Our Vision :  

   Making disciples to build God's church in Bristol and beyond

Enabling Christians to belong to a community of believers. The New Testament is quite clear that it is through belonging to each other as brothers and sisters that we learn to live the Christian life. This is very different to just attending a service. The way to belong to a local church is to know how your gifts are being used by God to build up the church. (1 Corinthians 12:7). There is sermon on this topic called 'How do we belong?' which can be downloaded here. Click here for more on how 'Service Teams' will help with this vision.

Encouraging the church family to grow spiritually through the teaching and application of God's Word. We will concentrate in our small group and Sunday teaching on how we actually grow to become more like Jesus. The ultimate aim for being the church is to become more like Jesus and our life together should enable this to happen. (Colossians 1:28). There is a sermon on this topic called 'How do we grow?' which can be downloaded here.

At the heart of Christ Church is the priority of listening to what God is saying through understanding his written Word, the bible. In Matthew 28 verse 19 Jesus told his followers to 'go and make disciples of all nations'. This has been the mission statement for God's church ever since. The task for any local church is to understand how this is worked out in the particular place and context God has put them. At Christ Church we want to fulfil this vision through working at three areas of our life together and which can be particular challenges for a church on the slightly larger side.

These three areas of our church family life are - belonging, growing, going. 
Equipping disciples to go and initiate mission in their part of the harvest field.  We are beginning a review of our mission and evangelism so that we can set out a clear strategy of what mission should look like in a church like Christ Church.  We are a 'Minster' type of church which gives our mission a particular shape. We have now planted the first Church plant from Christ Church which is one important part of initiating mission where people live.  Click here for more on Minster Churches.

There is a sermon on this topic of Mission called 'Committed to Mission' which can be downloaded here.