mission

i am supposed to be at a wedding.  american weddings overwhelm me.  so far, haitian ones do too.  jeremy and i came back to the house to wait it out for a while.  i am listening to iron and wine and reading from the alternative seminary website.  i like this:

[ we are Christians who believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord. we believe that Jesus proclaims and inaugurates the reign of God. we believe that the Gospel of Jesus embodies God's will for our world. we believe that our lives are to be committed to radical Christian discipleship.

we believe that the Church -- those who profess Jesus as Lord --is in its authentic form "ecclesia," "called out," a body distinct from culture and called to a mission of reconciliation, concern for the poor, and new understandings of power, justice, and community. we are concerned that the Church in this culture desperately needs to be revitalized. the institutional church has been largely co-opted by the values of this culture and has failed to be a radical presence true to the biblical spirit. we desire in some way, guided by the Holy Spirit, to revitalize the Church. ]