Fri. Feb. 11, 2022

Reclaim our Christian Identity

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry

Come and see. We are becoming a church that looks and acts like Jesus.

We are becoming a new and re-formed church, the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement—

What does this re-formation look like in practice? We’ll know we’re moving forward when we…

Reclaim our Christian identity as a Spirit-driven, countercultural, underground movement.

We must break free of the church’s identification with domination systems, empire, establishment, privilege, and social and cultural traditions that have held us captive— and get back in touch with the risk-taking, liberating ways of Jesus.

God is love, and God’s very being is a trinity of loving relationship: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In Christ, God invites us to share that love; wherever there is pain or alienation, God longs to knit all people and creation back into wholeness and relationship.

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).

TRY THIS: Look around and notice wherever you see people nurturing relationship 1) with God, 2) with each other and 3) with creation. What’s happening? What’s helping people to heal and live in sync with God, with each other and with the earth? What are the fruits of these relationships?