McKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation
Eight Points of Progressive Christianity
In September 2000, the Session of McKinley Church voted to become officially affiliated with The Center for Progressive Christianity. This action was taken to articulate some of our central beliefs and explain how they are translated into daily actions.
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who:
- proclaim
Jesus Christ as our Gate to the realm of God;
- recognize
the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the
gateway to God's realm;
- understand
our sharing of bread and wine in Jesus's name to be a representation
of God's feast for all peoples;
- invite all
sorts and conditions of people to join in our worship and in our
common life as full partners, including (but not limited to):
- believers and agnostics,
- conventional Christians and questioning skeptics,
- homosexuals and heterosexuals,
- females and males,
- the despairing and the hopeful,
- those of all races and cultures,
- and
those of all classes and abilities,
... without imposing on them the necessity of becoming like us;
- think that
the way we treat one another and other people is more important
than the way we express our beliefs;
- find more
grace in the search for meaning than in absolute certainty, in
the questions than in the answers;
- see ourselves
as a spiritual community in which we discover the resources required
for our work in the world: striving for justice and peace among
all people, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least
of his sisters and brothers;
- recognize
that our faith entails costly discipleship, renunciation of privilege,
and conscientious resistance to evil--as has always been the tradition
of the church.