About us

Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ are a global fellowship of Christians who seek to know God better and love him more. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we do this by following the faith, practices, and ethos of the earliest disciples to honour Jesus our Lord.

Churches in this fellowship tend to operate as self-governing congregations, ideally led by local elders. We eschew denominationalism. We yearn for a pre-denominational church and want to be Christians only – without claiming to be the only Christians.

We have several sister congregations in Singapore and thousands more worldwide. Whilst there are links among Christians, congregations, ministries, and universities established in a collaborative way, there isn’t an overall governing denominational hierarchy. Instead, each Christian and each congregation is responsible for growing in maturity through the grace and knowledge of Christ (2 Peter 3:18).

While we can’t speak for everyone, one characteristic of these churches is that we tend to do Bible things in Bible ways and call them by Bible names. That’s why many of the congregations are called “Churches of Christ” – a description used by first century disciples to highlight that they belong to Jesus (Romans 16:16). 

In our Sunday assemblies, we gather to worship God and spur one another to love and good deeds (Hebrews 10:24-25). This is something disciples of Jesus have been doing since the church was established on Pentecost after he died and was resurrected (Acts 2:41-47). Some congregations are small and meet in homes. Others have thousands of members and meet in large buildings.

One common feature is the simplicity of our gatherings. We pray, partake the Lord’s Supper, sing acappella, take up a freewill money offering, and reflect on the Scriptures. And we often share communal meals.

In our evangelism we point everyone to Jesus, believing that by grace through faith we enjoy God’s gift of eternal life through Jesus’ death and resurrection (Ephesians 2:8). We baptise repentant believers into Christ for forgiveness of sins and to receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38). We uphold the biblical view of marriage between male and female as honourable and life-giving. We encourage a complementarian view of gender roles. We seek to live ethically and be faithful stewards of creation.

Then, like all God’s people through millennia, we cheer each other on to do what is right, love mercy, and walk humbly with our Creator (Micah 6:8).