MCC's Statement of Vision

Metropolitan Community Churches are on a bold mission to transform hearts, lives and history. We are a movement that faithfully proclaims God's inclusive love for all people and proudly bears witness to the holy integration of spirituality and sexuality.

Just as Jesus did, we are called to:

Do justice, show kindness and live humbly with God. (Micah 6:8)

Explore life's questions with open hearts and minds.

Raise our voices in sacred defiance against religious (and political or systemic) exclusion.

Reach out to those with no hope.

Lift up new Generations of remarkable, far reaching spiritual activists.

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We Believe:

In one Triune God, all powerful, present everywhere, and all-knowing, of one substance and three persons: God – our Parent/Creator; Jesus the Christ – Child of God; 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 the earth in the being of Jesus the Christ.

That Jesus the Christ 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.

We are saved from loneliness, despair and degradation through God's gift of grace, as was declared by our Savior. Such grace is not earned, but is a pure gift from a God of pure love.

The church serves to bring all people to God through the Christ. To this end, it shall arrange for regular services of worship, prayer, interpretation of the Scriptures, and edification through the teaching and preaching of the Word.

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MCC's Statement of Purpose

As God's liberated people, we boldly...

Reclaim our Holy Identity: At MCC, we believe that even in our humanness, we are holy. We are liberated from other people's definitions of who we are. We are made both body and spirit. We believe that our sexuality is a holy gift from God so we no longer distance our bodies from our experience with God. We are a people who proudly participate in the communion of body and spirit.

Advance our call to Social Justice and Action: At MCC, we believe that Jesus led the way in acts of compassion and acts of justice. Because we have been a people in the margins of society, we understand fully the grace that God has extended to us. We seek to distance ourselves from exclusion and draw ourselves closer to including all those who are marginalized in any way. We stand boldly with those who resist the structures of exclusion, as Jesus did, and work to insure freedom for all people. In the margins, we are blessed.

Tell the story of God's Transforming Grace: At MCC we come as we are to Christ and are changed by what we find. We experience a God with open arms, inviting all to take the sacred journey of faith and transformation. We are growing in our faith and claim that our place in society has magnified our place in God's family. We are one of the many voices of God that, until now, has been lost in the margins! Nurture the values of Community: At MCC, we believe our ultimate ministry is in our world. We know that in order to that any are excluded from the family of God.

Build bridges that Liberate and Unite: At MCC, we have experienced the soul destruction that comes from hate filled rhetoric. In restoring our souls, we have come to find that our voices will speak the liberation that comes through peace, compassion, love, respect and grace. As followers of Jesus, we believe in everyone's holy privilege to work out their own salvation. While we are a Christian Church who follows Jesus, we respect those of other faith traditions and work together with them to free all those who are oppressed by hate, disregard and violence.