Founded in the interest of offering a church home to all who confess and believe, Metropolitan Community Churches moves in the mainstream of Christianity. Christianity is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and is the religion set forth in the Scriptures. Jesus Christ is foretold in the Old Testament, presented in the New Testament, and proclaimed by the Christian Church in every age and in every land.
Our faith is based upon the principles outlined in the historic creeds: Apostles and Nicene.
We believe:
- In one triune God, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, of one substance and of three persons: God, our Parent-Creator; Jesus Christ, the only begotten son of God, God in flesh, human; and the Holy Spirit, God as our Sustainer.
Simply put, we believe in the Trinity – God, Jesus, and Spirit. We believe God is all powerful, all present and all knowing and that God is ONE.
- That the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, showing forth God to every person through the law and the prophets, and finally, completely and ultimately on earth in the being of Jesus Christ.
We believe in the authority of the Bible and that the Bible is a living Word that still speaks today. In other words, when we read it, it speaks to us and it speaks in new ways all the time as each generation reads and studies it. We may disagree with one another or with other churches on interpretation yet we agree that God speaks and we strive to understand this Word.
- That Jesus…the Christ…historically recorded as living some 2,000 years before this writing, is God incarnate, of human birth, fully God and fully human, and that by being one with God, Jesus has demonstrated once and forever that all people are likewise Children of God, being spiritually made in God’s image.
Jesus is God yet Jesus is also our brother, our teacher and our example! We talk about salvation below.
- That the Holy Spirit is God making known God’s love and interest to all people. The Holy Spirit is God, available to and working through all who are willing to place their welfare in God’s keeping.
The Holy Spirit is with us always. The Spirit is our Comforter, our Counselor and also our Teacher and Guide.
- Every person is justified by grace to God through faith in Jesus Christ.
We believe in Jesus and in God. In believing we discover that God has already forgiven us and made things right bridging the gap in Jesus and showing us our intended relationship with God. We grow in faith and understand and even in our beliefs. It is God who has made things right and who offers us grace, forgiveness and relationship.
- We are saved from loneliness, despair and degradation through God’s gift of grace, as was declared by our Savior. Such grace is not earned, but is a pure gift from a God of pure love. We further commend the community of the faithful to a life of prayer; to seek genuine forgiveness for unkind, thoughtless and unloving acts; and to a committed life of Christian service.
Classically understood we are saved from sin and from hell. However, God invites us to fullness of life here and now. We receive grace – a second chance – in fact multiple second chances to grow in faith and follow God’s principles. Salvation tells us we are not without hope. God has already made a way for us to abundant life here and now as well as hereafter!
- The Church serves to bring all people to God through Christ. To this end, it shall arrange for regular services of worship, prayer, interpretation of the Scriptures, and edification through the teaching and preaching of the Word.
The Church is the community of the faithful. It is the people not a building! The community gathers to worship God, to learn together to follow God’s principles and to share the Good News of the radically inclusive love of God with others.
