1541 Creek Road
Carina, 4152

Enter via Fursden Road.
Office phone: 3398 4333

Sunday service times: 9am and 6pm.

Our vision is to be an ever-growing community of people who love God and one another. Our mission is to make Christlike disciples in South-East Brisbane and Beyond. We seek to do this in a culture that is authentic, intentional, welcoming, encouraging and grace-filled. All of these are based on our foundational values of being biblical, Christ-centred and loving.

We gather together through the week in small groups and larger gatherings to know and worship God, to strive to care for each other, and to be equipped to serve God and those around us in various ways.

We come from different places, we are in different seasons of life, and we have different stories to tell. But we are joined together by our faith in Jesus Christ and in the hope that his death and resurrection offers to all who believe.

We want to welcome you to come and join us as we do all these things. No matter where you are from, no matter who you are, we would love to have you with us as we seek God together. May the Lord bless you and keep you, and we hope to see you soon.

LIFE GIVING GOD

The first pages of the Bible tell us that God is the living God who gives life to the world. It says he breathed life into Adam so that we humans are ‘living beings’ (Genesis 2:7). In Acts 17 when Paul speaks about our relationship to God as humans he says, ‘in him we live and breathe and have our being.’

Genesis 1 and 2 show us the one true God making a good and beautiful world for people to enjoy. He made everything in the world and he made it good. He made humanity to have a good and beautiful relationship with himself. He made a world where men and women could live together in safety and peace with everything they needed for eternal life.

A DEATHLY CHOICE

But death came into the world when Adam and Eve chose to live their own way instead of God’s way. Ever since then, all people everywhere have gone our own way instead of God’s way. This choice to choose a different path from God’s way is called ‘sin’. Because God is the source of all life, the consequence of choosing a different path from his way is death.

A LIFE GIVING STORY

The story of the Bible is the story of how God makes it possible for us to live with him eternally again. It tells of God’s ongoing relationship with people that he chose in his mercy and grace to be his people. It tells us of thousands of years of history until the coming of a saviour, Jesus Christ, who came to give us the gift of eternal life.

A LIFE GIVING SAVIOUR

Jesus taught people that they needed to ask for forgiveness for their sinful choices and to seek the kingdom of God. He taught that he was God’s Son, that he was God himself, and that it was only through him that God could be known. Through his death on the cross he paid the price for our sins, and he rose from the dead to defeat death. And he promised that all who believe in him would live forever. When we put our trust in the resurrected Jesus, and receive his Spirit we are born again to new life. We become ‘the living’ in a world that is dying; the living amongst the dead. Together, believers in Christ become a living church.

YOUR INVITATION

If you want to know more about this story, and why it’s so important for you, we’d love to have more of a chance to tell you all about it.

You can join us any Sunday at Carina or email us at hello@livingchurch.org.au and we will get in contact with you soon. 

SUNDAY SERVICE

It’s our hope that your visit is an encouraging and welcoming experience. But what else can you expect when you visit?

In our services:

• we sing songs that help us reflect on God;
• we talk to God in prayer;
• we hear some stories from our community;
• we have a creative Spotlight to help think creatively about the bible;
• we help kids engage with the bible in age appropriate ways
• we read from the bible;
• we hear a bible talk that helps us understand the bible, and it’s application in our lives;
• we spend time over refreshments catching up in community.

DURING THE WEEK

During the week, we encourage our people to meet in smaller communities called Growth Groups. Each growth group has it’s own culture and community, but they’re generally a space to dig a bit deeper into the bible, and live life together.

At Living Church, we believe everyone has a next step – it might be coming back next week, coming along to a Connect event where you can find out more about our church, joining a Growth Group, or finding a way to serve in a ministry team.

WHO DO I SPEAK TO

On Sundays, we have the Next Steps Desk where our team can answer your questions, and put you in contact with the right people. Or during the week, drop us a line, and we’re happy to help any way we can