Our Values - Belonging

In a world of isolation, Belonging

While the world at large experiences an epidemic of loneliness, the church offers a household of belonging through faith. All people can find welcome in this family structure, one body of many members whose head is Jesus Christ, who binds us together through his shed blood.

We make a practice of cultivating Belonging through:

Corporate Life: Table Groups

The primary place where we create room to belong to Christ’s family is through Table Groups, our version of small groups. They are meant to be an extension of Sunday’s communion table: while the emphasis on Sunday is the sacrament of communion, the spiritual body of Christ that we receive by faith, the emphasis of Table Groups is the body of Christ that we find in each other. Our Table Groups follow a liturgy that mirrors the Sunday Eucharist: we gather together; listen to God’s word; respond in prayer; feast together; and are sent out.

Personal Life: Hosting and Hospitality

The New Testament puts forward a concept that doesn’t always have a great representation in the modern American church: the idea of a household. We want to recover this concept of belonging in its many incarnations, whether that is your nuclear family, roommates, or small group of friends.

Whether it is through hosting people in our homes, regular coffee meetings, play dates or walks, we want to practice hosting and hospitality often.