PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY WE AFFIRM AS A CONGREGATION THE TENETS OF THE CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY. THEY ARE AS FOLLOWS: PARKVIEW'S PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY COVENANT Then Peter began to speak to them: "I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable." Acts 10:34-35 We believe that faith is a living relationship, and that life is a journey. Furthermore, we believe that doctrines, creeds and catechisms are created by human beings in faithful response to God's activity. These human declarations may, from time to time, need to be revised in response to God's continuing revelation and our continuing faithful discipleship. Scripture proclaims that all people are created in the image of God, who declares us all to be good. Because God is greater than our ability to comprehend, we believe that only God can judge the acceptability of a religion, and it is not appropriate for us to attempt to make other people conform to ours. Therefore, we, the members of Parkview Church, affirm these Eight Points of Progressive Christianity: 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 people. 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 no 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. Return to Who We Are... Return to Parkview homepage