Our Vision: A True Neighborhood
Our Mission: To build a gospel community that is intentionally “spiritually diverse,” cross-cultural, and
neighborhood-centered for the good of our neighbors and the glory of Jesus Christ in Columbia Heights, Mount
Pleasant, Adams Morgan, and beyond.
1) What’s hardest for you about building a “cross-cultural community”?
2) What’s one thing in this passage that (a) challenges you, (b) encourages you, in the effort to grow as a cross-cultural church family?
Unity is not uniformity, nor is it sameness. Just as the Godhead is made up of three distinct Persons — the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit — each unique in personhood and yet at the same time one in essence, unity reflects a oneness that does not negate individuality. God’s creative variety is replete displaying itself through a humanity crafted in different shapes, colors, and style. Unity occurs when we combine our unique differences together as we head toward a common goal. It is the sense that the thing that we are gathered for and moving toward is bigger than our own individual preferences.
Tony Evans, Oneness Embraced
Multiracial congregations can play an important role in reducing racial division and inequality and that this should be a goal of Christian people. We need to move beyond simply stating that Christian worship is the most segregated hour in the United States.
Curtiss Paul DeYoung et al, United by Faith
Unity in diversity is more beautiful and more powerful than the unity of uniformity. This carries over to the untold differences that exist between the peoples of the world. When their diversity unites in worship to God, the beauty of their praise will echo the depth and greatness of God’s beauty far more than if the redeemed were from only a few different people groups.
John Piper, Let the Nations Be Glad