We're a non-denominational, historically Protestant church centered on the person and work of Jesus. We hold the Nicene Creed without reservation, and everything below is downstream of it.
About God. One God, eternally existing as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
About Jesus. Fully God, fully human. Lived the life we couldn't, died the death we deserved, rose again on the third day, and is making all things new.
About Scripture. Inspired, trustworthy, and our authoritative guide for faith and life. We take it seriously — which sometimes means wrestling with it, not just quoting it.
About people. Every human being bears the image of God and has inherent dignity. This shapes how we treat one another, how we talk about those who disagree with us, and how we show up in our neighborhood.
About the church. A community of ordinary, imperfect people learning to follow Jesus together. Not a building. Not a brand. A family.
We baptize by immersion, and we baptize people who are old enough to profess faith for themselves. We do not baptize infants. Instead we dedicate them — a service in which parents make promises before the congregation and the congregation makes promises back. Families who were baptized as infants in another tradition are not re-baptized to join us unless they ask to be.
Baptism Sundays happen six times a year. There's no class and no paperwork, just a conversation with a pastor first. See the next Baptism Sunday.
We serve communion at every Vespers service and on the first Sunday morning of each month. The table is open to anyone who follows Jesus, regardless of membership. We use both wine and grape juice, and the bread on the left-hand station is gluten free.
We hold the historic Christian understanding of marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman, and we teach that sexual intimacy belongs within that covenant. Our pastors officiate weddings on that basis.
We also want to be clear about what that does not mean here. Everyone is welcome in this room and in our community groups, without exception and without an asterisk. We are not going to make anyone's sexuality the subject of a Sunday morning. If you want to talk this through with a person rather than read it off a webpage, Pastor David Kim will make time for that conversation — pastor@thegreetyrchurch.greetyr.com.
Women teach, preach, lead community groups, and serve as elders at The Greetyr Church. Two of our five elders are women, and our Franklin campus pastor, Renee Alvarez, preaches roughly twenty Sundays a year.
We confess that God created the heavens and the earth and that human beings bear his image on purpose. We do not take a congregational position on the age of the earth or on the mechanism of creation, and you will find young-earth and old-earth convictions represented among our members and our elders. We consider this a matter of Christian liberty.
Our elders hold a range of views on election and human freedom, and we've deliberately left this outside our statement of faith. Both Reformed and Arminian convictions are at home here. We'd rather you argue about it over dinner in a community group than sort it out before you're allowed in the door.
We don't ask members to abstain, and we serve wine at communion. We do ask that leaders exercise judgment and that nobody's freedom becomes someone else's burden — a number of people in this church are in recovery, and Celebrate Recovery meets in our fellowship hall every Thursday.
We believe the gifts described in the New Testament continue today. In practice our Sunday Gatherings are ordinary — we don't practice speaking in tongues corporately — but we pray for healing, and we don't think God stopped doing anything.
The long version. Our full doctrinal statement runs about nine pages and is available at the Welcome Table any Sunday, or by emailing hello@thegreetyrchurch.greetyr.com. Membership doesn't require agreeing with every line of it — only with the essentials above.
Whatever brought you to this page, there's a place for you on Sunday. No pressure, no spotlight, no awkward stand-up-and-introduce-yourself moment.
Tell us you're coming and we'll have someone meet you at the door, walk your kids to check-in, and save you a seat. It takes about a minute.
Sunday is the front door; groups are the living room. Forty-two groups of 8–12 people meet in homes across Nashville and Williamson County every week.
Generosity is how this church funds its neighborhood work. Ten percent of everything given goes straight back out to Berry Hill and beyond.
Berry Hill Campus · 2145 Franklin Pike, Nashville, TN 37204 · (615) 555-0183
Franklin Campus · 301 Mallory Station Road, Franklin, TN 37067 · (615) 555-0184
Questions? Email hello@thegreetyrchurch.greetyr.com or stop by the Welcome Table in the lobby any Sunday. Follow along at @thegreetyrchurch.