About Us

At Cross & Crown Church, Jesus is at the center of everything we do. Our mission is to know Him and make Him known by becoming more like Him, bringing His hope to our local community, and impacting the world through the local church. We are for Tampa, believing God has placed us here to love our home and point others to Christ.



Our Values

Our values shape who we strive to become as individuals and as a community. Our desire is to grow more deeply into the character of Jesus, guiding how we live, love, and serve others.


Following Jesus & Doing What He Did

Following Jesus is the ongoing commitment of framing and shaping our values, priorities, and lives to align with His. It means trusting Him in every aspect of life, growing to be more like Him through spiritual practices, and living out His example by sharing our faith, inviting others to follow Him, and loving people as He loves us.


Growing In Real Community

We are created to be in community. Real community celebrates with one another and mourns with one another. Real community pushes each other toward Christ and holds each other accountable when we fall. We gather in community to grow in our relationship with God and to encourage, care, and be known by others.


Living Generously

God has been generous to us through His Son. We return that generosity by giving open-handedly our time through serving others both in and outside of the church, our talents by using our gifting in the church, and our finances through regular giving towards the mission of God within the local church.


On Mission To Multiply

Healthy things grow and healthy things multiply. We seek to support what God is doing and find ways to start new things God wants to do. Whether that is partnering with churches and ministries to reach and love our community or that is sending out and starting new churches to fulfil the Great Commission, we want to be faithful to where God is working and moving.

Our Beliefs

We invite you to explore our beliefs and join us in our pursuit of living out our faith in boldness and passion.

  • The Word of God

    We believe that the Bible is the Word of God, fully inspired and without error in the original manuscripts, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and that it has supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

    John 17:17, Romans 15:4, 2 Timothy 3:16–17, 2 Peter 1:19–21

  • The Trinity

    We believe that there is one living and true God, eternally existing in three persons, that these are equal in every divine perfection, and that they execute distinct but harmonious offices in the work of creation, providence, and redemption.


    Matthew 28:19, John 1:1–4, 1 John 5:7

  • God the Father

    We believe in God, the Father, an infinite, personal spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, power and love. We believe that He concerns Himself mercifully in the affairs of all people, that He hears and answers prayer, and that He saves from sin and death all who come to Him through Jesus Christ.

    John 3:16–17, John 4:24, John 17:5

  • Jesus Christ

    We believe in Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, conceived by the Holy Spirit. We believe in His virgin birth, sinless life, miracles and teachings. We believe in His substitutionary atoning death, bodily resurrection, ascension into heaven, perpetual intercession for His people, and personal visible return to earth.

    Isaiah 7:14, John 1:14, Philippians 2:5–11, Hebrews 1:2–3, 1 John 1:7

  • The Holy Spirit

    We believe in the Holy Spirit who came forth from the Father and Son to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and to regenerate, sanctify, and empower all who believe in Jesus Christ. We believe that the Holy Spirit indwells every believer in Christ, and that He is an abiding helper, teacher and guide.

    John 14:26, John 16:7–15, Romans 8:14–17, Ephesians 1:13–14

  • Humanity

    We believe God created humankind immutably as male and female to reflect and bear His image. As such, human beings of every ethnicity, age, ability, as well as the pre-born deserve dignity, protection, honor, respect, and Christian love. Because of Adam and Eve’s free choice to sin, God’s image in all humankind has become distorted and relationship with God has become disrupted.


    Genesis 1:27, Psalm 139:13–14, Genesis 9:6, Romans 5:12, Romans 3:23

  • Regeneration

    We believe that all people are sinners by nature and by choice and are, therefore, under condemnation. We believe that those who repent of their sins and trust in Jesus Christ as Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

    John 1:12–13, John 3:3, 16–17, Acts 20:21, Ephesians 2:1–9, Titus 3:5

  • The Church

    We believe in the universal church, a living spiritual body of which Christ is the head and all regenerated persons are members. We believe in the local church, consisting of a company of believers in Jesus Christ, baptized on a credible profession of faith, and associated for worship, work and fellowship. We believe that God has laid upon the members of the local church the primary task of giving the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world.

    Matthew 16:16–18, Acts 2:38–41, Ephesians 2:19–22, Ephesians 5:25–27

  • Christian Conduct

    We believe that Christians should live for the glory of God and the well-being of others; that their conduct should be blameless before the world; that they should be faithful stewards of their possessions; and that they should seek to realize for themselves and others the full stature of maturity in Christ.

    2 Corinthians 9:6–8, Ephesians 4:11–16, Philippians 2:14–16, Colossians 3:17–23, 1 Thessalonians 5:17–18

  • Marriage & Sexuality

    We believe we are all loved by God, broken by sin, and in need of the grace of Jesus in our lives. Made in the image of God, people were created with equal intrinsic value and two distinct biological sexes, male and female. God designed marriage to be a union between one male and one female, and sex is to take place within the context of marriage. Even if our personal desires may differ, we choose to submit to the wisdom of God’s design.


    Genesis 1:26, 2:25; Psalms 139:13-14; Matthew 19:4-5; Ephesians 5:21-33

  • The Ordinances

    We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has committed two ordinances to the local church: baptism and the Lord's Supper. We believe that Christian baptism is the immersion of a believer in water into the name of the triune God. We believe that the Lord's Supper was instituted by Christ for commemoration of His death. We believe that these two ordinances should be observed and administered until the return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

    Matthew 28:18-20, Acts 2:41-42, Romans 6:3-5, 1 Corinthians 11:23-32

  • Religious Liberty

    We believe that every human being has direct relations with God, and is responsible to God alone in all matters of faith; that each church is independent and must be free from interference by any ecclesiastical or political authority; that therefore Church and State must be kept separate as having different functions, each fulfilling its duties free from dictation or patronage of the other.

    Romans 14:12, Acts 5:29, Matthew 22:21, Colossians 1:18, 1 Timothy 2:1–2

  • The Last Things

    We believe in the personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ to earth and the establishment of His kingdom. We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked.

    John 5:28–29, Revelation 20:1–15, 2 Corinthians 5:10, Matthew 25:31–46

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