About Christadelphians

The Christadelphians are a world-wide community of believers seeking to uphold the gospel preached by the Lord Jesus Christ and his apostles in the first century.

The name Christadelphian (from Greek words meaning “brethren [of] Christ”) was coined in the 1860s, the time of the American Civil War, to identify a group of people that had developed gradually in the United States (and the United Kingdom) over the preceding 15 years and shared distinctive beliefs about the original and authentic teaching of the Bible. As much as Christadelphians as a formal movement are relatively new compared to many other religious groups, there is evidence that the beliefs we embrace have in large part been shared by believers dating back to the first century.

Today, Christadelphians can be found around the world. The foundation of our belief is that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Its teaching leads us to faith in the Living God through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, with whom all our hope rests. We believe that the Bible is accurate in its descriptions of the past, of supreme value in its guidance for the present, and reliable in its prophecies of the future.

The great focus of our hope is the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth and the establishment of God’s kingdom, centered in Jerusalem, the City of the Great King, and in Israel. It is our deepest aspiration that at that time, by the grace of God, we will be granted immortality and a place—among the resurrected and immortalized faithful of all generations—with Christ in that Kingdom and through the endless ages to come.

To that end, though we humbly recognize our present weakness and imperfection, we seek to live in faith and obedience to God and to be ready for Christ when he comes again.