit who is the Maker and Supreme Ruler of the universe. We believe the Scriptures reveal Him to be holy, sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, immutable and full of love, justice, goodness, mercy and truth. Although there is only one God, we believe that in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal and coequal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe these members of the Trinity are the same in substance, having precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections, but are distinct in subsistence, executing different but harmonious functions (Mark 12:29, John 4:24, Matt. 3:16-17, Matt. 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14).

  • We believe that Jesus Christ is the pre-existent and eternal Son of God who became man in order to reveal God and redeem man. We believe He was supernaturally conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. In His person, we believe the Lord Jesus combined forever full and undiminished deity with true and perfect humanity to become the God-man. We believe Christ died on the cross as a substitute for sinful man, was buried, arose bodily from the tomb, ascended into Heaven where He ministers on the behalf of saints, and someday will come again for His own (John 1:18, 8:58, Matt. 1:23, Col. 1:15-17, 1 Tim. 1:15, 3:16)

  • We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, fully equal with God the Father and God the Son. Although He is of the exact same essence, we believe He is a personality distinct from the other members of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit, we believe, has an active ministry to the world in general which includes the restraining of evil, convicting of the unsaved and bestowing of God’s goodness on all mankind. We also believe He has a ministry to every Christian which consists of regenerating, sealing, indwelling, baptizing into the Body of Christ, and the giving of spiritual gifts. Other ministries to obedient Christians include filling, assuring, teaching, guiding and comforting (Acts 5:3-4, 2 Thes. 2:3-9, John 16:7-11, Matt. 5:45, Tit. 3:5, Eph. 1:13, 1 Cor. 6:19, 12:13, Eph. 3:20, 1 Cor. 14, James 5:14, Eph. 5:18, Rom. 8:16, 14, John 16:13, 7).

  • We believe that the Triune God, according to His sovereign will and for His own glory, created the heavens and the earth without the use of pre-existent material. All living things, we believe, came into being by a direct creative act of God and not by an evolutionary or random process, and thus have an existence distinct from Him and yet always dependent on Him (Gen. 2:4, Prov. 16:4, Acts 17:24, Col. 1:16-17).

  • We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God in a state of innocence. Through deliberate disobedience, we believe man fell from his sinless state and as a consequence lost his fellowship with God and became subject to spiritual and physical death. We believe that through Adam’s transgressions the entire human race has inherited a corrupt nature which is essentially evil and unable to please God (Gen. 1:26-27, 3:24, Rom. 5:12, Eph. 2:1-3).

  • We believe that sin is anything contrary to the character of God. Every man, we believe, is alienated from God because of his depraved nature as well as personal acts of sin. We believe that each person born into the world is separated from God and completely incapable of meriting salvation and avoiding the judgment of God. The sin nature, we believe, is never eradicated, even for those who are born into the family of God, but it remains until the end of life. However, we believe God has made provision for forgiveness of sin through the blood of Jesus Christ and victory over sin through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Rom. 3:10, 23, 6:23, Eph. 4:18, 1 John 1:8-10, Gal. 5:16-17).

  • We believe that salvation from the penalty and power of sin is provided only through the blood of Jesus Christ which He shed on the cross when He was made sin for us and died in our place. There is nothing man can do, we believe, to attain this salvation through good works, moral achievement or religious status. We believe the one and only condition for salvation is personal faith in Jesus Christ as one’s own substitute for and Savior from sin. At the time of salvation, we believe a person is spiritually regenerated, his sins are forgiven, God’s righteousness is imputed to him, and he is declared righteous in the sight of God. This salvation, we believe, is complete and a present possession of all believers which remains theirs forever. All who have trusted Christ as Savior are kept secure and will never lose their salvation (1 Pet. 1:18-19, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Pet. 2:24, Eph. 2:8-9, Tit. 3:5, Eph. 4:32, Rom. 5:1, Rom. 8:38-39).

  • We believe that the Church is a unique organism composed of individuals who have placed their faith in Christ as Savior. The Church began, we believe, on the day of Pentecost and will continue its distinct purpose until the Rapture. We believe that the Church exists in both a universal aspect, as the Body of Christ, and in a local assembly of believers. The local church, we believe, has the twofold purpose of the edification of believers and the evangelization of the lost. The two ordinances of the church are water baptism, which we practice by immersion, and the Lord’s Supper, which we believe to be a memorial of Christ’s death and is open to all believers (1 Cor. 12:13, Acts 2:1-4, 1 Thes. 4:13-17, Col. 4:16, Eph. 4:7, Heb. 13:17, Matt. 28:19-20, 1 Cor. 11:23-28).

  • Marriage is a picture of Christ’s relationship with His Bride – the Church. It is defined from the beginning of Scripture as a lifelong covenant between a man and a woman. God designed sexual intimacy for a marriage relationship and does not endorse or condone it in any other context (1 Thess. 4:3-5, Eph. 5:22-23, Gen. 2:24, Matt. 19:4-5).

  • We believe that God created an order of spirit beings (without physical bodies) known as angels, before the formation of the world and for the purpose of worshipping and serving Him. Angels possess individual personalities and are intelligent and powerful. They are inferior to God but superior to humans. These angels (also known as elect or holy angels) carry out the will of God by ministering to humankind. (Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:6, 2 Pet. 2:11, Isa. 14:12-15, 1 Pet. 5:8, Eph. 6:12, Heb. 1:14).

  • We believe Lucifer was one of the highest ranking of all the angelic beings, but he sinned through pride and rebelled against God, thereby becoming Satan (or the adversary) (Isa. 14:12-20). We believe that Satan’s declared purpose is to oppose the plan of God and to promote his own evil designs by deceiving and attacking humanity (2 Cor. 4:4, Rev 20:3, Acts 5:3). In carrying out his work, Satan is aided by other fallen angels known as demons or evil spirits (Eph. 6:11-12). We believe these demons can influence and tempt people, exerting a greater degree over unbelievers (Matt. 4:24).

  • We believe that God administers His purpose in the world through man under varying dispensations or stewardships, such as the period of Mosaic Law, the present age of grace, and the future millennial kingdom. We believe that these dispensations span the entire history of mankind but that dispensations are not different ways of salvation. Rather, they are ways of life which test the obedience of man to God’s revealed will during a particular time. We believe that it is necessary to observe the dispensational distinction in order to properly understand the teaching of the Scriptures (1 Cor. 10:32, Eph. 1:10, 3:2, Gal. 4:2, Lk. 12:42, Heb. 12:22-23).

    *Strict agreement with this doctrine is not required for membership at Crossroads; however, we affirm these beliefs as taught in Scripture and have established them as the official positions of our Church.

  • We believe that the next event in God’s prophetic calendar is the Rapture of the Church when living and dead Christians will be caught up to meet the Lord and receive rewards at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Following the Rapture, we believe a seven year period of Tribulation will commence upon the earth at which time God’s wrath will be poured out on mankind. We believe God’s millennial kingdom will be ushered in by Jesus Christ when He returns to the earth in power and glory to rule sovereignly over the world for a thousand years. The unsaved dead of all ages, we believe, will be raised after the millennium to face the judgment of the Great White Throne and will be cast into the lake of fire where there will be eternal punishment. We believe the redeemed of all ages will exist in an eternal state of joy and bliss in the new heavens and new earth where they will worship and serve God forever (John 14:3, Heb. 10:37, 2 Cor. 5:10, Matt. 24:21-31, Rev. 20-22).

    *Strict agreement with this doctrine is not required for membership at Crossroads; however, we affirm these beliefs as taught in Scripture and have established them as the official positions of our Church.

  • In Acts 2:42-47 we see a picture of the very first church. The Bible says that everyone felt a sense of awe, signs and wonders were taking place, there was favor with all the people, and God was adding to their numbers everyday. We have no problem looking at the early church and seeing that it was the hope of the world and through the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit thousands of lives were changed; families were changed; cities were changed. This is what we want to see happen at Crossroads! Our hope is that people live missional and sacrificial lives, that salvation happens and God moves in powerful ways.