Church

(I’m working on a new blog/website for The Table, I will let you know when it is up.)

To be a follower of Christ, a simple thing you learn soon along the way is that you can’t do it alone, nor are we called to.   

Instead we are to be the Body of Christ in the world, joining with others as we stumble through living our lives as people called to live into the statement that Jesus is Lord.   

The fellowship that we attend is called The Table, an emerging Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia. We are a rag tag group of people that meet regularly to worship, covenant, celebrate the Eucharist, and eat together.

I would give you a website, but we are working on it, so when it’s done I’ll inform everyone.  

For now I will offer you our Confession:

 As an emerging Mennonite church

                  in Harrisonburg

                  we confess our faith:

 

that God loves the world

                  and created it good;

    that the world is infested with evil that 

                   entraps, deceives, kills and destroys;

    that God in Jesus Christ acted decisively

                  to deliver us from evil;

    that through Jesus’ life, death and

                  resurrection

                  God’s salvation became available

                       for the whole world, a 

                                    salvation intent on restoring goodness

                                        in all of God’s realm;

    that through confession of faith, believers’

                  baptism and the indwelling Holy Spirit

                      we are birthed into new life

                                    as adopted children in God’s family;

    that this new family, the church,

                  is God’s way of showing the 

                      character of God’s salvation -

                                    the joy, love, unity, peace, hope, and

                                        justice that God desires

                                                      for all humankind;

    that as children of God,

                  we become disciples and friends of Jesus

                      who turn from serving ourselves to

                                    serve God in the world.

As we taste and see that God is good,

    we join Jesus in welcoming other to

                  his table, to the fellowship of his friends. 

 

I would love to have any dialogue as we all try to discern what it means to be the Body of Christ