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IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING
What if "church" were a verb instead of a noun?
What if church was not a location to come to and stay within, but a base of operation for expressing your faith by moving out into communities and around the globe to become part of God's plan for world transformation?
If you found such a "place," would you come?
You are invited to explore the Advent UMC website to see for yourself how the people of Advent are rethinking and renewing what the church is and should be in the 21st century.
We are an active and engaged faith community. We hope you will find a doorway at Advent that you will be comfortable walking through in order to connect with God, with the world around you, and with a community of people that will love and care for you and help you along the journey of your life.
For more information about rethinking church, go to 10thousanddoors.org..
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Our Purpose Statement
To cooperate with the Holy Spirit,
by inviting all people into relationship with Jesus Christ
through engaging worship, service and spiritual growth.
What if "church" was thought of not as a building, but as thousands of doors, each of them opening to a different concept or experience of church, so that whoever knocks might find a journey to call their own?
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If You're Wondering
What United Methodists believe
United Methodists profess the historic Christian faith in God as known to us in Jesus Christ and who is ever at work in human history through the Holy Spirit. We gather together as God's people to praise God through our prayers, presence, gifts, service and witness.
As a Household of Faith, Christ's Holy Church, we believe:
That God has mercy and love for every person.
In a triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
In the mystery of salvation through Jesus Christ.
In celebrating the Sacraments.
In these and many other ways, United Methodism affirms within "the communion of saints" our oneness in Christ.
United Methodists share four main guidelines for belief. These guidelines help them understand their faith, and include:
- Scripture - the primary source for Christian doctrine
- Tradition - the passing on and receiving of the gospel among people and generations - a dynamic element of Christian history
- Experience - claiming Christian witness as our own through truths revealed in Scripture that we have experienced in our own lives
- Reason - our quest for reasoned understandings of Christian faith by which we seek to grasp, express, and live out the gospel as a thoughtful person seeking to know and follow God's ways.
These guidelines are interdependent and allow for variety in individual theology. United Methodists allow for the possibility that there is virtue in differing points of view within the same community of believers.
For more information, visit the UMC's General Board of Discipleship website www.gbod.org or www.umc.org and click on "Our Faith: Beliefs".
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