About - Austin Christian Fellowship Church

Our Vision

In August 2012, the Lord brought together a few families as the beginning of Austin CFC. Our Savior’s work in building His church in the Austin area had already begun long before their coming together.

Most of them had been introduced to the New Covenant life through the ministry of Brother Zac Poonen and CFC Bangalore; however, a vital piece of the puzzle was missing for them: the New Wineskin.

The Lord’s bringing together His body in central Texas was an answer to years of prayers. CFC is not a denomination; Austin CFC and CFC Bangalore are completely independent churches.

Austin CFC is extremely thankful for the burden CFC Bangalore had to share its vision and example with the rest of the world, and has benefited tremendously from this ministry. Although independent, the two churches do share a common vision:

Please watch this video to know how the Austin Christian Fellowship church started:

To demonstrate and proclaim the new wine (the life of Jesus and the Divine nature) in a new wineskin (the local church as an expression of the Body of Christ, built according to the New Covenant pattern).

CFC Vision

To get the full picture of the Lord’s work in building His churches, we encourage you to start from the beginning of this vision back in August 1975: cfcindia.com/our-vision

May Jesus Christ be honored and glorified and worshipped. He is worthy.

Contact

Our contact email is austincfc@gmail.com.

Meeting

We meet at 10:30 AM on Sunday mornings. Please see our Contact page for location and directions.

Our Beliefs

We Believe:

That the Bible (66 books) is the inspired and infallible Word of God, the sole and sufficient guide for our life on earth.
That there is one God eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His humanity, His perfectly sinless life, His substitutionary death as an atonement for our sins, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the Father, and His personal return to the earth for His saints.
That all human beings are dead in sin and utterly lost and that the only way their sins can be forgiven is through repentance and through faith in the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, whereby a person is born again to be a child of God.
That justification is by faith in Christ alone, the evidence of this being good works that glorify God.
In baptism in water, by immersion, after regeneration, in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
In the necessity of being filled with the Holy Spirit continually in order to have power to be witnesses for Christ - by life and by word.
In the resurrection of the righteous to eternal life and the resurrection of the unrighteous to eternal damnation.

For a fuller statement of what we believe, click here.

Money Matters

Please refer this page for the Church financial policy

Leadership

Austin Christian Fellowship Church is led by a plurality of elders. No elder is paid for his work. This is NOT because we feel that such financial support is unScriptural, but because we desire to stand apart from the bad testimony that many Christian workers have had in the matter of finances.

Zac Poonen

Zac Poonen is the Apostle over Austin Christian Fellowship Church. He was formerly an Indian Naval Officer who has been serving the Lord in India for nearly 60 years as a Bible-teacher. He has responsibility for a number of churches in the world. He has written more than 25 books and numerous articles - which have been translated into many Indian and foreign languages. His messages are available freely on YouTube and at cfcindia.com. Like the other elders in his churches, Zac Poonen also supports himself and his family through "tent-making" and does not receive any salary for his services. He does not receive any royalty for any of his books that are published by Christian Fellowship Centre, Bangalore.

About Austin Christian Fellowship