Who We Are
We hope you will consider being part of what God is doing through our community, ministries, and mission.
Our mission is to follow Christ in his mission of loving people, places, and things to life.
Three Congregations, One Church
We believe it’s important to be fully present with the church every Sunday. We welcome you to attend any of our in-person services, or online when you are out of town!
Christ Pres has several worship locations around Nashville, all of which are part of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Nashville Presbytery.
Our Story
Serving Greater Nashville For Over 40 Years
Since our first gathering in 1981, Christ Presbyterian Church has grown from a mobile congregation meeting at Hillsboro High School to a permanent home on Old Hickory Boulevard. We've expanded our impact through Christ Presbyterian Academy, continuously evolving under the leadership of visionary pastors. Our commitment to spreading faith and nurturing community led us to become a multi-site church, further deepening our outreach throughout Nashville.
Our Values
Through Christ and by his Spirit, God has made us his daughters and sons.
Therefore, by his grace:
- We will seek to love God first and love God most.
- We will rest and live in the peace of the Father, majoring in the majors and minoring in the minors.
- We will rest and live in the love of Christ, as a people of grace.
- We will rest and live in the ways of the Spirit, as a people of truth.
In love, Christ gave his life for every type of person.
Therefore, by his grace:
- We will settle for nothing less than healthy, life-giving community with each other.
- We will be hospitable and thoughtful toward all of our guests.
- We will treat our non-Christian friends and neighbors with love, dignity, and respect.
- We will give special care to the weak and the poor.
God is making all things new through Christ.
Therefore, by his grace:
- We will seek the peace and prosperity of Nashville and from Nashville, the world.
- We will seek to be good neighbors in every place, inside and outside of our homes.
- We will treat the workplace as a significant and strategic realm for discipleship and mission.
- We will work for the renewal of broken neighborhoods and institutions.
All things were created by Christ and for Christ.
Therefore, by his grace:
- We will resist greed and encourage simple generous living.
- We will manage and share the resources God entrusts to us responsibly and faithfully.
- We will seek to do a few things with excellence, versus many things with mediocrity.
- We will take responsibility to care for all of God’s creation.
Our Vision
At Christ Presbyterian Church, we are a family united in Christ that aspires to be led by Scripture. Together, we will look to the Father’s perfect Word as given in the Old and New Testaments—and as interpreted by the historic ecumenical creeds and protestant reformed confessions—to form our spiritual life. We will look to Jesus, the Son of God and Savior of sinners, to forgive our sins, refresh our spirits, ignite our worship, and transform our character. We will prayerfully depend on the Holy Spirit, whose power raised Jesus from the dead, to also empower us to live resurrected lives, loving God with our whole selves and our neighbor as ourselves.
Because Christ’s church is called to be a family, we will aspire to share life with one another. In our beliefs and teaching, we will unite around Scripture’s essential truths, while promoting liberty around things about which Scripture is flexible or silent. In our worship, we will honor God, gather weekly around the Lord’s Table, and create belonging for one another and our guests. In our life together, we will honor one another above ourselves as we pursue the Father’s vision for welcoming, listening to, loving, confessing, forgiving, serving, comforting, sharing burdens with, caring and praying for, remaining loyal to, and spurring on the best in one another. We will celebrate our diversity—opening our lives and hearts and homes to sinners and saints, doubters and believers, seekers and skeptics, prodigals and Pharisees, Presbyterians and non-Presbyterians, young and old, married and unmarried, leaders and followers, famous and infamous, our own and other ethnicities, nationalities, and cultures, happy and depressed, helpers and those who need help, creative and corporate, conservative and liberal, affluent and bankrupt, addicted and sober, public and private and home schooled—and all others who enter our doors. We will aspire to expand our ‘us’ by carefully listening to, learning from, and being shaped by one another’s unique experiences and perspectives.
As a church rooted in Jesus Christ—who taught that it is more blessed to give than it is to receive and that greatness is found through serving—we will aspire to give ourselves away. Indeed, our ‘conservative’ belief that every word of Scripture is right and good and true, will compel us toward ‘liberal’ lives of generosity and love. We will aim to live not only for ourselves, but as partakers in a movement of God’s Kingdom. God, because he loves us, sweeps us up and includes us—along with all of his children everywhere—in his mission of loving people, places, and things to life. As his beloved ambassadors, he sends us out to ‘so love the world,’ in hopes of leaving the world better than we found it. We hope to be part of something that adds such value to our city that if Christians disappeared, the whole city would weep.
Because Jesus called us to let our light shine before men that they may see our good deeds and glorify our Father in heaven, our faith will be a public faith. We will aspire to love and serve all our neighbors in the places where we live, work, and play. We will host and encourage civil conversations that unite believers, seekers, and non-believers around shared interests, in hopes that the truth, beauty, love, and justice of God will be brought to bear on the most central and pressing issues of our time. We will host life-giving parties for our city and our neighbors as a sign of God’s Kingdom, and of how heaven rejoices when prodigals come home and cynics lay down their defenses and join the celebration.
Although Jesus reserves membership in His church and participation in his Table for those who trust him and seek to obey Scripture, we will join Jesus in befriending those who do not believe as we do. We will welcome all people into our worship services, parties, conversations, homes and lives, including those who have misgivings or doubts about the beliefs, ethics, generosity, self-denial, and counter-cultural nature of historic Christianity.
As Christ’s ambassadors to our neighbors in need, we will aspire to live lives of mercy and justice. We will give special attention to, and generously channel our resources toward improving conditions and systems—whether spiritual, social, economic or vocational—for the poor, immigrants and refugees, ethnic and other minorities, and others who lack resources, opportunity, or privilege. We will embrace the idea that as conditions improve for those who have power, conditions must also improve for those who lack power, and never at their expense. For wealth, privilege and power are given to be stewarded and shared for the benefit of all, not protected and kept merely for the benefit of some.
As those who have been called into the world by Christ to serve him in our work, we will aspire to eliminate the false dichotomy of sacred versus secular. We will affirm that every good work—whether creative or restorative—is no less God’s work than the work of pastors and missionaries. We will commit our resources to train, equip, and resource Christians for the integration of faith and work, in hopes that people and institutions representing church, business, education, the social sector, arts and entertainment, government and media, and other channels of influence—will approach their work with tenacity, purpose, and confidence that their work contributes meaningfully to God’s mission to heal the world.
Finally, because God’s Kingdom is much greater than a single church, we will pray and work for the flourishing of all people and not just our people; of all churches and not just our church; of all cities and not just our city; and of all nations and not just our nation. We will do this chiefly by making disciples, equipping leaders, creating and sharing content, and starting new, like-minded congregations—including cross-denominational and multi-ethnic ones—throughout greater Nashville and across the globe. Because our city is a strategic hub for multiple spheres of impact, we will expect any movement of God’s Kingdom in greater Nashville to also extend beyond Nashville to the world. We will pursue and embrace opportunities to share our resources and capital—whether spoken, written, creative, financial, relational, professional or otherwise—toward Jesus’ vision to bless and heal the world. As we do this, we will celebrate wherever, whenever, and through whomever God chooses to grow his Kingdom. And never, under any circumstances, will we concern ourselves with who gets the attention or the credit. Our task is to advance his fame and glory, and not our own. For it is from him, and to him, and through him that are all things. Amen.
What We Believe
We embrace Biblical and historic Christianity as expressed in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and as summarized in the Nicene and Apostles’ Creeds. Additionally, we affirm the five tenets of the Protestant Reformation: Scripture alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, and to God alone be the glory.
Campus Pastors
Dr. David Filson
Interim Senior Pastor, Old Hickory Blvd
Russ Ramsey
Lead Pastor, Cool Springs
Stacey Croft
Lead Pastor, Music Row