About

What is the Metropolitan Community Churches?
Metropolitan Community Churches is a universal fellowship of Christian churches with the mission in the world to Tear Down Walls, and Build Up Hope , as we respond to issues of injustice in our world.  We bring to the world the message of God’s inclusive love.

Philosophy

We are called as Christians to:

• stand in solidarity with those who are marginalized and oppressed, 
• be partners in working for change, 
• be witnesses who call attention to Human Rights abuses, 
• be a voice in the international community for justice, 
• lift up new generations of remarkable, far-reaching spiritual activists, 
• build on hope and create our future.

What is justice?

The demand of God for justice is so central that other responses to God are empty or diminished if they exist without it (Amos 5:21-24; Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 23:23).

God is the defender of the poor and the oppressed (Jeremiah 9:23-24, Psalm 10:17-18)

When we properly carry out justice, we are agents of divine will (Isaiah 59:15-16)

The context for the carrying out of justice is the creation of community and the preservation of people in it (Leviticus 25:35-36; Job 24:5; Psalm 107:36; Luke 7:29-30).

MCC’s Statement of Faith…

This is the simple declaration of what MCC believes, as stated in our By-Laws, and accepted by our General Conference:

“Christianity is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and is the religion set forth in the scriptures. Jesus Christ is foretold in the Old Testament, presented in the New Testament, and proclaimed by the Christian Church in every age and in every land.

Founded in the interest of offering a church home to all who confess and believe, Metropolitan Community Churches moves in the mainstream of Christianity.

Our faith is based upon the principles outlined in the historic creeds: Apostles and Nicene.

We believe:

-In one triune God, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, of one substance and of three persons: God – our Parent-Creator; Jesus Christ the only begotten son of God, God in flesh, human; and the Holy Spirit – God as our Sustainer.

-That the Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God, showing forth God to every person through the law and the prophets, and finally, completely and ultimately on earth in the being of Jesus Christ.

-That Jesus…the Christ…historically recorded as living some 2,000 years before this writing, is God incarnate, of human birth, fully God and fully human, and that by being one with God, Jesus has demonstrated once and forever that all people are likewise Children of God, being spiritually made in God’s image.

-That the Holy Spirit is God making known God’s love and interest to all people. The Holy Spirit is God, available to and working through all who are willing to place their welfare in God’s keeping.

-Every person is justified by grace to God through faith in Jesus Christ.