A community committed to worship, service, and transformation through Jesus Christ

Fr. Steve Benner, Rector Office: 812-282-1108
Fax: 812-288-2101
 
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:30 - 2:30 


Who We Are

We are first and foremost a community of disciples of Jesus Christ.

We are members of The Episcopal Church, sharing a common tradition with the other churches of the Anglican Communion. As Anglicans, we are rooted in rich spiritual, liturgical and theological soil and we worship in a rich, biblically-based traditon as found in The Book of Common Prayer.

Our rector is Father Steve Benner and our bishop is Bishop Cate Waynick of the Diocese of Indianapolis. You will find that St. Paul's, like most of the Episcopal Church, is a welcoming, intimate community where you will know your fellow pilgrims on the Way. We also believe that God’s love is too generous to limit and welcome all sorts and conditions to be with us.

We are a Eucharistic community, shaped by the experience of being fed by the Body and Blood of Christ as we gather around his table each week for Communion.

We are a baptismal community, shaped by the covenant we make as individuals and as a body when we were marked as Christ's own for ever in baptism. Each of us is called through baptism to minister in the name of Jesus and it is a lifelong journey discovering the nature of that call.

We are a biblical community, in which scripture is read, studied, prayed, and digested. It shapes all aspects of our common life.

We are also a rational community, a zone in which truth is sought and heard, and in which dissent and dialogue are embraced as part of the process of discernment.

Finally, we are a traditional community. We are rooted in the same soil that nurtured C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot, John Donne and George Herbert, Dorothy Sayers and Madeleine L’Engle and Desmond Tutu and countless others. Theologians and poets, musicians and novelists, reformers and rebels… We are all linked through a tradition of breadth and depth and search and even the occasional controversy.1

And as our Charter for Lifelong Christian Formation begins "We are committed to growth in the knowledge, service, and love of God as followers of Christ and are informed by scripture, tradition, and reason." That pretty much sums up our life as Christians. Check us out.

Some Glimpses of Who We Are from Our Celebration of New Ministry, June 27








 1borrowed from the website of saint benedict's table, but one of the best statements of Anglican identity around