About The Way
The Way exists to be an ecumenical, egalitarian, and authentic expression of the Kingdom of God in the 21st century.
We are a spiritual community shaped by story—your story, our story, and the sacred story unfolding in Scripture. We want to be the kind of space where the experiences of all people are honored, where questions are welcome, and where lives are transformed through deep encounters with the Spirit of God.
Through weekly rhythms of prayer, scripture, sacrament, and spiritual practice, we seek to create space for awe, honesty, and healing.
Our Rule of Faith (What We Believe)
We believe in the gospel, the good news that the Kingdom of God is at hand (Mark 1:15). It is a sacred story to inhabit, a path to walk, and a love that transforms.
We stand in the long stream of those who have followed Jesus throughout history. Our faith is rooted in what has been passed down to us from the earliest disciples and expressed in ancient confessions like the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. These creeds anchor us in the heart of the Jesus story, a story bigger than any one generation, culture, or perspective, and one we continue to explore and live into together.
Our beliefs are simple and centered on the heart of the gospel: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the invitation to participate in the Kingdom of God here and now. We receive this story with humility, allowing it to shape our lives while making room for mystery, honest questions, and different ways of understanding. We trust the Spirit to lead us together through the complexities and conversations that arise along the way.
What follows is our community’s way of expressing the ancient Christian faith in language that resonates with our time and context:
We believe in God the Father, the creator of all things, who made every human being in the divine image. Though that image has been distorted in ourselves and in one another, God continues the work of restoration and reconciliation for the sake of the whole world.
We believe in God the Son, Jesus the Messiah, born of the Virgin Mary and fully human. Baptized and filled with the Spirit, he announced the reign of God through compassion, healing, justice, and love. His life, death, and resurrection reveal the way of new creation and continue to call us into lives shaped by grace, courage, forgiveness, and hope.
We believe in God the Spirit, the giver of life, who renews us from within. The Spirit inspired the prophets and scriptures, moved through the life of Jesus, and continues to draw us toward love, justice, healing, and transformation. Through the Spirit, we are being made whole.
We believe in the resurrection of the dead and the renewal of all things. We live with hope, trusting that the story of resurrection continues to open us to the mystery of God’s healing reign.
Our Rule of Life (How We Seek To Live)
Following Jesus has always been a way of life shaped by humility, compassion, love, courage, and attention to the presence of God.
We seek to embody that way through the ordinary rhythms of our lives and the practices we share together. Prayer, silence, Scripture, communion, hospitality, honest conversation, and care for one another help form the people we are becoming.
The shape of our days shapes the life of our souls. Through these practices, we seek to become more present to God, more honest with ourselves, more compassionate toward others, and more open to transformation.
We believe that following the Way of Jesus opens us to the Truth of Jesus and invites us into the Life of Jesus (John 14:6; 10:10). That movement— Way → Truth → Life— is what guides everything that follows.
Experiencing God’s Love and Life Together
We trust that God meets us with love and invites us to receive that love honestly, just as we are. As we become more deeply rooted in our belovedness, transformation unfolds through grace, attention, relationship, and the ordinary rhythms of life.
We experience this life together through shared meals, prayer, silence, laughter, grief, celebration, and honest conversation. Community gives us a place to be known, supported, challenged, forgiven, and continually drawn toward love.
Finding God in All Things
We believe the divine is present throughout the whole of life. God can be encountered in prayer and communion, in beauty and creativity, in relationships and work, in joy and suffering, and in the quiet moments that often pass unnoticed.
We practice paying attention to our lives with openness and curiosity. Every experience can become an invitation to notice what is stirring within us, what is shaping us, and where love may be calling us next.
Contemplation in Action
Contemplation invites us to slow down, become present, and listen beneath the noise of our lives. Through silence, prayer, reflection, and spiritual practice, we learn to recognize the movements of grace within us and around us.
This attention naturally moves outward. Contemplation shapes how we work, serve, create, forgive, seek justice, care for our neighbors, and participate in the healing of the world.
We seek a spirituality that is deeply attentive and fully engaged, rooted in prayer and expressed through love.
Rooted in Tradition, Open to Mystery
We receive the Christian tradition with gratitude, reverence, and humility. We root ourselves in the story of Jesus, the wisdom of Scripture, the beauty of the sacraments, the rhythm of the Christian calendar, and the creeds and practices that have carried the Church through centuries.
We inhabit this tradition together while recognizing that the mystery of God is always greater than our understanding. People within our community may hold different beliefs, interpretations, and levels of certainty while sharing the same practices, gathering around the same table, and seeking the divine together.
We honor the wisdom of those who came before us and remain attentive to what is unfolding among us now. We make room for silence, questions, mystery, grace, and love, trusting the Spirit to continue shaping us through the Christian story and through the lives we share.