Who is The Gathering Church

We’re a family of people dedicated to following Jesus and seeing our region reborn

Our Vision

Our vision is to see our region reborn: every community renewed by Jesus.

The Gathering was started with the passion of seeing our region reborn. We are more than a building or a religion—We’re a family committed to transforming the forgotten people and neighborhoods of our towns with the love and message of Jesus.

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Our Mission

Our vision and mission go hand in hand. One can’t be done without the other. We believe that our vision is what God wants to see happen through The Gathering, while our mission includes the action-steps He’s given us to take to see the vision come to pass.

Love God. God wants to know us personally.
Live Free. God wants to set us free from our yesterdays.
Make Disciples. God calls us to make disciples of Jesus.

Our Values

We live like…

We’re God’s kids
We’re family
We’re passionately generous
We’re privileged to serve
We’re disciple makers

Our Beliefs

The Bible
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the complete, divinely inspired, infallible Word of God. The Bible is the supreme authority and guide for our Christian faith and living.

The Godhead
There is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

The Father
The first person of the Godhead orders and directs all things according to His own purpose and pleasure. He authored, created, and sustains all things in the universe without any means other than His own pure power. By His grace, He involves Himself in the affairs of men, hears and answers prayer, and saves from sin and death all that come to Him through Jesus Christ.

The Lord Jesus Christ
He existed eternally as the second person of the Godhead. By His virgin birth He came to earth as fully God and fully man, living a sinless life. His death on the cross made atonement for man’s sin, evidenced by His bodily resurrection from the dead. He physically ascended to the right hand of God the Father, and He will return in power and glory.

The Holy Spirit
The third person of the Godhead convicts men of sin, regenerates, baptizes, indwells, instructs, and sets apart believers unto a holy life. We encourage all believers to seek a life of obedience to the leadership of the Holy Spirit. We believe this step is essential for empowering believers for victorious living and ministry through the gifts given by the Holy Spirit.

The Nature of Man
Man was directly created in God’s image, voluntarily fell into sin by personal disobedience to the will of God; consequently, all men are spiritually dead apart from Jesus Christ. The fall of man was a once-for-all historical fact. Its effect spread to all men, each of whom is born with a sinful nature and is in need of salvation.

Salvation
Salvation is by grace, a gift of God apart from works. Salvation requires repentance; a turning from one’s own way to God’s way. All who receive Jesus Christ are born-again, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and become the children of God. We will manifest true salvation by a changed life.

The Church
The church is the body of believers consisting of all born-again persons without respect to race, culture, or background. Directed by Jesus Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit, the Church is taking the good news of salvation to the whole world. Our Fellowship is inclusive rather than exclusive and stresses love for God and one another, the unity of all believers, and obedience to the Holy Spirit.

Eternal Life
We believe Jesus is preparing a place for us and that He will literally come back again. We believe heaven and hell are real places. We believe those in Christ will live with Him forever and those who reject Christ as Savior will be separated from Him forever.

Our Location

We meet and worship at the historic Fox Theatre in downtown Newton, Kansas. The building was originally opened as the Royal Theatre back in 1914 and operated as a movie theatre until 1999. We hope to use this piece of our town’s history to shape an even brighter and more hopeful future.

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