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01 / Our Theology

Love

is our theology. is our doctrine.

Across church history, humans keep trying to turn faith into a mental belief system. Believe this. Deny that. Say these words. Prove you are one of us. At its worst, religion becomes the same old human disease with holy language wrapped around it. But Jesus takes a highlighter and highlights one word.

And Now These Three Remain
Faith one day becomes sight
Hope one day is fulfilled
The Greatest Love never ends

Faith and hope carry us through the meantime. But the greatest of these is love, because love is the one that lasts forever.1 Corinthians 13:13

// In Time, These Fall Silent
  • Prophecies will cease.
  • Tongues will be stilled.
  • Knowledge will pass away.

Love never ends.

1 Corinthians 13:8
Jesus highlights one word
Love

Love is not the soft chapter after the serious theology. Love is the truth. The truth is love. Love is the commandment.

Before Anything Else

Before you believed a word. Before you fixed a single thing. Before you earned any of it, Love had already
chosen you.

God did not wait for the world to clean itself up. While we were still strangers, still wrong, still far off, God loved the world, and not the world as it should be. The world as it is. Not one nation, not one kind of person, not only the ones who got it right. The whole world. Everyone. You.

“God is love.”1 John 4:8
“For God so loved the world…”John 3:16
“While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8
The Whole World · Everyone
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The Great Commandment

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart… and your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these.”

Matthew 22:37–40 · WEB
God Is Love Love God Love Others Love Yourself

Love of God, neighbor, and self. Three names for one thing.

01
Love God

Loving God is not about thinking the right thoughts about Him. It is about turning your whole self toward Him. And that love shows up in how you treat people. Feed the hungry. Welcome the stranger. Visit the sick. Whatever you did for the least of these, you did for me.

Deut 6:5 · Matt 25:40
02
Love Others

Not by branding. Not by doctrinal flexing. People will know we follow Jesus by our love. And that love does not stay inside the group. Jesus pushes it all the way out. Neighbor. Stranger. Foreigner. Enemy. One another, and all.

John 13:35 · Lev 19:34
03
Love Yourself

Love your neighbor as yourself. Not instead of yourself. Not while drowning in shame and calling it holiness. Jesus assumes you already love yourself. You are made by God, known by God, worthy of care. You cannot pour out what you will not receive.

Matthew 22:39
// Love Pushes All The Way Out

The Field of Love

Neighbor. Stranger. Foreigner. Enemy. One another. All nations. Love is not a closed circle. It keeps moving outward until it reaches everyone.

All Nations
Enemy
Foreigner
Stranger
Neighbor
You
God Is Love

“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
John 12:32

Love Must Be Defined

The word love
gets abused.

Sometimes people say “love” when they mean control. “Truth” when they mean cruelty. “Holiness” when they mean exclusion. “Concern” when they mean judgment.

So scripture defines love for us. If what we call truth is impatient, unkind, arrogant, and keeping score, then it does not match love. And if it does not match love, it does not match the way of Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 · WEB
Patient & kind
Does not envy or brag
Not proud, not rude
Not self-seeking
Keeps no record of wrong
Rejoices with the truth
Bears, believes, hopes, endures

Tongues of men and angels. Prophecy. Every mystery. All knowledge. Mountain-moving faith. Without love, it all collapses into a clanging cymbal.I am nothing.

Without Love, We Are Nothing

Love is not
optional.

Paul refuses to treat love as a bonus virtue. You can have language, gifts, knowledge, mystery, sacrifice, and faith. Without love, it all becomes noise.

The goal of every command is love, from a pure heart and sincere faith. Not winning arguments. Not creating religious experts. The goal is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1–2 · 1 Timothy 1:5
Love Fulfills The Law

The whole law,
fulfilled in one word.

The whole law Love

Every command points to the same place. Love.  ·  Galatians 5:14 · Romans 13:8

Our Confession
01

We confess that love is the greatest command.

02

That love of God, neighbor, and self are inseparable.

03

That the whole law is fulfilled in love.

04

That without love, our knowledge and gifts become empty noise.

05

That the mark of discipleship is love.

06

That God is love. So love is not a footnote to our theology. Love is our theology.

Love God fully.

Love others freely.

Love yourself rightly.

Because God is love, and love is the way.

02 / What We Hold

United Under
the Banner of Christ

We are a decentralized, Christo-centric community. People from many backgrounds and countries who gather in digital space, look past our minor differences, and seek to know God, become like Jesus, and love one another. Here is what holds us together, and who is welcome.

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Safe Harbor

A place to belong. Not a place to be policed.

If you're seeking to know and follow Jesus, we want this to be a safe harbor for you. If you're here to force your religious convictions on others through a list of do's and don'ts, this is not the place for you.

Our energy goes to discipling the people God puts in front of us. Not to fighting over who is in and who is out.

2 Timothy 2:23
On Universality

Not universalism. Universality.

Not This
The idea that God forces everyone into heaven, whether they want Him or not.
But This
God is so good, so beautiful, so irresistible that when the nations truly meet Him, they respond.

Love does not force. Love draws. We believe a day is coming when people from every nation, tribe, and tongue freely turn toward the God who loved them first. Not because they were made to. Because once you really see Him, you cannot help it.

“And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”John 12:32
Revelation 7:9
Frequently Asked
01What is your denomination?

We are a decentralized, Christo-centric church community, united under the banner of Christ, His teachings, and His authority. We are people from many backgrounds and countries who gather in digital space, look past our minor differences, and try to know God better, become more like Jesus, and love and support one another.

02What does decentralized mean?

Our leadership is far less top-heavy than a traditional church. Our elders and pastors come from many denominational backgrounds and agree on the essentials of the risen Christ. We honor everyone as the royal priesthood they already are, and we work to soften the hard line between pastor and laity.

At the same time, we still hold a clear leadership structure, because a community needs protecting and a vision needs carrying. Authority here exists to serve and shepherd, never to lord over. We hold different views on the doctrines people love to debate, and we stay humble about how we read scripture. Our priority is simple. Introduce every person, whatever they believe or wherever they come from, to the love of God, and meet them where they are.

03How can you baptize someone online?

Scripture describes several kinds of baptism. The one most people picture is not the one that saves.

Of Moses
To be immersed in the presence of God. (1 Cor 10)
Of John
Repentance. Turning from an old life toward Jesus.
Of Jesus
A life of self-sacrifice, presented as a living offering. (Rom 12)
By the Spirit
Brought into the community of believers, gifted to serve. (1 Cor 12)
By Water
An outward sign. Not required for salvation.

It is not about getting wet. It is about the Living Water, being brought into a living relationship with a living God. That can happen anywhere.

04Doesn't the Bible say women must be silent?

Two verses in Corinthians and Timothy get used to silence women. But scripture has to be read in full context, not built on a couple of cherry-picked lines. And God does not contradict Himself. In Acts 2, the Spirit is poured out on sons and daughters alike, and they prophesy together.

Women shaped Israel's history, Jesus' ministry, and the founding of the Church. Jesus sent the woman at the well and the women at the empty tomb as the first to proclaim the good news. Women lead, teach, and prophesy here.

Official Statements & Responses
// If You Think God Hates You

You Are Loved.

Anyone telling you that God hates you, that you are not lovable, is lying. They do not know Him. God is love, and everyone who loves has been born of God.

He came in human form, took on your pain, and died in your place so you could live. Nothing you do could ever separate His love from you.

1 John 4:7–8
// LGBTQ+ Allies

You Are Welcome Here. Fully.

We are allies to the LGBTQ+ community. You are welcome here exactly as you are: loved, seen, and safe.

Our goal is a place to know the love of Jesus, where every person is treated with dignity and respect. All people are created in the image of God.

Genesis 1:27
// How We Share Faith

Meet People
Where They Are.

Imagine if the first thing someone did, every time they saw you, was list everything you were doing wrong. Would you feel loved? Safe? Jesus meets us where we are.

The Great Commission was never “go and force your convictions on everyone.” Let your speech be seasoned with salt. We invite people to come and get to know Jesus. We do not push our convictions onto them.

Colossians 4:6 · Matthew 28
// On Christian Nationalism

They Will Know Us By Our ___

A Doctrinal stances
B Political allegiance
C What we're against
D Love

A politician is not the answer. A government is not the answer. Jesus handed the Great Commission to His followers, not to Caesar. Our citizenship is in His Kingdom, not in any country here.

1 Peter 2 · John 13:35