About Our Churches | Our Churches

We are a group of over 60 Christian churches guided by the New Testament, with services attended by people across Queensland each week.

Who we are

While Churches of Christ does not have a set creed or written statement of faith, our principles have been foundational to the movement since the beginning.
Learn about our principles.

Where we come from

Churches of Christ is part of a restoration movement, which began around 1800 in the USA. Believers from various denominations came together with the goal of attempting to reproduce the essence of the church as presented in the New Testament.
Explore our history.

How we partner together

A vital part of the mission of Churches of Christ is to maintain a cooperative and collaborative partnership between our churches, care services, and stakeholders. This is led by our Regional Engagement Partners through Regional Hubs.
Learn about our hubs.

Our Safe Church Policy

The Safe Church Policy addresses the obligations and responsibilities of churches to provide safe environments for all people that they engage with.

Download the policy here

Our commitment to keeping children safe

We will:

Embed safeguarding of children and vulnerable people in the leadership, governance, and culture of our churches.
Reduce the risk of abuse occurring, especially to children and vulnerable people, and to ensure that a caring and appropriate response is taken should abuse occur.
Ensure each church has processes in place to act in an appropriate and timely manner to identify abuse and/or respond to allegations of abuse, reports of suspected abuse, or grooming.
Ensure the Child Safe Standards, Universal Principle and Reportable Conduct Scheme are embedded in each affiliated church.

Find out more about how Churches of Christ keeps children safe here:

Download our Child Safe Commitment Statement

Our founding principles

Not the only Christians, but Christians only
No creed but Christ.
Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent; in all things grace and liberty
All who love the Lord are welcome at the Lord’s table
The priesthood of all believers

A shared principle of the Churches of Christ movement is the saying from the Saint Augustine, used by John Wesley and other Christian leaders: “In essentials, unity; in opinions, liberty; in all things, love”.

Our history

As we read in the book of Acts, the Christian church was called into existence in AD 30.

Since that time great movements of God have emerged and denominations have grown and by the 19^th century there were hundreds of ‘denominations’ and groups claiming to be THE true church. In the midst of this, a movement centered on Christ and the Bible emerged. The Spirit of God was moving in the lives of many people whose collective heart was to call on all Christians to unite on the basis of restoring New Testament faith and practices.

Two of the propositions one of the founders of the movement, Thomas Campbell, penned in his Declaration and Address in 1809 remain important precepts in Churches of Christ DNA and build into our view of how the work of mission should be understood today:

For all people

That the church of Christ upon earth (meaning the whole church Jesus founded across all time and places and not just the organisation of which we are part) is essentially, intentionally, and constitutionally one; consisting of all those in every place that profess their faith in Christ and obedience to Him in all things according to the Scriptures.

In unity

That although the church of Christ upon earth must necessarily exist in particular and distinct societies, locally separate one from another, yet there ought to be no schisms, no uncharitable divisions among them... And for this purpose they ought all to walk by the same rule... and to be perfectly joined together in the same mind.

Working with our affiliated churches

Regional hubs

We have six regional clusters around Queensland each containing a number of regional hubs. Hubs are made up of leaders from local churches, care services and the broader community.
Hubs gather regularly for conversation around creating links, filling gaps, pursuing opportunities and extending our work of bringing the light of Christ into the community. Out of those conversation, a Regional Action Plan is agreed upon, and each hub develops an implementation plan to action items through research, networking, resource generation, and conversations in their community.

Regional engagement partners

We have six Regional Engagement Partners (REPs) located around Queensland to lead the work of the regional hubs and to ensure we remain strategic in the communities where we are present.
As senior ministering persons, our REPs are apostolic in their role – they are looking for where God is at work and for where the collective opportunities to forward our mission and vision lie.
The work of the REPs is based on relationship and networking, and they particularly seek to support leaders in our churches and services, helping nurture a Kingdom culture and the CofC values.
REPs look for creative ways to resource, equip and increase the impact of our work with the vulnerable and marginalised.

In all we do, our focus is to give people access to the Kingdom of God; and all Christ brings to bear in his mission as described in Luke 4:18-19.

About our affiliated churches