About

We exist together as a living witness to the wisdom, wonder, and way of Jesus through our communities.

At Beloved Community, our mission is to connect, adopt, launch, and support churches and initiatives that serve the people tangibly and spiritually in their local contexts.

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Our values

1. Love and Worship of God

Our core value is to love and worship the God revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe worship isn’t confined to Sundays but extends to every aspect of our lives, glorifying God in all we do.

2. Love is Central

Love is at the heart of our community. Just as God calls us His beloved, we seek to love one another and the world, reflecting the boundless love we’ve received from God.

3. Unwavering Devotion to Scripture, Prayer, and Worship

We cherish the Bible as God’s authoritative word and hold prayer and worship as essential commitments that center our relationship with God.

4. Jesus-Centered Living

We center our lives on the Person of Jesus, proclaiming the Gospel with our words and living it out through our actions, embodying the transformative power of Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.

5. Commitment to Discipleship

Following Jesus’s example and mandate, we are committed to making disciples, teaching and equipping all followers of Jesus to live out God’s word through obedience in all areas of life.

6. Intentional Unity exemplified in Family

We embrace the biblical reality of the church as family, striving to live the “one another’s” of scripture in harmony, forgiveness, and mutual support, embodying the interconnectedness of the body of Christ.

7. Global and Local Church Unity

We affirm our unity with the universal church, partnering with other believers locally and globally, honoring God’s work and ministry through prayer, relationships, and resource-sharing.

8. Gender Equality and Full Image-Bearing

We value the full participation of men and women in ministry, recognizing both genders as equal bearers of God’s image, called to serve and lead together as family and missionaries.

9. Multi-Ethnicity/Cultural and Diversity

We celebrate diversity as a reflection of God’s Kingdom established in his new covenant, striving to align and live into the new covenant of grace we will prioritize to be a multi-ethnic community that bears witness to God’s reconciling work.

10. Celebrating Spiritual Gifts

We recognize and celebrate the diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit within the body of Christ, serving one another with humility and gentleness. We will recognize and ordain all the ministry gifts established in God’s word.

11. Justice and Peacemaking

Justice and Peacemaking is integral to our Christian witness; we actively pursue justice as an expression of love toward our neighbors, particularly the marginalized and oppressed. We will stand in the tensions of culture being peacemakers as far as it depends on us.

12. Radical Hospitality

Inspired by Christ’s example, we extend radical hospitality to all, welcoming strangers and offering them a place of belonging and grace.

13. Understanding and Honoring Context

We value understanding and honoring the unique ministry contexts of each local community, seeking to learn from one another, respect differences, and grow together in love and unity.

Our shared beliefs

1. Union with Christ

We believe our union with Christ is our central truth of salvation and a foundational revelation for believers.

Triune mystery

The unity of God in the Trinity reflects the glory of believers’ union with Christ.

Incarnation

Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension unite humanity with God through the Holy Spirit.

Transformation

This union opens up possibilities for humanity and creation to be transformed and renewed.

Eternal union

Believers are considered to be in an eternal, unbreakable union with God through Christ, expressed as “We are in Christ, and Christ is in us.”

2. Unity of the church

We believe our union with Christ affirms and fuels our unity as the church through Jesus’ prayer, living in unity, and through the work of the Spirit.

3. Jesus is our Lord, lens, and lane

We believe that believers are to submit, see, and act as followers of Jesus, fully immersed in His life and mission.

Jesus is our:

Lord

Jesus is our sovereign, and believers are called to submit to His authority and leadership.

Lens

Through Jesus, we view the church and the world, shaping our perspective and understanding.

Lane

Jesus provides the path we walk, guiding our actions and mission.

4. The true story of scripture

We believe the Bible is a cohesive narrative rather than a fragmented collection of isolated stories and teachings. This gives us:

Holistic perspective

We approach the Bible with a holistic perspective to grasp the overarching themes and purposes of God’s redemptive plan.

Declaration of God’s word

We want people to understand the text in its context through our preaching of God’s word, and hope they find their place in God’s story as His people on mission, pointing to the day He will return.

Story arc

We see a clear story arc of Creation, Fall, Israel, Redemption, Church, and Restoration.

5. The body of Christ

We believe the church is the body of Christ, a Spirit-breathed, interconnected body with various gifts and roles.

We believe the body exists in:

Empowered church

We recognize and empower all gifts within the church, ensuring every member’s contribution is valued.

Mutual submission

Submitting to Christ and to each other, we function as a unified body.

Fivefold leadership

All leadership gifts are still active and needed to serve, support, and structure the body of Christ.

6. Multi-ethnic family

We believe the church is inherently multiethnic. Jesus broke down walls of hostility, enabling His church to display this diversity.

A picture of heaven

A diverse church provides a glimpse of heaven on earth, representing all nations, tribes, and tongues. It is our prayer and to be a picture of Heaven on earth.

Commitment to diversity

We believe to experience a glimpse of diversity requires dedicated prayer, strong leadership, and intentional effort.

Intentionality in decisions

This isn’t about quotas or metrics, but about deliberate leadership and decision-making that shapes our culture and influences our outcomes across all of the Beloved Communities.

7. Mothers and fathers

We believe the unity and roles of men and women are essential for the church to be a healthy family. In this family, we envision a church where mothers and fathers contribute their gifts, allowing the family of God to flourish.

We believe in:

Mutual submission and service

Distinction, equality, and unity among men and women are rooted in mutual submission and shared authority, reflecting the nature of God and harmony in creation.

Church family roles

We believe it is essential for men and women to lead together at every level of the church’s governance. Each congregation may embody this in unique ways, provided it does not result in the exclusion of either women or men from this partnership. We are committed to promoting and upholding a spirit of “Mutualism” in our community, encouraging accountability and shared responsibility in all that we do.

Ordination and roles

While men will continue to be licensed and ordained. Support for the ordination of women as ministers and pastors is crucial, recognizing their essential shepherding roles within our community.

8. Covenant

We believe covenant is the backbone to the redemptive story, it provides the structural framework upon which relationship with God and others is held together.

Relational and personal

Unlike a contract, which is transactional, covenants are relational and personal. They are often marked by oaths, signs, and ceremonies, rooted in love and involving defined devotion and commitments.

Covenant with God

This is a foundational aspect of our relationship with God, signifying a sacred love and commitment from Him to us. In response, we humbly commit as His covenant people.

Covenant with others

Reflects our community relationships, grounded in mutual desire and devotion. We operate in a place of biblical covenant with each other, uniting the community in love and commitment.

Church as a covenant family

The church operates similarly to the institution of the family, covenantally uniting to birth and sending new covenant families. This institution is intentionally different from those of the world.

9. Revelation embodied

We believe when God opens our eyes to the reality of who He is, becoming the soil from which all our relationships and ministry of reconciliation start, are sustained, and bear fruit.

Our shared revelations:

Distinct, equal, one

Through the revelation of the Trinitarian God, we understand what it is to be distinct, equal, and one.

Relationships reflecting revelation

We aim for our relationships to mirror the union between the Father, Son, and Spirit (John 17:21-23). God’s people are distinct (diverse, unique, different), equal (mutually submissive, honoring each other, sharing in divinity), and one (united, known in relationship to each other).

Diverse church

A church rooted in this revelation will recognize each other’s gifts, practice mutual care, live as family, and experience a unity that is a manifestation of heaven on earth.

Reconciliation fruit of revelation

A united church has wide branches where the birds of the air can find rest. The church’s mission in the world includes reaching out, sharing tables, and displaying God’s kingdom. This church is on mission and a rooted community spreading its branches of hospitality to the nations.