The Church believes the Bible to be inerrant. The Church has a Baptist confession of faith and is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. As of 2022, Elevation averages 26,000 attendees, with an additional 65,000 attending on their online platform called eFam. According to a 2018 church census, it claimed a weekly attendance of 25,317 people and 16 campuses in different cities. In 2016, it dedicated a new main building in Ballantyne including a 1,800-seat auditorium. By 2013, the church's regular attendance had grown to nearly 15,000 people weekly. In 2007, it founded the music group Elevation Worship. On February 5, 2006, the first Sunday worship service, 121 people attended. Steven Furtick and seven other families from Christ Covenant Church in Shelby, North Carolina, relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina, meeting in Providence High School. The church began as a church plant of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Weekly church attendance was 27,408 people in 2021. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.
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