ABOUT US
ABOUT US
We are so glad you are interested in CrossPoint Church. We are a community of believers who desire to listen to God well and obey God quickly. We are real people wanting to make a Kingdom impact in a restless, chaotic world. Our primary gathering is casual and meets on Sundays at 10am where we celebrate our God and learn from His Word. We hope you, your family, and your friends will be our guests soon!
OUR MISSION
LISTENING AND OBEYING
In Mark 12, Jesus tells us that the most important commandment is to “LOVE the Lord your God with ALL your heart, with ALL your soul, with ALL your mind and with all your strength…and to LOVE your neighbor as yourself!
In Matthew 11, Jesus promises rest to the weary and invites all those carrying heavy loads to a personal relationship with the King. Literally, Jesus is graciously offering to partner with us on the journey.
In Matthew 28, Jesus told His followers, who would soon become the church, to make disciples of all nations and then promised them His presence for the mission.
Our church wants to listen and obey our Lord. Simply put…we want to Love God, Love People and Make Disciples. Jesus Christ modeled for us how to do just that! We have the privilege to be salt and light in our neighborhoods. Though the CrossPoint community is far from perfect, we strive to grow in our love for God and each other as we teach people to know and obey Jesus Christ in order to enjoy and share Him with others.
We hope you will become part of the CrossPoint family as we journey together with our King!
OUR HISTORY
SMALL BEGINNINGS
OUR STAFF
Rick Wager
Lead Pastor
Rick is excited to be part of the leadership team at CrossPoint Church. He joined the staff on November 15, 2016 as CrossPoint’s 11th senior pastor. Rick began fulltime ministry over 40 years ago. Rick is a youth pastor turned senior pastor with a passion for doing life with people of all ages. His heart is to equip and encourage believers as they love God and love others.
In 2017, Rick celebrated 40 years of marriage to his high school sweetheart, Sharon. They have two adult kids– Josh (Julie) Wager and Kara (Scott) Wessman– and six grandkids. They live just up the road in Lake Zurich, IL close to their family. In his spare time, Rick loves to serve at Silver Birch Ranch in northern Wisconsin, going on missions trips, swinging a hammer, biking and riding horses. He loves the outdoors, coffee, his wife, kids and grandkids, the White Sox, the Bears and most of all his Savior.
Blake Peterson
Associate Pastor of Discipleship
Blake has been a part of the CrossPoint community since the fall of 2019 and came on staff in 2021. He serves as CrossPoint's Associate Pastor overseeing our discipleship ministries. He and His wife Courtney live in Fox Lake, IL with their three young children. In his free time, Blake enjoys books, movies, theatre, disc golf and anything he can do with his family. Blake has a passion to see the name of Jesus lifted up and glorified and is glad to be able to serve a church community where God’s glory is of the highest importance.
Zac Harley
Worship Director
Zac has been involved with CrossPoint Church since 2020, and joined our staff in 2024 overseeing our worship ministry. He has a passion for music, and prayerfully strives to point our congregation to the worship of Jesus. In addition to music, he has a passion for global outreach and sits on the board of two non-profits (Grace Refuge Outreach Worldwide, Total Advance). Zac and his wife Zoi got married in 2021, and they enjoy playing sports, traveling, and going on runs with their black lab "Sugar".
OUR BELIEFS
We believe that God has eternally existed. God himself shows us his desire for relationship by being relational in himself. He has continually revealed himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each part of what we know as the Trinity has distinct personal attributes, but these do not divide the nature or essence of God’s being. Being created in God’s image means that God is in himself relational and that He created man to be in relationship with Himself.
We believe that Jesus has eternally existed as the Son of God. As a part of the narrative story of God’s redemption, Jesus became human. In other words, God became one of us. The church describes this as the Incarnation. The redemption narrative, which we call the Bible, continues as Jesus not only becomes human, but is born to a virgin and lives a sinless, perfect life on earth, allowing him to make right everything that had been done wrong in Adam. Jesus chose to die on a cross as a sacrifice for the penalty that should have been ours and his resurrection three days later made new life possible for us in this life and the next. What Jesus did during his time on earth and the character of his being provide a consistent reminder of what we should be about with our lives.
We believe that God created man in the image of God. Because of this, each and every human being possesses great dignity and is worthy of our respect and love. God confirms his love for each and every person when He sent His own son to die on the cross so that we might be able to be in relationship with Him through salvation in Jesus. In Genesis, God created man to rule over the earth; therefore we are stewards of the earth and the resources it contains. We believe that we will be held accountable for that stewardship, along with the stewardship of our gifts, talents, and the provision God makes in our lives on a regular basis.
The church has never been, nor will ever be perfect. However, its shortcomings cannot deter us from our purpose as God’s primary instrument of change in the world. We know that we were designed for community with other people, and the place of greatest community in the world should be the church. The church is not a corporation or a massive company. It is a new humanity created by the resurrection of Jesus Christ that expresses itself as a community of faith in Christ. The Scriptures describes it as a body or a family. Our church takes seriously our role to serve our community and exist as a place that offers people hope and purpose, even as we challenge people to discover and live a Christ-centered life.
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By confessing your sin to God, putting your trust in Jesus and what His death and resurrection made possible for you, and surrendering your life to God’s purposes, you can begin a personal relationship with Jesus. We believe that when we begin that relationship, the Holy Spirit (God Himself) enters our being – and that He (the Holy Spirit) not only becomes our guide, but it continues the process that began at our point of surrender – moving us from a life of sin to a life where we resemble the person of Jesus Christ.
In our worship services or celebrations, as some people call them, there are two recurring symbols: baptism and the Lord’s Supper (also known as the Communion). In Scripture, baptism followed the decision of a person to surrender one’s self to God for salvation in Jesus Christ. Through baptism, we announce our commitment to the Lord (and His Church) and our desire to live a life following the example of Jesus Christ. In the Lord’s Supper, we celebrate the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross, through which we have the forgiveness of our sins. We believe that this meal is a memorial to that sacrifice. We do not subscribe to the idea that Christ is present in the elements themselves, but we do believe in the presence of Christ with and in His church as they share this meal as His body. Both of these are important symbols that refocus us on the center of our lives: Jesus.
HELPING PEOPLE FOLLOW JESUS