Crossroads is an interdenominational church started to help show the relevance of God in real life. The objective of the church is to create an informal environment for learning about God through up-to-date music, practical real-life messages and the development of authentic relationships.

Our mission: connecting seekers with a community of growing Christ-followers.

...are the application of biblical truth through the unique personality of Crossroads. We remember these 7 Hills as ABCDERG (we really did try to find an "F" to fit, but finally gave up and went on to other things):

Authenticity

Somewhere along the way church became known as a place where people that are really good at faking get together to compare notes.  As “a real place for real people” we believe we can’t be what God has called us to be if we play games with each other.  Whether it’s what happens on stage, within our A-teams and serving teams or in our homes, we need to be able to share our faults and weaknesses and not fake it.  That’s authenticity, just being real.

Biblical Truth 

Crossroads is a place for people on every part of the spiritual journey, from those just investigating whether there is a God, to those who have made following Christ the priority of their life.  This is a safe place for everyone.  But safe doesn’t mean serenity.  The Bible presents a dangerous message of life change.  We don’t assume everyone believes, or even knows the Bible, but we do assume everyone who comes through our doors is open to exploring it. We believe the Bible is God’s inerrant truth and it is foundational to everything we do.

Culturally Current Communication

"Why did they do that?"  "What does that have to do with church?"  How many times have you heard (or thought) that after you saw something during a service here at Crossroads?  Maybe it was a movie clip from "Tommy Boy" or a song by The Dave Matthews Band or an artist’s painting in the lobby.  Stuff that seemed to be the last thing you would have expected in church.  Well, believe it or not, there is a reason for all of this.  There is a method to the madness.  It’s one of our 7 Hills - Culturally Current Communication.

Crossroads is a place that helps connect those who are spiritually exploring God’s love and truth. To do this, we’re committed to doing anything short of sin to help people connect God’s timeless truth from the Bible with their day-to-day life.  The challenge for us is that the Bible was written a long time ago for people in another culture.   The fact that we are in Cincinnati in the twenty first century doesn’t change the message that God gave 2000 years ago, but it does mean that we need to do some work to connect it to our lives today.  That’s what we mean by "Culturally Current Communication."

It’s nothing new.  It’s the kind of thing the Bible referred to in Ecclesiastes 12:10 which says, "The teacher searched to find just the right words."  In fact, it’s exactly what Jesus did.  Whether it was stories about sheep and goats, vineyard workers, or a guy who throws a party, Jesus used the current language and daily life of those around him to communicate truth. 

And this doesn’t just apply to what we do at church.  It’s the way we need to live our lives if God is going to use us to be communication bridges of his love and truth.  So whether it’s the music at our weekend service, a brochure at the Info Center or the way we connect with our friends that don’t know Christ, we need to be about bringing God’s timeless truth in a timely way to those around us.  That’s culturally current communication.

Doing Life Together

We aren’t interested in being a church where a lot of people get together for an inspiring service but never move beyond the casual arm' s distance relationships of an auditorium.  We want to grow by really "doing life together."  Community is knowing and being known, loving and being loved, celebrating and being celebrated, and serving and being served.  Those people who really grow at Crossroads are those who move beyond the auditorium through serving and/or being part of an A-team and building friendships in which all of these happen.

Excellence

We don’t believe in striving for unrealistic perfection.  We do believe excellence is about bringing your best to God’s work and to life in general.  Whenever we do anything as a church we want to bring our "A game."  Whether it’s our communication and music, how we hold babies in the nursery or how we take care of the building, we want it to reflect this.

Reproduction

Reproduction is about recognizing something that God has created and then going about being a tool when He reproduces that element in other places.  Crossroads wants to be a place where Christ-followers reproduce Christ-followers; leaders reproduce leaders and churches reproduce other churches.

Growth

We don’t expect everyone who walks into Crossroads to be a committed Christ-follower.  But we do expect everyone who is around our community for any length of time to be growing.  We expect every person to be moving closer to being the complete image of Christ in every area of life.  When it isn’t happening we need to ask why.  The answers aren’t always comfortable.   In fact we often grow only when we are pushed out of our comfort zone.

For more info on what we believe, check out our Statement of Faith.