Our Tradition

Christ Church is an Episcopal congregation. The shape of our Sunday services, and often the words that we pray, form a common pattern of prayer that is shared across the Episcopal Church and throughout the Anglican Communion, which is also bonded by continued willingness to follow Christ together. The words of our prayers are rooted in Scripture, and we read Scripture together as part of our Sunday worship. In the beauty of our prayers, from the newest to those that date back to the early church, we seek to root ourselves in prayers that become a part of us, even as our worship reflects the changing patterns of the church year. We are people of the book, finding that Scripture contains everything that is necessary for salvation, drawing many of our prayers from the Book of Common Prayer, and recognizing that our prayers shape our beliefs.

Our denomination comes from and continues to work with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church. Today, we are one of the 42 national, pan-national, and regional churches that make up the Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church names our mission as restoring all people to unity with God and each other in Christ, which calls us to work with followers of Christ across denominational lines and beyond the borders of our denomination, our buildings, and those who already know themselves to be followers of Christ.

We are a Trinitarian church, recognizing that God is at once best revealed in the incarnate Jesus Christ and that we can best learn about and from God when we consider the totality of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Because God took on human flesh to show God’s self to us, born of God’s great love and desire to be among creation, we recognize the value of our own bodies, and we bring our whole selves to worship, stewardship, and service.