Community is real.
Creative energies are encouraged.
Mystery is pondered.
Interaction is essential.
Barriers are broken down.
The Spirit is alive.
And Jesus is discovered.

God is our first love and we desire to model our community after him and his attributes.

God exists in community as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God calls his people to be one as Jesus and the Father are one. However, we as humans are imperfect and we struggle in beginning and maintaining relationships and living in community. We believe that God deeply cares about relationships and community and that his model, both the Trinity and Jesus with his disciples, of community strives for “oneness and unity” through submission, forgiveness and grace. Knowing that the goal of “oneness” is impossible to achieve on our own, we are committed to the leading and conviction of the Holy Spirit personally and to the necessity of identifying our differences and working through them. Further, we are committed to the development of spiritual friendships where: we can be real in an atmosphere of trust, where we can let down our guard, confess our struggles, where we can pray, care and desire accountability. John 10:30, John 17:21, Mt 16:13, John 14-16, 2 Cor. 5:18

God's message (gospel) is relevant and essential.

We are people who live in a world of pain, and separation, and who are affected significantly by the postmodern, post-Christian, post-literate culture of which we are a part. We believe that there is no greater love than to lay down your life for another, and that Jesus Christ is the example of such self-giving love. We believe that the gospel is God's message of hope into a sceptical, often hopeless world and unconditional love into a separated, individualistic world. We desire to proclaim the gospel in 2 ways: by communicating in ways that are relevant and through our lives-- lived under the influence of God's spirit.

God is interactive.

We believe that our primary posture in the midst of our daily activity is waiting, listening, and watching. Even though it is not easy to hear we believe that God desires to communicate with us through any way we will listen (personal reading of Scripture, prayer, daily life, spiritual guidance, or through prophets, teachers, etc.). We communicate, pray, to God because we believe that he wants and desires to have relationships with each of us. We know that we have a God who listens to our laments, our struggle, and who desires to work in, through, and around us to affect our world. Also, we worship also as a response to who God is and what he has done in our world and in our lives.

God is about breaking down barriers that separate people.

God becoming human (Jesus Christ) was about being in the midst of people, being light in the darkness, and the physician to the sick. Through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, we desire to overcome our human tendency (sin) to seclude and insulate ourselves from those who are different than us. We desire to identify and move over the boundaries where separation occurs, personally, racially, culturally, generationally, monetarily, and sexually, while trying to be salt and light in our world (light in darkness John 3:19, 8:12, 1 Thess. 5:5; physician to the sick Mk 9:12, Mt 25:36; salt and light 5:13).

God is the eternal truth.

We are finite people trying to understand, appreciate, and live in relationship with a God that is beyond our limited understanding. We recognize that he has made himself known and that we can know him generally through nature, and more specifically through study of truth, through the study of the Bible, and through participation in a continual relationship with him. However, we also respect the reality that there is much that we cannot begin to comprehend (mystery). To know God we must be both submitted to the truth of the Bible and the context in which it is found (cultural and narrative context). We are committed to the combination of God's truth and the spirit's presence to testify and convict us of truth. However, we recognize that we must be willing to lay down our desire to rule our lives and acknowledge our weakness (authenticity), if we are going to begin to be obedient (Rom. 1:20, Mt. 22:29, John 14:16).

God is the creator and we are made in his image as creative beings.

We believe that despite the fall, this world and all that is in it, reflects God's beauty. As creative beings He has placed with in us a desire and ability to be creative with what he has already created. Our being creative (using our gifts, talents, skills) gives us an outlet to communicate God's beauty and message (Genesis 1-3).