Our Values - Participation

In a world of autonomy, Participation

We are called not just to accept facts about the resurrection, but to participate in God’s Kingdom. In his kindness, God invites us to become recipients in sacrament and co-laborers in the Kingdom.

We make a practice of cultivating Participation through:

Corporate Life: Service

Jesus, the image of the invisible God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped but humbled himself, taking on the form of a servant, and offering his life as a ransom for many. We participate in Christ’s kingdom through our service. We hope that our body finds ways to express its gifts as it serves one another, and we also hope there will be opportunities to serve in our neighborhood. We try to arrange opportunities for our church to serve on a monthly basis. Look for opportunities to serve in our weekly email or the Sunday bulletin!

Personal Life: Vocation

One of the primary ways we image God is through our vocations–the work God has given us to do to steward his good creation. We don’t want to think of our life of participation in God’s kingdom as something that is confined to Sundays; we want to reimagine every day–and indeed every aspect–of our lives as being under the lordship of Jesus Christ. We hope you will treat your weekday calling–whether that is white collar work, blue collar work, child rearing, or something else–as an opportunity to see more of God’s kingdom expressed here and now.