WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe in one God...
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ...
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life...
-The Nicene Creed
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ...
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life...
-The Nicene Creed
These words make up the structure of the creed of beliefs we proclaim each Sunday, and are the basis of all we do at GRACE.
We believe we are called to welcome all as Christ. We believe we are meant to care for each other, for the earth, and for the community outside of our beautiful stone walls.
The fine details of our beliefs are clearly spelled out in Q&A form in the Catechism section (Page 843) of the Book of Common Prayer. The BCP is a treasure of prayer, scripture and worship and is in every pew at Grace Church. [CHECK OUT THE BCP ONLINE]
We believe we are called to welcome all as Christ. We believe we are meant to care for each other, for the earth, and for the community outside of our beautiful stone walls.
The fine details of our beliefs are clearly spelled out in Q&A form in the Catechism section (Page 843) of the Book of Common Prayer. The BCP is a treasure of prayer, scripture and worship and is in every pew at Grace Church. [CHECK OUT THE BCP ONLINE]
THE JESUS MOVEMENT
We are the Episcopal branch of THE JESUS MOVEMENT. The Jesus Movement is the ongoing community of people who center their lives on Jesus and following him into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, each other and creation.
Together, we follow Jesus as we love God with our whole heart, soul and mind and love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40), and restore each other and all of creation to unity with God in Christ (BCP, p. 855).
Jesus launched this movement when he welcomed the first disciples to follow his loving, liberating, life-giving Way. Today, we participate in his movement with our whole lives: our prayer, worship, teaching, preaching, gathering, healing, action, family, work, play and rest.
Together, we follow Jesus as we love God with our whole heart, soul and mind and love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40), and restore each other and all of creation to unity with God in Christ (BCP, p. 855).
Jesus launched this movement when he welcomed the first disciples to follow his loving, liberating, life-giving Way. Today, we participate in his movement with our whole lives: our prayer, worship, teaching, preaching, gathering, healing, action, family, work, play and rest.
As the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement, and followers of Jesus’ Way, we seek to live like him. We’re serious about moving out to grow loving, liberating, life-giving relationships with God (evangelism); to grow those relationships with each other (reconciliation); and to grow those relationships with all of creation (creation care).
C.O.R.E Christianity - The Episcopal/Anglican Foundation
Physical Trainers know that whole body strength and well being is undergirded by exercising your physical Core. Within the myriad communities of the Christian family we consider the Episcopal-Anglican heritage to be one that builds C.O.R.E. Christianity. One often hears us described as Catholic AND Reformed, but this is incomplete.
We are:
C.O.R.E. Christianity allows us to do what Anglicans have always done: take the best and dump the rest. We draw from three powerful streams of Christian expression and the stream of Enlightenment Reason and all the disciplines of thought it had birthed. It takes some work to find harmony and balance, but that is the point of living an informed spiritual life.
While we recognize that our own members may find more of a home in one stream or another and more spiritually satisfaction within their preferred stream, Anglicanism is the comprehensive whole that is more than the sum of the parts. The treasure of the Episcopal Anglican Heritage is the fusion of the life of the mind with the life of the spirit drawing on the deep truths found in its four converging streams.
We are:
- Catholic in our sensibilities about sacraments and ordered prayer;
- Orthodox (and Celtic) in our sense of mystery, beauty, asceticism that is not afraid to critique and withdraw from the world when necessary, and includes a profound appreciation for nature.
- Reformed in our recovery of an appropriate use of Scripture and a careful critique of inherited Christian governing structures.
- Enlightenment in our maintenance of a connection between Faith and Science and our openness to new learning as it unfolds in the scientific world. This includes our embrace of a progressive political theory that structures governance to respect and protect the dignity of every soul. The Arc of Liberty from the Magna Carta to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a monumental advancement in delivering a quality of life to everyone and it is a specific part of our heritage as Anglicans from Richard Hooker to the present moment.
C.O.R.E. Christianity allows us to do what Anglicans have always done: take the best and dump the rest. We draw from three powerful streams of Christian expression and the stream of Enlightenment Reason and all the disciplines of thought it had birthed. It takes some work to find harmony and balance, but that is the point of living an informed spiritual life.
While we recognize that our own members may find more of a home in one stream or another and more spiritually satisfaction within their preferred stream, Anglicanism is the comprehensive whole that is more than the sum of the parts. The treasure of the Episcopal Anglican Heritage is the fusion of the life of the mind with the life of the spirit drawing on the deep truths found in its four converging streams.