Do you want to know how we experience the Bible and Christian tradition?

Want to know what we teach and how we live out our faith and spirituality? 

These are the ideas that fuel our life as a community.  We hope that they excite your imagination with a sense of who we are.  We invite you to come experience our faith and spirituality firsthand.

• We remember and experience God’s creation, filled with diversity and wonder.
• We proclaim that all creation is beloved of God.
• We strive to welcome all of God’s people – no matter their race, gender, class, sexual orientation, culture, or religious background.

• We remember and experience that “When we were slaves in Egypt,” God heard our cry and responded with a mighty act of liberation.
• We proclaim that God desires liberation from oppression, violence, and sin for all people.  And that God especially identifies with the oppressed – outcasts, the poor, the wandering stranger, the “least of these.”
• We strive to practice God’s peace and justice in our worship, our service projects, and our public activism, especially on behalf of those most in need.

• We remember and experience that God called a people to be a new kind of human community.
• We proclaim that we are part of that community and have a responsibility to live according to the way of God in the world.
• We strive to practice love, forgiveness, honesty, humility, and generosity with one another.

• We remember and experience through the prophets that God is holy and God alone is sovereign.
• We proclaim that God’s truth must be spoken to power, calling attention to empty rituals and unjust societies.
• We strive to practice God’s holiness in our worship, by setting aside times, places, energy, and resources to praise, celebrate, learn, give, and pray.  In this way we live and testify that the world can be different than it is.

• We remember and experience the time of exile, when the people were waiting.
• We proclaim that God will bring God’s people home again.
• We strive to joyfully celebrate with those who have found a home again.

• We remember and experience the birth of Jesus to Mary as God’s surprising work in human history.
• We proclaim that God invades human history in the most amazing ways, in the most unexpected of people, to carry out God’s work.
• We strive to empower all of God’s people for ministry.

• We remember and experience Jesus’ baptism as the inauguration of his ministry.
• We proclaim that baptism is the sign of covenant that we will walk the way of God with the people of God.
• We strive to imitate Christ in our lives.

• We remember and experience the ministry of Jesus as one of healing.
• We proclaim that Jesus confronted the powers in society and nature that robbed creation of wholeness and well-being.
• We strive to practice a ministry of healing for those who are suffering.

• We remember and experience the last supper as Jesus’ participation in an ancient rite and a sign of the future hope.
• We proclaim that God welcomes all people to the table, just as they are.
• We strive to practice a communion which unites all God’s people.

• We remember and experience the crucifixion of Jesus as a moment of incredible suffering that resulted from Jesus’ radical way of life.
• We proclaim that the cross is the model for Christian discipleship.
• We strive to practice nonviolence as God’s way of confronting the powers sin.

• We remember and experience the resurrection of Jesus as the defeat of the powers of sin in a moment of new creation.
• We proclaim that Christians are the eternal beginners.
• We strive to practice hope.

• We remember and experience Pentecost as the moment when God’s Spirit was poured out on the early church.
• We proclaim that God’s Spirit fills each of us with God’s power and glory.
• We strive to practice wisdom and courage.

• We remember and experience the apostles as creators of a radical new community.
• We proclaim that this community is formed by faith in the grace of God and not because of one’s merit or station in life.
• We strive to be inclusive in our language, our music, our leadership, and our daily lives.

• We remember and experience God’s revelation of a new age.
• We proclaim that God is still speaking,
• We strive to listen to God’s still-speaking voice . . .

If you have questions about our embrace of those of varying sexual orientations and gender identities, please see “Why it’s OK to be Gay!”

No matter who you are, are where you are on life’s journey you are welcome here.