About Us
What matters most
City North Church cares about one thing more than anything else: knowing Jesus Christ. We are a family of individuals that have found hope in Jesus, and simply want as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom. It doesn't matter where He finds you, its where He takes you that is most awesome.
Where we came from
In 2020 a few of us moved state, set down roots in beautiful Glenorchy, Tasmania and planted a church. We began meeting together in a small room at the back of the local library and the rest is, as they say, history. We are part of the fellowship of independent evangelical churches known as FIEC and believe that the bible is God’s living and active Words to us today.
Where we're headed
Glenorchy city is home to more than 55,000 people. We want to be a church for those people, a church that brings good news of hope for anyone who wants to hear it. Our belief is God will save many, bringing them out of darkness and into his wonderful light. We take ownership for the part God wants us to be in that.
What we believe
These are the core tenants of our faith and that of the FIEC fellowship
About God
There is one unique and eternal God, who exists in an everlasting loving relationship of Father, Son and Spirit - one God in three persons.
God is sovereign in all things: including creation, revelation, redemption, judgement and the establishing of his kingdom.
As sovereign loving creator and redeemer, he is worthy of all glory, honour and praise.
About Jesus
Jesus Christ was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary.
He is both fully God and truly human. He entered fully into human experience. He endured temptation and he suffered and died. He was perfectly obedient to God his Father.
Jesus took on himself the consequences of human sin. He died and was buried. On the third day he rose from the dead bodily. He ascended to the right hand of God the Father and is now exalted as ruler over all.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.
About Humanity
Men and women together are created in the image of God, and therefore enjoy a unique dignity in creation and a unique relationship with God. Men and women together have dominion over the created order.
Marriage is a gift of God and is modelled on the union of Christ and his church. It is the union of one man and one woman voluntarily entered into for life.
Tragically, human nature is universally sinful since the Fall and all are guilty before God. This leaves us under the wrath and condemnation of God.
We are unable, without the prior regenerative work of God's Spirit, to turn ourselves to God.
About Salvation
There is only one name under heaven by which people can be brought into relationship with God: the name 'Jesus Christ'.
It is only through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, that the guilt, penalty and power of sin can be removed. In that death, God demonstrates his love to us most perfectly and establishes his victory over Satan and all his foes.
The work of the Holy Spirit is necessary to make the death of Jesus effective in an individual's life. This work is only applied to those ‘appointed to eternal life’ by the Father; an appointment that occurred before the creation of the world and not based on foreseen virtue, merit, or faith in those appointed.
The Spirit irresistibly enables the sinner to repent and put their faith in Jesus Christ, and persevere in that faith, so that salvation is entirely of God's grace and not of human merit or works.
We enjoy now the blessing of union with Christ and secure relationship with God, while we await the final consummation of our hope with the return of Christ, the resurrection of our bodies and life with him eternally. God has destined that there be only one people of God (Jew and Gentile) united by faith in Jesus for all time.
The Bible
There is no other way to know God except that he reveals himself to us. The Bible is God’s revelation to us. The words of the Bible are divinely inspired and infallible, as originally given, and have supreme authority in all matters of faith, conduct and experience.
The Bible is sufficient for knowing God. It is not only central to the wellbeing of the church but is able to thoroughly equip the Christian community for life and godliness.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is co-equal with the Father and the Son, and indwells all true believers.
His role is to bring glory to Jesus Christ, thus making Jesus Christ central in all things.
The Spirit works to illuminate believers’ minds to grasp the truth of the Bible, producing in them his fruit, granting them his gifts and empowering them for service.
He grants his gifts for the purpose of service, not self-indulgence. Their use is determined - not by personal desire for fulfilment, or satisfaction - but by the principle of building the church. Not every gift of the Spirit is given to the church at every moment of its life, only those necessary for building Christ's body.
Church isn’t a place for perfect people—it’s a place for the sick, the broken, and those searching for hope. He meets us in our struggles and begins the work of transforming us from the inside out.
Our Mission
We pray mightily that thousands in the Northern Suburbs of Hobart will come to know Jesus, repent of sin and be saved, beginning in Glenorchy
Our Vision
We want to be multiplying churches of flourishing disciples where Jesus is Lord and people are loved.