Christ Covenant Community Church is a warm, sincere body of Christians who want to serve God in every area of our lives. We are far from perfect, but we are all striving to become more like Jesus, who made us, saved us, and sends his Spirit to help us to grow more like Him.
Take some time to get to know us on our site, but even better, stop in and visit us–everyone is welcome!
Our Meetings:
Sunday School: Sunday Morning at 9:00
Sunday Service: Sunday Morning at 10:30
Fellowship Dinner: Weekly after church
Wednesday Service: Weekly at 6:30 pm
We are located at the corner of North Main Street and Berkeley Ave, in Hendersonville, NC.
Everyone is eagerly welcomed to our services, since the family of God is not limited by race, color, income or personal history. We are eager that our congregation would reflect the cultural diversity that we see in the book of Revelations, where people of every language and nation worship God in unity. We also offer God’s love to those of any background; there is no sin or lifestyle that God cannot forgive and redeem.
Week to week, we have all kinds of people in our small congregation, and we seek to show love to all. Some grew up in the faith, while most came to Christ as adults. Every member is another example of the truth that God can save anyone, no matter how “messed up” they are.
We are not perfect, and we don’t pretend to be, but God’s perfection is the goal we are striving towards together.
Come as you are. We welcome you to join us as we seek God together.
Our goal is that every service brings honor to God by helping people to see Him more clearly and praise Him with more depth, reverence and joy.
To do this, we blend both ancient and modern elements, always trying to keep the service fresh and sincere. We often adjust the order of service to avoid stale routine, but we always look to the Bible as our guide.
Our Sunday services usually contain the following elements; click on each one to learn more:
One of the members reads a passage of scripture intended to inspire, encourage and remind us to worship. Sometimes there is also a verbal response from the congregation. The call is different each week, pointing our minds and hearts towards the Creator.
Since the goal of our service is to draw closer to God, we honor Him frequently in prayer. We ask Him to reveal Himself through His word as it is read and preached. We ask Him to send the Holy Spirit in power to renew our hearts, elevating our souls as we worship. We plead with Him on behalf of the problems of the world, that He would show His mercy, love and justice, and that he would prepare and send out His church to accomplish His work.
A variety of members pray during the service, prayers worshiping God for who He is, thanking Him for what He has done, repenting of and confessing our sins, and asking Him to act mightily in our lives and around the world.
We enjoy praising God through a variety of traditional hymns and modern worship songs. The goal of singing is to honor God and elevate our spirits towards Him, adoring who He is and what He does. We refer to this here as singing, rather than worship, because we believe that every element of the service is worship–prayers, singing, preaching, reading and communion.
Believing that our focus must be on praising God rather than pleasing our own tastes, we focus more on the content of the songs than on the musical style. All of our songs are chosen with the philosophy that a good song lifts our emotions towards God first by the truth of the lyrics, and then by the melodies and music.
Our musicians use piano, guitars and percussion to lead the congregation in singing.
Because we believe that God speaks to us through His word, we make Bible reading a prominent part of our services. A variety of members take turns week to week, usually reading one chapter of the Old Testament. Sometimes we read it with some commentary and explanation, striving to understand the whole of God’s word as it applies to our lives. Other times we just read the text without comment and ask God that His Spirit would give us understanding and help us apply it.
Each week in our service, the sermon is a significant part of our worship. The teaching elder reads a passage from the Bible and explains it thoroughly, but the sermon is not a lecture. The sermon is a time of instructing our minds by the truth, and applying that truth to our hearts and lives. The sermon teaches what a passage means within the context of the whole Bible, and through the work of God’s Spirit, it does three basic things:
In some ways, celebrating the Lord’s Supper is the centerpiece, or culmination, of our service. We celebrate this beautiful sacrament each week, using it as a time of reflection, repentance, healing and restoration. None of us are worthy to take the bread and wine, yet Jesus invited us to it. In these elements we see the righteous judgement of God meet the mercy of God; we are broken, and we are healed.
In the bread we see the broken body of Christ, bearing the penalty of sin so that we don’t have to. In the wine, we see Jesus’ blood that was shed to create a new covenant–a new promise–that we will be made new and live forever with Him in paradise. Rather than just merely observing and remembering, we eat the bread, dipped in the wine, to participate more fully in what Jesus did for us.
Because we believe that this celebration is a solemn and weighty privilege, we ask that each one seriously examine his or her conscience before participating. It is only for those who recognize their absolute need of God and rely on Christ for salvation.
Each week we read aloud together various texts. This is much more than empty ritual or dry recital; this is another aspect of worship, another way to express our faith in community. Together, we make prayers of repentance in this way. We also read from historic creeds, confessions and catechisms together.
As we speak out these truths, we seek to do so with conviction and enthusiasm, reminding ourselves and each other of the solemn, glorious and joyful truths that we believe.
Each week we share a meal together after the morning service. This is a sweet and joyful time when we build deep, genuine relationships and share our lives. Even this is a form of worship, as we live out God’s command to love one another, care for one another, encourage one another, and so on.
We ask everyone who attends regularly to contribute to this meal by bringing a dish to share with others. Of course, cleaning up is also a community project!
