MCC Statements of Vision, Purpose, and Direction
MCC 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.
MCC Statement of Purpose
As God’s liberated
people, we boldly . . .
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Reclaim our Holy
Identity
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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.
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Advance our call to Social
Justice and Action
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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.
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Tell the story of
God’s Transforming Grace
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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!
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Nurture the value of
Community
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At MCC, we believe our ultimate ministry is in the world. We
know that in order to prepare ourselves for radical service that
changes lives, we must equip ourselves and others in the safety of a supportive
community. We strive
to live out a message that rejects the
idea that any are excluded from
the family of
God.
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Build bridges that
Liberate and Unite
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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 ineveryone’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.
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MCC Statement of
Direction
MCC has staked
its claim. As one of the
world’s emerging churches,
we are proclaiming a spirituality that is liberating and sufficiently
profound to address the issues of our chaotic and complicated world. We
live out our belief that in the margins we are blessed and
we are offering multiple ways for people to access our message of
liberation and inclusion. Through church planting, church
revitalization, alliances, the internet, and our work in acts of
compassion and justice, we will
expand our reach substantially over the next few years. MCC
will become a name known to an increasing number of
people as a place where all are welcomed and
our service to those who
are excluded is a primary focus of our ministry . We will be leaders in the world about
the union of spirituality and sexuality by
articulating our message and spreading it
effectively.
Also see our Core Values...
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