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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. |