Baseline

At the end of it all being a Christian is about a journey of getting to know God through the resurrected Christ.

This ancient creed is what we as Christians and those before us have learned in this relationship with God. They serve the relationship. 

We have a relationship with truth, because, after all, truth is a Person. 

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Creed

We believe in one God the Father, the Almighty, creator of heaven and earth, and of all that is, seen and unseen. We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of one being, substance, with the Father. Through him all things were made. For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made truly human. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered death and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son. With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified; who spoke through the prophets.

In one holy universal and apostolic Church; we acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; we look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

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Story

At 3rdplace, story is a way we understand our faith, scripture and our mission. Our minds run in stories and our lives are filled with stories. We live within the beautiful story of South Africa and in this we each have our own story and when we walk together we reshape one another’s stories.

Jesus’ story and so the narrative of scripture changed us and keeps on changing us. It inspires us to continue God’s mission to draw the world to himself through Jesus and renew and remake and redeem all of creation.

His story incarnates into each of ours and reshapes us and remolds our culture. And so at our gatherings we create space to tell stories of healing, of hurt, of forgiveness, of death and of life.

Stories are the way we encourage everyone to gage their holistic health. What are the stories that are coming out of your life and out of 3rdplace? The more stories there are of people falling in love with Jesus and loving others the better.