community 2.0

Some core values:

* Led by God - we acknowedge how frequently we substitute our own hopes, dreams, desires, and plans for God’s hopes and dreams. We have been intentional about moving slowly, studying scripture together, praying together, and seeking God’s guidance as a group. We value that process and want to keep that pace for major descisions.
* Community - not a church, bible study, or accountablity group, more then roommates. We seek to understand our faith, our theology, our purpose, and our actions from a communal point of view. Each of us speaks God’s words to each other, and it is in the sharing of words that we meet The Word.
* Hospitality - our orientation is focused on those outside our immediate family. We hope to a place where “the other” is welcomed and embraced.

* Incarnational Living - we seek to be the church, to be an example of God’s grace, in how we live, love, and share with others.

* Sharing - we seek to embrace the model of the church in Acts “That shared with each according to their need.” We seek to know the needs of our community (corprate and neighborhood) and to commit to meeting those needs together.

* Alternative - we want to present an alternative narative to the “American Dream” / “Suberban Dream” that many of us feel was taught to us.

* Gospel - we seek to be good news. We are not doing this driven by angst or frustration but also by excitement and joy. We seek to be good news in our neighborhood, good news to the neighborhood, and good news to the church universal.

* Food - we enjoy eating together. We want part of our idenity as a community to be centered around the table and around christ’s table.

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