Vision

The Book of Common Prayer says that the mission of the church is “to restore all people to unity with God and with each other in Christ.”  

Following from this statement are some key understandings that are significant for us at St. John’s:

• We are oriented toward wholeness: our basic problem is not that we are sinful, selfish, or disobedient.  It is that we are separate and incomplete.

• The healing restoration we seek is not individual but communal and universal.

• Union with God is not a special privilege of extraordinarily-gifted people: it is our destiny no matter who we are.

• The spiritual energy of love that brings this within reach has been revealed and entrusted to us in Jesus Christ.

• Following Jesus, we practice this Way of love in the place where we are, as the people we are, with the others God has called to life with us.

• Because its goal is wholeness, this mission is not confined to a specialized sphere called “religion.”  It is incarnated in human life in all its dimensions.

• The institutional structures and assets of the church are for the service of the mission, and not the other way around.