Chrysalis
Last week we watched a short film as a community, and discussed the beauty of being set free and restored to our intended path.
The Butterfly Circus, is a wonderful film...enjoy it.
Our Values
We seek to gather family here in Charlottesville. At a pace that results in peace and health.
We relate deeply with the ancient Irish Church. Though our style does not include the traditions or liturgy of the Irish, or any other, the values of the Irish are close to our own.
Values like:
Love - the center of all that we believe
Heroic hospitality - to draw out and extend our souls to another, along with meeting physical needs, as a community.
Pilgrimage - followers of Christ are just that, He is our Lord, so, we seek to respect the conscience of each person, if the Lord is moving someone, as a community we should bless them. Pilgrimage is a lifelong following of the Holy Spirit. Check out: Ps84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, Whose heart is set on pilgrimage. (read on, it's a beautiful chapter)
Facilitation of Life - creating a safe place where all of us can grow healthy and become whole.
Spiritual community - a one on one friendship is our primary relationship ideally (this was known to the ancient Irish as the Anam Cara relationship) -
Our secondary relationship would be something like a home group, or a smaller gathering of some kind -
The larger, corporate gathering would be considered our tertiary spiritual community, one that offers sanctuary for time with God and each other.
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