Church Profile
Service Times
We meet on Sunday nights at The Riff music venue in Springfield, MO for outreach to the community and we meet in homes and coffee shops for discipleship groups.
(818) 324-0105
Lead Pastors Jeff and Lisa Fischer
Our Mission
Know Jesus. Show Jesus. Share Jesus.
Unite exists to awaken people to the love of Jesus that unites us all and ignite a disciple making movement that changes the world.
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About Unite Church
Unite Church exists to awaken people to the love of Jesus that unites us all and ignite a disciple making movement that changes the world. We do not have traditional services. We unite the body of Christ from different churches across Springfield on Sunday nights for worship, connection and a place to invite those who would never set foot in a traditional church. We host free Christian concerts at the Riff every Sunday night, including worship and testimonies and a short gospel message. We end in time of prayer response. We connect people to each other and to Jesus. We meet for discipleship in homes and coffee shops during the week. We also gather worship musicians from around Springfield together once a month as a ministry to the ministers and provide opportunities for them to bring the gospel message to the city through worship evangelism.
Denomination / Affiliation:
Foursquare Gospel
Service and Sermon Style:
Spirit-led Preaching
Dress Style:
casual
Average Age of Attendees:
20-30
Community Projects:
0-12
Primary Language:
English
Other Language Services:
English
MINISTRIES AND GROUPS
Church Ministries
Small Groups
We offer the following groups for community and discipleship:
Supper Club- Tuesday nights at 6:30pm at Pastor Jeff & Lisa's home
Doubters Club- Last Thursday of the month at 11am- Travellers Coffee in BoomerTown across from MSU
Youth Discovery Bible Study
Women's Discovery Bible Study
Chinese exchange students Discovery Bible Study
Youth girls Discovery Bible Study
College Women Discovery Bible Study- Mondays and Fridays
Unite Worship Collective- 2nd Tuesday of the Month at Pastor Jeff & Lisa's home
We partner with other ministries in the area to engage in services to the public such as the Elevate Lives and The Veterans Coming Home Center
BELIEFS
We are a Foursquare Church. Here is our statement of faith:
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
We believe that the Holy Bible is the Word of the living God; true, immutable, steadfast
THE ETERNAL GODHEAD
We believe that there is but one true and living God; and that in the unity of the Godhead there are three, equal in every divine perfection executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
THE FALL OF MAN
We believe that man was created in the image of God, before whom he walked in holiness and purity, but that by voluntary disobedience and transgression, he fell from the Eden of purity and innocence to the depths of sin and iniquity, and that in consequence of this, all mankind are
sinners sold unto Satan, positively inclined to evil, guilty and without excuse, justly deserving the condemnation of a just and holy God.
THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION
We believe that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us, the Just for the unjust; freely, and by divine appointment of the Father, taking the sinner’s place, bearing his sins, receiving his condemnation, dying his death, fully paying his penalty, and signing with His life’s blood, the pardon of every one who should believe upon Him; that upon simple faith and acceptance of the atonement purchased on Mount Calvary, the vilest sinner may be cleansed of his iniquities and made whiter than snow
SALVATION THROUGH GRACE
We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly through grace; we must come pleading the merits and the righteousness of Christ the Savior, standing upon His word and accepting the free gift of love and pardon
REPENTANCE AND ACCEPTANCE
We believe that upon sincere repentance, godly sorrow for sin, and a whole-hearted acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ, they who call upon Him may be justified by faith, through His precious blood and that in place of condemnation they may have the most blessed peace, assurance and favor with God; that with open arms of mercy and pardon the Savior waits to receive each penitent who will in unfeigned contrition and supplication for mercy, open the door of his heart and accept Him as Lord and King.
DAILY CHRISTIAN LIFE
We believe that having been cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ and having received the witness of the Holy Spirit at conversion, it is the will of God that we be sanctified daily and become partakers of His holiness; growing constantly stronger in faith, power, prayer, love and service.
WATER BAPTISM AND THE LORD’S SUPPER
We believe that water baptism in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost according to the command of our Lord, is a blessed outward sign of an inward work.
We believe in the commemoration and observing of the Lord’s supper by the sacred use of the broken bread, a precious type of the Bread of Life, even Jesus Christ, whose body was broken for us; and by the juice of the vine, a blessed type which should ever remind the participant of the shed blood of the Savior and that the serving and receiving of this blessed sacrament should be ever preceded by the most solemn heart-searching, self-examination, forgiveness and love toward all men, that none partake unworthily and drink condemnation to his own soul.
THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
We believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the incoming of the promised Comforter in mighty and glorious fullness to endue the believer with power from on high; to glorify and exalt the Lord Jesus; to give inspired utterance in witnessing of Him; to foster the spirit of prayer,
holiness, sobriety; to equip the individual and the Church for practical, efficient, joyous, Spirit-filled soul-winning in the fields of life.
THE SPIRIT-FILLED LIFE
We believe that it is the will of God that we live and walk in the Spirit, moment by moment, under the precious blood of the Lamb; being patient, loving,
truthful, sincere, prayerful, not murmuring, instant in season and out of season, serving the Lord.
THE GIFTS AND FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
We believe that the Holy Spirit has the following gifts to bestow upon the believing church of the Lord Jesus Christ: wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment, tongues, interpretation; that according to the degree of grace and faith possessed by the recipient, these gifts are divided to every man severally, as He, the Holy Spirit, wills; that they are to be most earnestly desired and coveted, in the order and proportion wherein they prove most edifying and beneficial to the church; and that the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, should be put forth, cultivated, and diligently guarded as the resultant adornment, the irrefutable evidence of a Spirit-filled life.
MODERATION
We believe that the moderation of the believer should be known of all men; that his experience and daily walk should never lead him into extremes, fanaticism, unseemly manifestations, backbitings, murmurings.
DIVINE HEALING
We believe that divine healing is the power of the Lord Jesus Christ to heal the sick and the afflicted in answer to believing prayer; that He who is the same yesterday, today and forever has never changed but is still an all-sufficient help in the time of trouble, able to meet the needs of, and quicken the body into newness of life, as well as the soul and spirit in answer to the faith of them who ever pray with submission to His divine and sovereign will.
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST
We believe that the second coming of Christ is personal and imminent; that He will descend from Heaven in the clouds of glory with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God; and that at this hour, which no man knoweth beforehand, the dead in Christ shall rise, then the redeemed
that are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and that so shall they ever be with the Lord; that also seeing that a thousand years is as a day with the Lord, and that no man knoweth the hour of His appearance, which we believe to be
near at hand, each day should be lived as though He were expected to appear at even, yet that in obedience to His explicit command, “Occupy till I come,” the work of spreading the gospel, the sending forth of missionaries, and the general duties for the upbuilding of the church should be
carried on as diligently, and thoroughly.
CHURCH RELATIONSHIP
We believe that having accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as personal Savior and King, and having thus been born into the family and invisible body or church of the Lord, it is the sacred duty of the believer, whenever this lies within his power, to identify himself with, and labor most earnestly for the upbuilding of God’s kingdom with the visible church of Christ upon the earth; and that such visible church is a congregation of believers, who have associated themselves together in Christian fellowship and in the unity of the Spirit, observing the ordinances of Christ, worshipping
Him in the beauty of holiness, speaking to each other in psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs, reading and proclaiming His Word, laboring for the salvation of souls, giving their temporal means to carry on His work, edifying, encouraging, establishing one another in the most holy faith, and
working harmoniously together as dear children who are many members but one body of which Christ is head.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT
We believe that the civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; and that governors and rulers should be prayed for, obeyed, and upheld, at all times except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the ruler of the conscience of His people, the King of Kings, and the Lord of Lords.
JUDGEMENT
We believe that the dead both small and great shall be raised up and stand with the living before the judgement seat of God; and that then a solemn and lawful separation shall take place wherein the wicked shall be adjudged to everlasting punishment and the righteous to life eternal; and that this judgement will fix forever the final state of men in heaven or in hell on principles of righteousness as set forth in His holy Word.
HEAVEN
We believe that Heaven is the indescribably glorious habitation of the living God; and that thither the Lord has gone to prepare a place for His children; that unto this four-square city, whose builder and maker is God, the earnest believers who have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb and have overcome by the word of their testimony will be carried; that the Lord Jesus Christ will present them to the Father without spot or wrinkle; and that there is unutterable joy when they will ever behold His wonderful face, in an everlasting kingdom where unto comes no darkness nor night, neither sorrow, tears, pain, nor death, and wherein hosts of attending angels sweep their harps, sing the praises of our King, and bowing down before the throne, cry: “Holy, holy, holy.”
HELL
We believe that hell is a place of outer darkness and deepest sorrow, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched; a place prepared for the devil and his angels, where there shall be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, a place of grief and eternal regret on the part of them who have rejected the mercy, love and tenderness of the crucified Savior, choosing death rather than life; and that there into a 2lake that burns with fire and brimstone shall be cast the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, sorcerers, idolaters, all liars, and they who have rejected and spurned the love and sacrifice of a bleeding Redeemer, — passing the cross to their doom, in spite of every entreaty and warning of the Holy Spirit.
EVANGELISM
We believe that seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, and that the end of all things is at hand, the redeemed children of the Lord Jehovah
should rise and shine forth as a light that cannot be hid, a city set upon a hill, speeding forth the gospel to the ends of the earth, girding the globe with the message of salvation, declaring with burning zeal and earnestness the whole counsel of God that when the Lord of Glory shall appear, they shall be found standing, with their loins girded about with truth, their activities and ministry laden down with the wealth of jewels they have won and guarded for Him, the precious souls, whom, by their faithful testimony they have been instrumental in leading from darkness into light; that soul winning is the one big business of the Church upon earth; and that therefore every weight and hindrance which would tend to quench the flame or hamper the efficiency of world-wide evangelism should be cut off and cast away as unworthy of the Church, detrimental to the most sacred cause of Christ and contrary to the great commission by our Lord.
TITHING AND OFFERINGS
We believe that the method ordained of God to sustain His ministry and the spread of the gospel after His command is “Tithing” and is generally accepted throughout all Foursquare churches, not only as God’s method to take care of the material and financial needs of His Church, but to raise
the spiritual morale of His people to the extent that God must bless them. We are commanded in Malachi 3:10, “‘Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this’, Says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And
pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it.’” In the matter of “giving” and “free will offerings,” they are ordered of the Lord and practiced in all Foursquare churches as part of God’s plan for the church’s material needs and the spirituality of His people. We are admonished in Luke 6:38, “Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Being “joint heirs” with Him we know that giving unto
His kingdom which is also ours is an enjoyable thing, it being more blessed to give than to receive, for we are commanded in II Corinthians 9:7,“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.”
Primary Bible Version Used:
New International Version
Baptism:
Older Children/adults
Communion Frequency:
Occasionally
Eternal Security:
Yes, Can Lose
Healing and Charismatic Gifts:
Open But Cautious
Regularly Practice:
Altar Call or Invitation
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Unite Church is a Non-Denominational Church located in Zip Code 65807.
Church Profile Manager: Lisa Fischer