Crossview Community Church is concerned with what's most important in life, and we allow Jesus to define that for us. Once, when asked, “What's the greatest commandment…?” Jesus replied:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments (Matt 22:35-40).

Doctrinal purity, religious conviction, and pious living mean nothing if love doesn't dominate the life of the believer. Crossview is committed to living by the greatest commands to avoid falling into the “Pharisee trap”:

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices - mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law - justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former (Matt 23:23 NIV).

The Pharisee Trap is what a person falls into when he thinks that doing makes him pleasing to God. What many Pharisees (then and now) fail to see is that you have be something before your doing means anything.

Works are nothing more than dirty rags in God's sight if we fail to live with our spiritual priorities in order: heart first then deeds (see Isa 64:6).

The Great Commission

One of the last, and therefore most important, things Christ said was before He ascended back to heaven and is found in Matthew 28:18-20:

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” (Matt 28:18-20 NIV).

The Lord spent much of His earthly ministry
preparing these men to continue what He started: making disciples, baptizing, and teaching.

This passage has been titled, “The Great Commission,” though these words are not found in the Text. But Jesus certainly commissions them, and His challenge was and is a great one, both for them and us.

The Scripture literally reads, “Therefore as you are going…” (28:18). While foreign mission work is vitally important and desperately needed, the family of God at Crossview understands that mission work exists next door, in the workplace, and on the golf course, if indeed the people in these places do not yet know Jesus. Maybe every church needs a sign over the exit doors of the building that reads, “Welcome to the Mission Field.”

The Grace of God

God's undeserved favor, His unfathomable mercy, and His relentless pursuit of people drives Crossview to fulfill this mission. Most of us have wasted too many years trying to win God's approval through “good works” and have ended up as spiritual anorexics. We now derive our motivation from God's boundless grace:

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope - the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you (Titus 2:11-15).

Crossview Community Church is a group of people marked not by perfection or right doctrine but by the grace of God.

We know what Paul meant when he said in 1 Timothy 1:15: “Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners — of whom I am the worst.” The people at Crossview recognize that God's grace is more powerful than we can imagine or comprehend, but we accept it and live by it anyway.