AN INVITATION

We invite you to consider the claim of Jesus Christ upon your life.  If Christianity is true, it is the most important thing in the world - not something about which you can be neutral.  As C.S. Lewis said, “You must make your choice.  Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman, or something worse.”  We believe that Jesus is who he said he was.  We believe the witness of the Bible and the Saints through the ages to be credible.  Ultimately, however, Christianity can only be known by experience.  Christians do not simply assent to certain truths - they live in a relationship with Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Your life can have meaning, joy, and love beyond measure, if you take Jesus as your Lord.  You must acknowledge that you are a sinner and separated from God; then make an act of faith that Jesus paid the penalty for your sins by His death on the Cross and made it possible for you to be restored to friendship and love with God.  You must be sorry for your sins because they have offended God and you must choose to love Him above all else, resolving to change your life through His grace.  You must be baptized, if you have not already been so, and live as part of the mystical body of Jesus, The Church.  Do this and you will begin a new life of love now.  If you are not a Christian, we invite you to choose Christ today.  If you have fallen away, we urge you toward renewal of faith and repentance.  Whether you have just chosen Christ or were already a Christian, we invite you to experience the fullness of faith at St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church.  You are warmly invited to attend our services.

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WHAT WE STAND FOR

We are evangelical Christians -

We teach the necessity and the joy of having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  We believe that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and we uphold the eternal character of biblical truth and morality.

We are catholic Christians -

We accept the historic Creeds and the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the undivided Christian church.  We celebrate the Seven Sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist, Confirmation, Penance, Unction, Matrimony, and Holy Orders.  We maintain the historic succession of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons from Jesus’ Apostles.

We are Anglican Christians -

We believe that the faith of the Apostles is manifested in the traditional theology and spirituality of the Church of England and its 1662 Book of Common Prayer.  We use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer because it is the most recent American Prayer Book to maintain the Common Prayer tradition.

St. Michael the Archangel Anglican Church stands for historic Christianity, expressed in Holy Scriptures, in the Creeds, and in the best of Episcopalian and Anglican tradition.  We experience and express our beliefs through timeless worship, profoundly respectful toward, as well as intimately involved with, our Almighty God.  His essential message to each of us for our personal redemption through Jesus Christ has not changed and will never change.

As Christ called His Church to be both salt and light to this fallen world, we believe that decisive action to correct political, economic, and environmental ills is a vital duty for all believing Christians.  Such action, however, should never become a substitute for a relationship of faith in the mystery of the incarnate and transcendent Christ Jesus, our only means of redemption.  The duty of the Church is to believe, understand, and teach Christ’s revelation to the contemporary world.  We stand firmly on these things in order to contend for “that faith once delivered to the Saints” (Jude 3).

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