We choose the word pursuits carefully. They aren’t requirements for membership. Anyone who wants to follow Jesus belongs here. And they aren’t accomplishments; our constant confession is that we’re all struggling under the weight of one kind of brokenness or another. They’re simply the concrete practices we hope will anchor our lives in God’s work of redemption.
“God’s redemption should extend to our interior life and to the way we relate to the world.”
Most of the conflicts and problems churches face can be traced back to some lack of relational or emotional wholeness. The brokenness we’ve experienced in past relationships, and in our own interior life, has a way of seeping into our relationships.
Because of this conviction, we hope to experience redemption in four directions: the way we relate to God, to others, to ourselves, and to the created order.
We practice fidelity with one another, in large part by bearing with one another in love, and sometimes by speaking the truth to one another in love. The balance of those two helps us practice vulnerability, and model the kind of redemptive relationships we believe should be normative in the kingdom of God.