What we Believe
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The Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, (who is elected to lead all of the Episcopal Churches USA) has engaged us to participate in the Jesus Movement.
What is the Jesus Movement?
We’re following Jesus into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, with each other and with the earth.
How do we join?
First, we follow Jesus. We are simply the Episcopal branch of Christianity (we call it the Jesus Movement) seeking every day to love Jesus with our whole heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40). Just like Jesus.
What’s our work?
We’re working on simple practices for each priority area – if it’s a Movement, then we should all be able to grasp the ideas and get on board. Then we’re mapping a strategy that inspires and equips all of us to join God and make a difference.
The Jesus Movement takes you places. For the Episcopal Church, it calls us to focus on three specific Jesus Movement Priorities:
Evangelism:
Listen for Jesus' movement in our lives and in the world. Give thanks. Proclaim and celebrate it! Invite the Spirit to do the rest.
Reconciliation:
Embody the loving, liberating, life-giving way of Jesus with each other
Creation Care:
Encounter and honor the face of God in creation
What is the Jesus Movement?
We’re following Jesus into loving, liberating and life-giving relationship with God, with each other and with the earth.
How do we join?
First, we follow Jesus. We are simply the Episcopal branch of Christianity (we call it the Jesus Movement) seeking every day to love Jesus with our whole heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Matthew 22:36-40). Just like Jesus.
What’s our work?
We’re working on simple practices for each priority area – if it’s a Movement, then we should all be able to grasp the ideas and get on board. Then we’re mapping a strategy that inspires and equips all of us to join God and make a difference.
The Jesus Movement takes you places. For the Episcopal Church, it calls us to focus on three specific Jesus Movement Priorities:
Evangelism:
Listen for Jesus' movement in our lives and in the world. Give thanks. Proclaim and celebrate it! Invite the Spirit to do the rest.
- Inspire Episcopalians to embrace evangelism
- Gather Episcopal evangelists
- Equip all to be evangelists
- Send all as evangelists
Reconciliation:
Embody the loving, liberating, life-giving way of Jesus with each other
- Tell the truth about church and race
- Rewrite the narrative
- Form Episcopalians as reconcilers
- Repair & Restore institutions & society
Creation Care:
Encounter and honor the face of God in creation
- Develop creation care resources
- Grow local eco-ministries
- Pursue eco-justice at church-wide and local levels
- Convene conversations around climate and faith