Topic: Church

The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.

Jesus’s agenda, which we are called to follow, is about healing, liberating and gathering in the excluded, not purifying the community by excluding anyone.

Faced with the decline and disintegration of the Church, we are called to offer ourselves to God as the new branch who faithfully carry God’s love and mercy into a new era.

While a dedicated building can serve a valuable role in our worship, God calls us to follow far beyond the confines of the building.

The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives into imitations of the love and kindness of Jesus.

We can only keep the UNITY OF THE SPIRIT by experiencing the Oneness of Christ in all the parts of ourselves and each other.

God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.

When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.

Whether or not you can accept the idea of a personal devil, there are forces of evil in the world that are bigger and more powerful than our own inner flaws, but conscious and united, we are stronger still.

Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.

All our dinners are an anticipation of the vision of a new world, where God’s very self dwells with mortals, all are welcomed, and all pain is taken away.

In God’s vision for humanity, every person and the role they play is valued and cared for. When society fails to live up to this, the Church is called to go against the flow and courageously champion and model it.