Just community, love, and a wide-open door. 🌊🏳️🌈 Are you a church? It depends on what you mean by "church". We're not trying to be coy, but we are sensitive about language and what we are communicating. If by "church" you mean a winsome band of mostly Jesus-followers, gathering together to encourage one another, connect with God, and bless the world around them...then yes, we're totally that. (Or
at least we aspire to be on our best days. Nobody's perfect.) But if "church" means pipe organs, gender inequality, a disdain for science, or a propensity to try to tell you how to think, then it's not a good description for what we're doing (though we honestly have nothing against pipe organs!). That's why we often opt for calling ourselves a "Community of Faith", because, honestly, we are. Are you Christian? Similar to "church", "Christian" can be a loaded word, meaning different things to different people. We try to follow Jesus. We believe Him to be the most clear picture of God we've seen in this life. By and large we seek not only to follow His teachings, as communicated through the stories in the Bible, but to live in connection with Him. We try to cultivate interactive relationships with Jesus so that we may be continually transformed by Him and made to be more like Him. Our hope in this is that, we, like He, can bring fullness of life to the world we inhabit. We welcome the religious, the non-religious, the agnostic, and the skeptical-but-curious to come along for the ride and be a part of this search for meaning that we find Jesus so helpful for. Call that what you will. We're not easily offended! SO You're a Faith "start-up"? What is that? It's really not that different from a tech start-up, but in this case we're channeling our entrepreneurial energies toward furthering a spiritual revolution, rather than a digital one. Right now we're in the early phases of community life, and are looking for folks to partner with who find the idea of building something new as important and exciting as we do. Are you a part of a denomination or anything? Not really a denomination in the classic sense, but we are associated with other like-minded people of faith who are also seeking to innovate in their practices. Like us, these folks tend to enjoy living and pursuing Jesus in largely secular, highly-educated areas (like college towns). The umbrella organization we all call home is called Blue Ocean Faith, and we are really grateful for our friendships and support network there.
