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About

Our Story

5point7 Community Church began as a ministry to the 48224 zip code in Detroit. We started by doing community outreach events, such as soccer tournaments and backpack drives, in order to bless the neighborhood. We also started an after-school mentoring program at Wayne Elementary. We have also held teacher appreciation lunches in the hopes to bless the teachers that works so hard as well.

The goal is to plant a gospel-centered church in the neighborhood. This is to be a church that unashamedly proclaims the gospel of Jesus-Christ and is actively involved in the life and well-being of the community.

Core Values

1. SOLE AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE
We stand firmly within the reformed tradition, which affirms that the Bible is the sole and sufficient rule for all faith and practice. Our ways of worshipping God, doing discipleship, and doing evangelism are not to be determined by popular human wisdom or traditions of men. But, with humility, we submit to God’s authority and search for His guidance within the holy Scriptures alone.

2. GOD-CENTERED WORSHIP
We believe that the primary purpose for the creation of mankind is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Seeing that God is creator and sovereign Lord of all things, it is therefore the duty of all people to glorify Him by worship. Divine worship is not for man’s entertainment, nor is its primary purpose for man’s benefit. Worship is primarily and ultimately for God’s glory and pleasure. The benefits we derive from it are secondary.

3. GOSPEL-CENTERED MINISTRY
We believe that all human problems, whether they be personal, social or political, ultimately result from human sin and alienation from God. We also believe that the only remedy for sin is what God has done in the gospel. The gospel is the good news of pardon for sin, salvation by grace and reconciliation with God through the substitionary death of Jesus Christ alone. If every human problem can be traced back to the consequences resulting from human sin, then, the solution for every human problem is the saving blessings revealed to us in the gospel of Christ. Therefore, in every aspect of the life of our church, and in every ministry, our intention is to always point men and women to the gospel for total healing.

4. KINGDOM MULTIPLICATION
We believe that one of the major responsibilities given to the church by Christ is to make disciples of all nations. (Matt. 28:19) We also believe that the greatest desire in the hearts of God’s people should be for God’s kingdom to come, and for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. (Matt. 6:10) For these reasons, we consider it part of our essential responsibility as a church, to contribute to the advancing of God’s kingdom by making disciples.We will seek to do this by aggressively attempting to evangelize our community, by supporting foreign missions and by sending out and supporting church planters.

5. GROWTH IN GODLINESS
We believe that essentially, the Christian life is about loving, obeying and worshipping God with reverence and godly fear (Deut. 10:12; Mt. 22:37; Heb. 12:28). We reject any expression of the faith which implies that the Christian life primarily consists in personal health, wealth and worldly comfort. We believe that the Christian life is a God-ward life (Rom. 6:11), and that true discipleship consists in our dying more and more to sin (Mt. 16:24), and our living more and more unto God (Rom. 12:1).

6. FELLOWSHIP OF THE SAINTS
We believe that every individual Christian has been baptized into the one body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:12-13). As members together of one body, the Lord commands us to dwell together in mutual love, fellowship and communion (Jn. 13:34-35; Acts 2:42; Phil. 2:1-2). The Christian church is truly one big family in Christ, and every local congregation should be an expression of that reality. As a church we will seek to realize genuine community through a mutual sharing of our lives together. We will weep together and rejoice together as a family (Rom. 12:15). We will always seek to meet one another’s physical and spiritual needs. (Acts 4:32)

7. CITY FOCUS
In order for us as a church to love our neighbors and make disciples of all nations, we must not be an inward focused church, wrapped up in our own programs. But, we will seek to be an outward focused church, loving and serving the surrounding community. We intend to love our city and community by understanding its needs, and in love and humility, meeting those needs in a way which points to the gospel and glorifies God.

Leadership

Brian Evans - Pastor

My journey began in the ghetto of inner city Detroit. Amidst a life of recklessness and crime I became aware of the providence and grace of God. My life was typical of most inner city youth; there was no father in my home and we were very poor. Alcohol, drugs and violence made up my surroundings. While living surrounded by these many dangers, God began dealing with my heart. Feelings of guilt and fear of punishment started to haunt me. My mother was relentless in trying to talk me into visiting the church that my uncle had recently planted nearby. Eventually, I gave in. I began spending time with my uncle and God used him in leading me to Christ.

As a Christian, God began repairing my life. I married the mother of my two children, went back and obtained a GED, and started working full time. I had a new found love for the Bible and for learning history and theology. Over time, I was becoming angry with the black, inner city church. I couldn’t help but wonder why church history was not being taught in our churches, or the biblical exposition that I had now been exposed to. It was amid frustration over this that I felt a call to the ministry. I believed many zealous and sincere believers in my community were not being adequately taught and lacked the theological foundation necessary to meet the spiritual and social needs of the community.

In order to prepare myself for ministry, I enrolled in a local Bible college. Amid great emotional struggle, I left the pentecostal church and joined a local Presbyterian church. These moves took me out of familiar surroundings and exposed me to a whole new environment and culture. Though uncomfortable and challenging at times, it helped me grow and develop theologically, spiritually and socially. At the time, I didn’t fully understand how I would fulfill my dream of going back and bringing biblical transformation to the inner city, but I never lost my passion to one day do it.