What makes St. Nicholas Church unique among new plant congregations?
We believe that the only sufficient basis for Christian community is the love of Christ (not our love for Christ, but Christ’s love for us). For us, all other considerations are secondary. This has allowed St. Nicholas to be evangelical without being socially conservative, Biblically grounded without being fundamentalist, steadily growing without sacrificing spiritual depth, theologically diverse without schism, genuinely “seeker friendly” without being “church lite.” For example, in the recent controversies over human sexuality, many new plant congregations around the country withheld funding from their dioceses or even attempted to secede from them. And even in our own diocese some established parishes lost membership. Yet St. Nicholas Church has suffered no loss of membership, continued its steady growth, and continued to support its Diocese.
