The Jesus Movement

Bishop Michael Curry, the presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States, calls our church “the Episcopal branch of the Jesus movement.” Borrowing a term from decades back, Bishop Curry speaks of a movement that comprises the whole body of believers–all those that follow our Lord Jesus in his loving, liberating, and life-giving teachings in living out their relationships with Him, each other, and the whole of creation.

Jesus invites us to a life-giving faith

In the Gospel of Luke

We hear the story of a young woman who, upon beholding an angel sent by God, was given the first chance to say “yes” to the invitation to know the Lord Jesus. In her embrace of this invitation,  Jesus, who is the Son of God the Father, was made incarnate, uniting our humanity to his divinity. 

In a world where death, suffering, and legalism ruled because of mankind’s sin, God came into the world as a human being to bring hope and redemption to the creation that He had so beautifully created. As only an uncreated and immortal and mighty God could do, Jesus suffered and was put to death so that he might conquer death and raise humanity to live in communion with God and thus fulfill the very purpose for which man was created. 

Jesus extends an invitation to us who make our way through this world: an invitation to hope, to love, to forgiveness, and to a life of extraordinary, even Godly, character. This invitation is to participate in a relationship with the God who created us and can give us rest from the toil and pain of our lives. Jesus invites each of us to come to know him more deeply. In Jesus, we don’t just find good moral teaching and forgiveness of sins…we find our reason to be and are invited to grow with one another and with Jesus as we do the work of love.

Growing as the Episcopal Branch of the Jesus Movement

Celebrating the way of love that our Lord Jesus teaches us, we are empowered to grow in relationship.

Growing with God through

Evangelism

We celebrating and share the Good News of the Gospel of Salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and his relationship with his people throughout history.

Growing with each other by

Reconciliation

We practice relationships with each other and with God as formed by divine love. This means exercising charity and bringing the presence of our just God into the world in a way that brings us closer to our neighbor.

Growing with creation in

Stewardship

We seek and recognize the divine character of all of God’s creation in the natural world by exercising and encouraging responsible relationships with the environment around us.

Hear from Bishop Curry

“We are becoming a church that looks and acts like Jesus.”