Who We Are
A Deeper Dive: Who We Are
Inspired by the Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the 2001 Mission Statement of National City Christian Church, and the faithful community of our church today.
Voted unanimously to accept by the Congregational Board January 14, 2025 and presented to the congregation at the Congregational Meeting January 26, 2025, where the congregation gave a vote of approval.
As members of National City Christian Church, the national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, we confess that Jesus is the Christ, our living and active God, and proclaim Jesus the Christ, Lord and Savior of the world. In Christ’s name, limitless grace, and ever-expanding love, we accept our charge of faithful witness and service to all people. We rejoice in God, maker of heaven and earth and giver of free will and choice in all aspects of our lives, and we celebrate God’s people through a shared covenant of love.
Through baptism into Christ’s community, we enter into newness of life and are made one with the whole Kindom of God, where diversity in all its manifestations is valued and celebrated.
In the communion of the Holy Spirit, we are joined together in discipleship and in obedience to Christ, who calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves and to give of our gifts freely and with abundance.
To live out our faith as Jesus calls us to do, we as a church understand our call: to become a sanctuary of refuge for all who seek it; to feed those without; to expansively support love and its commitments fully, including same-sex, interfaith, and interracial marriages and expansive family planning. We covenant to be a community that values inquiry, dialogue, and understanding, recognizing that we all enter the journey with God at different points. As we collectively live out our faith, we affirm, love, and advocate for people of every race, economic status, nationality, housing status, age, ability, immigration status, gender identity or expression, marital status, and sexual orientation.
Like Jesus, we speak and act boldly against systems of oppression that keep God’s beloveds from being valued in their fullness. We recognize that each of us enters into our journey with God at different points, and thus we covenant to hold grace and growth tenderly and in equal measure as we move forward together.
We celebrate with thanksgiving the Table of the Lord, which is open to all as we receive the saving acts and presence of Christ.
Within the universal church, we receive the gifts of ministry and the still-speaking word of God through scripture. In the bonds of Christian faith, we yield ourselves to God so that we may serve the One whose Kindom has no end.
As the national church, we faithfully and prayerfully rejoice in the gift that it is to be loved by God without exception, and we commit ourselves to that same love for God and God’s people, here in our nation’s capital and around the world. Amen.
A Deeper Dive: Who We Are
Inspired by the Design of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the 2001 Mission Statement of National City Christian Church, and the faithful community of our church today.
Voted unanimously to accept by the Congregational Board January 14, 2025 and presented to the congregation at the Congregational Meeting January 26, 2025, where the congregation gave a vote of approval.
As members of National City Christian Church, the national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada, we confess that Jesus is the Christ, our living and active God, and proclaim Jesus the Christ, Lord and Savior of the world. In Christ’s name, limitless grace, and ever-expanding love, we accept our charge of faithful witness and service to all people. We rejoice in God, maker of heaven and earth and giver of free will and choice in all aspects of our lives, and we celebrate God’s people through a shared covenant of love.
Through baptism into Christ’s community, we enter into newness of life and are made one with the whole Kindom of God, where diversity in all its manifestations is valued and celebrated.
In the communion of the Holy Spirit, we are joined together in discipleship and in obedience to Christ, who calls us to love our neighbors as ourselves and to give of our gifts freely and with abundance.
To live out our faith as Jesus calls us to do, we as a church understand our call: to become a sanctuary of refuge for all who seek it; to feed those without; to expansively support love and its commitments fully, including same-sex, interfaith, and interracial marriages and expansive family planning. We covenant to be a community that values inquiry, dialogue, and understanding, recognizing that we all enter the journey with God at different points. As we collectively live out our faith, we affirm, love, and advocate for people of every race, economic status, nationality, housing status, age, ability, immigration status, gender identity or expression, marital status, and sexual orientation.
Like Jesus, we speak and act boldly against systems of oppression that keep God’s beloveds from being valued in their fullness. We recognize that each of us enters into our journey with God at different points, and thus we covenant to hold grace and growth tenderly and in equal measure as we move forward together.
We celebrate with thanksgiving the Table of the Lord, which is open to all as we receive the saving acts and presence of Christ.
Within the universal church, we receive the gifts of ministry and the still-speaking word of God through scripture. In the bonds of Christian faith, we yield ourselves to God so that we may serve the One whose Kindom has no end.
As the national church, we faithfully and prayerfully rejoice in the gift that it is to be loved by God without exception, and we commit ourselves to that same love for God and God’s people, here in our nation’s capital and around the world. Amen.
