Living the Questions

Progressive Christianity
Center for Progressive Christianity: http://www.tcpc.org/
8 Points of Progressive Christianity

https://www.tcpc.org/about/the_8_points_english.html

By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who…
1. Have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus;
2. Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us;
3. Understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus' name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God's feast for all peoples;
4. Invite all people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable (including but not limited to):

believers and agnostics,
conventional Christians and questioning skeptics,
women and men,
those of all sexual orientations and gender identities,
those of all races and cultures,
those of all classes and abilities,
those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope;
5. Know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe;
6. Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes;
7. Form ourselves into communities dedicated to equipping one another for the work we feel called to do: striving for peace and justice among all people, protecting and restoring the integrity of all God's creation, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers; and
8. Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.
 

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This spring our church participated in a 12 week DVD and  web-based small group program of Christian invitation, initiation and spiritual formation
The program will continued through April 5 and started Jan. 11th and goes to April 5th with worship only on Ash Wednesday, March 1st.
Living the Questions Brochure

Themes of the program
  An Invitation to Journey
Thinking Theologically
Creativity and Stories of Creation
Restoring Relationships
Evil and a God of Love: The Place of Suffering
Intimacy with God
Social Justice and The Prophets
 
A Kingdom Without Walls: Ruth & Jonah
Lives of Jesus
Compassion: the Heart of Jesus' Ministry
A Passion for Christ: Paul the Apostle
Out into the World: Challenges Facing Progressive Christianity
The Contribution of Wesleyan Theology
 
Ongoing themes include:
Biblical authority
Metaphor and how it shapes us
The Jesus/Christ dichotomy
What does faith look like in the 21st Century?
The 20-30 minute videos for each session included conversation, sermon clips, comedy/satire, lecture excerpts, and spiritual exercises for practical applications (including different forms of prayer and meditation, movement, walking the labyrinth, etc). Since the overall theme is that of faith as a journey, not a destination, the web site http://www.livingthequestions.com/ will offer resources for continued exploration, including downloadable expanded study guides, extra video resources, and links.
More information coming soon