Our Distinctives

We believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord, who was crucified, died, and was buried, and rose again on the third day; and in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting.

Unbelievers are welcome among us, but they are walking into our house, not a neutral one. Christ is Lord over all of it — the meal, the game, the friendship, the conversation. All of Christ for all of life.

Sunday is the peak of the week. The center of the Christian life is the worship of God with the covenant people in his local church. Everything else flows out from that summit — including us.

Cross-Connection is not a church. We do not teach, we do not exercise authority, and we are not a substitute for your congregation. We are the overflow: what you receive on the Lord's Day spills out into the rest of the week, into friendship and feasting and work and play. That spillage is what we are for.

We sing at every event. Every gathering, every time.

Joy is commanded — “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” — and a command can be obeyed. Joy is not a temperament you happen to have. It is something you go to work on. So we make a joyful noise. We feast. We give thanks out loud. We repent quickly and we laugh often. We as Christians are to be the most joyful people in any room.

Cross-Connection exists to connect Christians across the churches of North Alabama — Presbyterian, Baptist, Anglican, and more.

We want a Huntsville where a Christian cannot help but find his people — where the churches of this city know each other and hold the ground together. Many churches, one Lord, one city.

It is the first thing in all of Scripture that God calls not good: that the man should be alone. He did not counsel Adam to wait until he felt ready.

So we say it plainly: marry, and marry young. Men, pursue. Women, be pursued. We will put you shoulder to shoulder with men and women who love Christ, and we will tell you what the goal is — a household. One that hosts, that feeds people, that raises children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, and that holds ground across generations. This is the ordinary engine of the Kingdom's growth, and the Great Commission starts at your own table.