Everyone Needs a Church to Belong To

We want to be a support to you on the My Kingdom Life journey by helping you connect to a Christian community where you can grow in your faith, walk with God, and relationships with other believers. 

One of the most important ways that we really deepen in our faith is by belonging to a church-body—a gathering of believers in Jesus—with whom we can love each other, learn together, and live out our faith in this world. God, the Father, has designed you to be in His family on earth, and He knows where you need to belong. We encourage you to seek Him to find the gathering of people that He has for you; He has a special place for you to belong. 

In the mean time, if you don't have a church-family yet, we welcome you to join with Kingdom City, Airdrie (AB, Canada), through our online broadcast on Sundays until you can find a local church for you to belong to. 

4 Steps to Finding a Church

To help you find a church near your location, we have provided some helpful guidelines to follow that will assist you in choosing a church to call “home.” It’s important that you take personal responsibility to find your church. We can help point the way, but only you and God can determine what church is best for you. Take these four steps, and believe that God will show you where He wants you:

1. Pray and ask God to actually lead you to the church He wants you to be part of.

2. Read the 8 Marks of a Good Church (below) and use this to help you in your search.

3. Attend a service of a church you want to check out, and ask to meet with a staff person after the service so you can get to know them and ask questions.

4. Make a decision to stay further in that church or to keep looking until you find where God is leading you. 

Pray

God, show me where and who the people are that you want me to connect with. Jesus, I believe there is a church for me to grow in and serve in and that You will send me there. Holy Spirit, please guide me now to that group of people as I look for them. I believe You are doing that right now. Amen.

8 Marks of a Good Church

Use the following markers to help you choose a good church. This is not a doctrinal statement, but a good guide to follow.

1. Jesus — The Lord Jesus Christ is the centre. He gets the focus and is glorified and exalted as the One who has given us salvation through His life, death, and resurrection.

2. Worship — God is worshipped in Spirit and Truth as the one true God, who exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Worship is done whole-heartedly, and in a way that is culturally authentic and sincere. 

3. Bible — The Bible is viewed as God’s inspired, trustworthy, and authoritative Word in all manners of teaching, beliefs, morality, and practice. The Bible is preached regularly. 

4. Baptism + Communion — The church celebrates both water baptism and communion (the Lord’s Supper).

5. Holy Spirit — The person and ministry of the Holy Spirit is taught and lived out so that believers may be filled, anointed, empowered to live for Jesus. The gifts of the Spirit are affirmed and released. 

6. Reaching — The church reaches out with the good news of the Gospel and demonstrates it with acts of compassion and love to the surrounding community it is in, and beyond. 

7. Disciples — The church seeks to make and grow disciples (followers of Jesus) in its ministries.

8. Honour — The church seeks to be honourable and above reproach in its organization and legal affairs. 

We trust that God will lead and guide you to the right group of people, the right church, and the right Christian community so that you can grow further in your Kingdom Life in Jesus!