Christianity is the revelation of God, in Jesus Christ, and is the religion set forth in the scriptures. Jesus Christ is foretold in the Hebrew Scriptures, presented in the Christian Scriptures, and proclaimed by the Christian Church in every age and in every land. Founded in the interest of offering a church home to all who confess and believe, Metropolitan Community Churches moves in the mainstream of Christianity. 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 persona: God - our Parent-Creator; Jesus Christ the only begotten child of God, God in flesh, human; and the Holy Spirit - God, as our Sustainer.
* -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.
* -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.
* -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.
* -Every person is justified by grace to God through faith in Jesus, the Christ.
This is the simple declaration of what MCC believes, as stated in our By-Laws, and accepted by our General Conference.
And here in our spiritual home: We are a Progressive Christian Community.
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean we are Christians who:
1— Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus;
2— Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God’s realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us;
3— Understand our sharing of bread and wine in Jesus’ name to be a representation of ancient vision of God’s feast for all peoples;
4— Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable, including (but not limited to): believers and agnostics, conventional Christians and questioning skeptics, women and men, those of all sexual orientations, and gender identities, those of all races and cultures, those of all classes and abilities, those who hope for a better world, and those who have lost hope;
5— Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe;
6— Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning that in absolutes;
7— Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping on another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and justice among people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers;
8— Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil and renunciation of privilege.
