About Us
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Southport Church of Christ is a Christian Church located in Southport on the Gold Coast. Our Sunday gatherings happen each week at 9am and 5pm. The services are approximately 75 minutes long and include a time of worship through song, an opportunity to take communion and an encouraging message based on the Bible shared by one of our pastors.
Our Vision
To reset mission and discipleship as our primary focus and expression of Church. Following Jesus, transforming lives.
Our Mission
To build a mission-centred, disciple-making church, incarnating Christ, beginning at Southport, then across the northern Gold Coast as a network of diverse, fresh Christian community expressions, impacting the world.
Our Values
Because we are Christ-centred, we are:
Loving
Gracious
Generous
Real with each other
Committed to each other
What we believe
∙ The Bible is the inspired word of God and the supreme and final authority in faith and life.
∙ In one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
∙ That Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, is true God and true man.
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∙ That man was created in the image of God; that he sinned; and thereby incurred not only physical death; but also spiritual death which is separation from God; and that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, being sinners in thought, word, and deed.
∙ That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the grounds of His shed blood.
∙ In the resurrection of the crucified body of our Lord, in His ascension to heaven, in His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.
∙ In the personal, imminent return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to receive His Church and to judge the world.
∙ That all who come to repentance of sin, and faith in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord, are born again of the Holy Spirit and baptised by the Holy Spirit into the body of Christ, thereby becoming children of God.
∙ In the bodily resurrection of the just and the unjust; the everlasting blessedness of the saved, and the everlasting condemnation of the lost.
∙ That Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are the two ordinances given by Jesus Christ to be practised by his church.
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Our History
Southport Church of Christ began on the Gold Coast in 1957 and has developed into an impactive local church. We are an autonomous (self governing) church, affiliated with ‘Churches of Christ in Australia’, who trace their history back to the 1830’s where Christians in Britain and the USA were seeking the restoration of New Testament Christianity. They never saw themselves as commencing a denomination but, rather, thought of themselves as being part of the ‘Restoration Movement’, known as ‘people of the Bible’. At Southport Church of Christ, we still commit ourselves to practising the basics of New Testament Christianity.
