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Welcome to the online home for ComChurch Irving. We are a small group of people who recently left our church and homes in College Station, TX and moved to Irving to try to create something similar. We've had a hard time explaining what it is we are doing here. You could say we are planting a church, but that conjures up all sorts of models, methods and systems that we probably do not fit into. We've tried using the words house church, but that also brings its own set of presuppositions.
So the best way we can describe what we are doing is that we are a group of people committed to following Christ together. We believe our goal in this life is to become more and more like Jesus. And so we do life together, encouraging each other and walking along side each other toward that goal.Because we are young and few, we have received permission to copy some text from the website of our home church in College Station (www.comchurch.com). So please forgive our plagiarism (although it's not really plagiarism if you have permission, right?) We believe this is a well-written introduction to who ComChurch is and who we want to continue to be.
We have tried to figure out if a website can accurately convey the true personality of a church community or, more particularly, of this church community. It turns out it probably can't.
It's not so much that we're too complex or too hip to describe. It's just that we believe the local church is more of a who than a what, and words often come up short in describing people. Organizations are usually easier to define. People you have to get to know.
That difference is at the heart of why Community Church exists. We are committed to the idea that the local church is not primarily an organization or a place, but a living, dynamic community of people devoted to one another and to the mission of Jesus in the world. That mission is simple, but not easy. It is a mission given to us by the one who ate with the characters on the margins of society, loved the people who good folks hated, and gave all of himself so that his friends and enemies could truly live.
We dont have this way of life perfected, and we're certainly far from being perfect people. We just don't know of a better way to live than to love one another as though each one matters and to follow the way of Jesus, who was and is the life that is really life.