What is The CCI?
As a communion of churches, we seek to obey the Great Commandment and fulfill the Great Commission through the convergence of Scripture, Spirit, Sacrament and Service.
We come together with a clear vision, a common mission and sharing the faith in Christ Jesus as we have received it through the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Council of Chalcedon.
Our communion seeks to reflect the unanimity and singularity of the apostolic and patristic Church by encompassing the great conciliar centuries of the first five hundred years, the Celtic Christian movement (fifth to ninth centuries), the early Protestant Reformation, and eighteenth century Methodism in the British Isles. We embrace a multiplicity of historically proven expressions of worship and practice. In contrast to a denomination, a communion expresses the organic unity Jesus Christ originally established in His Body, the Church. Rather than emerging from divisions created by historic differences over doctrine and practice, a communion represents a return to unity based on a recovery of the essential oneness of the Church of ancient, medieval, and contemporary times.
We seek to grow deeper in our commitment to Christ, to one another and to His mission in the world through a life centered in historic worship, apostolic teaching, biblical preaching, and charismatic gifts.
This is who we are, and why we are here today…rooted in eternity, at work in history!
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