Life Church Seaford is a Christian community centred on the good news of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Our History
Life Church was borne out of the generosity and sacrificial giving of people just like you. We’re not funded by anyone or anything other than the people who gather weekly for worship.
This is our story so far.
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In 2010 Life Church Seaford (formerly called Kings Church Seaford) was started as a multisite of Kings Church Eastbourne. We began by hiring Seaford Head school hall Sunday by Sunday and meeting midweek in our homes.
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In September of 2014 we started asking God in prayer for a building of our own and, after sensing that God had said ‘yes’ we approached the owners of this building. To our amazement we found that they were already beginning to explore a possible move of their own.
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In July 2017 the church members in Eastbourne and Seaford raised an incredible £120,000 in just three weeks for the purchase of the building and in February 2019 the sale was completed and we began developing the building to fit with our vision.
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In January 2020 we unveiled plans for the further development of the building we meet in, and then the Pandemic hit. Like everyone we were forced to adapt. We launched a youtube channel and began meeting over Zoom before slowly coming back together having developed a renewed sense of identity and vision.
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In September 2021 we appointed elders and changed our name form Kings Church to Life Church, believing that God has called us to be a life giving community with a vision to be the most prayerful, generous and courageous we can be.
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In April 2022 we completed the original task we set out to complete: the planting of a new gospel-centred church in Seaford. We’re now on a journey into new waters, knowing that Jesus is leading us by his Spirit and promises to remain with us enabling us to make disciples of all people from every nation and culture.
Who Are We?
We are followers and apprentices of the way of Jesus.
We’re those restless hearts who’ve found joy, peace and forgiveness in Jesus and who now exist to honour him and lead others to come to know and trust him for themselves.
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Our hope is that this community of believers becomes a people that you can come to call your own and that our church can become an extended family for you too.
Learning to live as followers of the way of Jesus is an adventure of faith. For more on what apprenticeship to Jesus looks like click on the button below:
Joining Our Journey
Jesus’ disciples obeyed his command to “make disciples of all nations” by establishing churches.
Belonging to a church is God’s gift to us and essential for followers of Jesus, but since church isn’t an institution or a club but a movement and a family it can take time to feel at home.
We’d love to help you find your place at Life Church.
Simply come along one Sunday, connect with us and explore what following Jesus looks like for you.
What We Believe
As a church we operate by a principle of historic humility meaning that in areas of belief where Christians have been united for centuries, we don’t assume the freedom to change that belief.
Sometimes describe our beliefs using the idea that some things are written in blood, others in pen and others in pencil. This helps us get clear how central something is to the heart of who we are whilst enabling us to build a community with a healthy amount of diversity and freedom.
Blood
Blood beliefs are core parts of our faith. These are the essentials, things that almost all Christians everywhere agree on and include early church creeds like the Nicene Creed, first adopted in 325AD.
Pen
Pen beliefs are things we believe strongly whilst at the same time recognising that some Christians around the world hold to different conclusions than us. They are nevertheless still brothers and sisters in the faith.
Pencil
Pencil beliefs are beliefs we hold to but recognise that there is a great deal of diversity of belief across the global church and indeed we may be even ‘rub out’ and re-write what we think about these beliefs as we grow as followers of Christ.
For more detailed information about some of the things we believe feel free to email us here: connect@seaford.life
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Outside of Jesus, our clearest window into God is found in the Bible. These 66 books written over hundreds of years by over a dozen different authors all add up to contain authoritative Words about God.
As an authority we trust the truth of these writings above church traditions, our own consciences or desires and even above our own experiences.
Jesus trusted the Old Testament scriptures as authoritative for him, and the early church trusted the New Testament letters and gospels as authoritative for them. We’re following in Jesus, and the early church’s footsteps when we aim to treat the scriptures as our essential guide for living.
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The church is a beautifully diverse group of people. It reflects the wisdom of God which is demonstrated in the bringing together of previously divided and hostile people into a united and loving family.
We live with a longing to see full and complete reconciliation across races, classes, genders and generations take place and we’re actively pursuing being a church that actively aims to listen to, love and accommodate for one another’s differences.
Our confidence is that the message of the cross of Jesus is able to unite and restore in a way that nothing else can.
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Upon becoming a Christian we receive God’s Spirit. He is our Teacher, Comforter and the one who Empowers us to live the Christian life. He longs to show us how soul-satisfying Jesus is and he helps lead us in prayer.
After our drenching/baptising with water at conversion followers of Jesus are then also meant to pursue drenchings/baptisings in the Holy Spirit regularly throughout their Christian life.
We cannot live and flourish as Christians without the power of the Holy Spirit working in our lives and need to be ongoingly filled with the power of our loving Comforter on a regular basis.
As our Helper the Spirit also gives gifts freely to all in the church in order to help us help one another. These God-given and God-empowered gifts are meant to be pursued with all the eagerness of a child opening their presents on Christmas morning.
You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses… to the ends of the earth. (Acts 1:8)
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth. (John 16:13)
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God gives gifts to every single one of us and we’re instructed in the New Testament to use them for ‘the common good’ (1 Corinthians 12:4).
The original word for ‘common good’ is the word from which we get ‘symphony’.
Therefore, our Sunday gatherings are not services (since we’re not cars), nor are they meetings (we’re not a business), but instead are symphonies – with the emphasis being on every one of us playing our part. We approach our Sundays gatherings with this idea in mind.
‘Eagerly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy’ (1 Corinthians 14:1)
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If you've got any questions or would like to know more, please get in touch with us.