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We are a local church in North West London committed to building a community focused on knowing and loving Jesus Christ. Everyone is welcome to visit us which is the best way to get to know us. We meet at 11am on Sundays at the O2 Centre on Finchley Road. Please also feel free to get in touch with us directly and we'll do our best to answer your questions.

Who we are

London Community Church is a loving community of Christian believers with a great heart for worship and mission. We are a lively community of people characterised by our love for God, for each other and for the communities of which they are a part. We are a charismatic evangelical church relating to many other similar churches both in the UK and overseas.

London Community Church was started in St John’s Wood in 1984 by the late Richard Bartrop and his wife, Janet. Richard and Janet led the church for 5 years before giving themselves fully into establishing a Bible College in Zambia. The church was led by Chris & Nikki Williams until January 2024 when they handed leadership to Phil & Sam Quinn.

View the other tabs do find out what we believe or find out about our leaders below.

We would love to welcome you if you would like to visit us. All you need to do is show up on a Sunday morning (find us), find any seat and participate as much or as little as you want to.

We usually start our meetings by singing a few songs together. This will be followed by a talk (see our SoundCloud profile for a sample of our preaching). At some point, we will receive an offering from those who attend regularly - please don't feel like you need to contribute if you are just visiting. Once a month we will break bread (celebrate the Lord's Supper) together. This is simply a way for us to acknowledge Jesus' death and resurrection and you do not have to participate if you do not wish to.

Children in our church have their own sessions during the preaching. Our children's church programmes are tailored to be age appropriate, with engaging activities and teaching from the Bible. Our children's workers are DBS checked and you can find out more about our safeguarding procedures here. If you bring children with you and they would like to join in, please speak to one of us on the morning so we can manage their involvement correctly.

We serve refreshments after the meeting and it is a great time to get to know people.

We are a community of Bible-believing Christians. That means that we are confident that the Scriptures, as they were originally written, contain the reliable and trustworthy revelation of God to humankind. We do our best to hold directly to the understanding of God and his ways as communicated by the Bible. We strive to be as true to the timeless patterns and values we find in the Bible and demonstrated in the character and life of Jesus Christ as we possibly can.

If you want to know some of the details of the primary tenets of our beliefs, you can find them in our statement of belief.

What is important to us? These are the things that we hold to be our core values:

A deep and devoted love for God: the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Christ-centred: a focus on Jesus Christ as our prime example and saviour.
Word-based: a true dedication to the Word of God and to prayer.
Spirit-led: a complete dependence on the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit.
A commitment to sharing the gospel with others in London, the UK and across the world.
A genuine, demonstrable love for our family, friends and neighbours.

Our leadership

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Malcolm & Leigh

Malcolm and Leigh have 3 children and are based in Finchley, North London. They have been active in the church since 1993 and in 2008, Malcolm was appointed to eldership. He is a civil engineer by profession, a keen musician and cyclist! Leigh has a passion for people and is an Occupational Psychologist. She is deeply involved in the local community.

Phil & Sam

Phil and Sam arrived in the UK in 2018, moving from their home in South Africa to serve God in London. They live with their three children in West Hampstead. Phil was set in as an elder at LCC in September 2023 and they assumed leadership of the church from Chris & Nikki Williams in January 2024. Phil also works as a deputy director in a local charity. Sam works in hospital management and loves running.

Who is Jesus?

Mad man or messiah?

It’s difficult to find someone who doesn’t have an opinion on who Jesus is and what he is about. There are more paintings, songs and books about this one person than anyone else in history. Every year there is some new theory about who he is and what he did. Even our date system pivots around this man. But why? Was he a prophet, a good man, a teacher, a revolutionary, or a madman with a god-complex? What is it about this man that has spurned so much adoration and so much hatred? Let’s examine some of the facts that lead Christians to believe what they believe.

Jesus was a historical figure

While the Discovery Channel and the like regularly give airtime to some new conspiracy theory around Jesus’ existence and life, the fact is that most historical scholars would never dream of disputing whether Jesus was a real, historical figure.

Jesus was human

Jesus was a human like everyone else but he performed many miracles in his life. These miracles showed that God was with him and had appointed Him to establish God’s Kingdom (his rule) on earth – where justice, love, mercy and grace reign. Jesus fulfilled over 300 prophecies found in the Old Testament that confirm that he is the saviour that God promised to send to rescue humanity. Now you know where all the good movies get their ideas from ... except, this isn’t the Matrix or Harry Potter, this is real. By living a perfect and sinless life before God, and by perfectly carrying out God’s mission of love to the world, and by resisting all the temptations of the Devil, Jesus did not carry the guilt that we all carry before God.

Jesus was unjustly executed

Jesus was crucified by the plan of God, carried out by men. By arranging his crucifixion, despite His innocence, Jesus’ contemporaries sought to rid themselves of someone who they felt was disrupting their religious status quo. But it became something far different – Jesus’ death achieved a spiritual victory for all of humanity: as the perfect human, he traded his life to satisfy God’s justice against all of humanity's wickedness. Jesus accepted responsibility and the consequences of our wickedness. He traded his life to satisfy God’s justice against all of humanity’s sin. For God must uphold justice, as we would expect from any king. Except, God’s love and mercy for humanity meant that the only way he could satisfy both his justice and love was to pour out his justice (wrath) on a willing, perfect substitute. Jesus was that willing substitute and he, therefore, paid the price of our sin on our behalf.

Jesus rose from the dead

Jesus rose from the dead and was seen by over 500 people before ascending to heaven. His resurrection was the final victory over death, meaning that all who trust in Jesus step into this victory and will not die eternally. It also means that all who trust in Him can enjoy God’s life right now and know God personally. Christians trust Jesus rather than themselves or their good works or even their religious works to save them from God’s justice. That’s what it means to ‘have faith in Jesus’. His rising from the dead proved that God declares humanity free. All that remains is for people to accept this freedom from God.

Jesus is God

He is the all-powerful ruler over all things physical, social and individual; over nations, political systems and the individual heart; over death, wrongdoing, and guilt. Whether we believe this or not doesn’t change the reality of who he is. Jesus Christ is the central message of the Bible, the figure that all of history points to, and the focal point of humanity’s future.

Jesus can be personally known

It doesn’t matter your culture or background, Jesus has promised to give you His Holy Spirit so that you may know Him personally, as He is alive today. To become a Christian you must simply trust in Jesus for salvation rather than in anything else – be it yourself, money, or even a religion. It’s Jesus alone who brings life and He is willing to give it to all who simply trust him. There is nothing else required of you except this trust! We love talking about Jesus so if you have any more questions, please ask!

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