We meet together to share the love of God, and then go out to present it to the world.
We are a community of Christians, seeking to follow Jesus with genuine faith and authentic love. Our Anglican expression of Christianity maintains a tradition of the "via media" or the middle way. Thus, our service includes the proclamation of the Word of God, as well as the celebration of Holy Communion.
Our worship together is based on the Book of Common Prayer, and the service is completely printed out in a service booklet, which is available at the church entrance and handed out by our ushers each Sunday. Thus, members and visitors together may all easily participate in a time of being in God's presence, presenting ourselves to Him and receiving from His grace in our lives.
Our Vision
To be a vibrant church family that honors and glorifies God. A place of healing, serving, and growing together in Christ.
The Anglican Way
(from Anglican Church in North America)
We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. Therefore, the Anglican Church in North America identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the Anglican Way, and essential for membership:
"The Anglican Communion," Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher wrote, "has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own. It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and maintained in the Catholic and Apostolic constitution of Christ's Church from the beginning." It may licitly teach as necessary for salvation nothing but what is read in the Holy Scriptures as God's Word written or may be proved thereby. It therefore embraces and affirms such teachings of the ancient Fathers and Councils of the Church as are agreeable to the Scriptures, and thus to be counted apostolic. The Church has no authority to innovate: it is obliged continually, and particularly in times of renewal or reformation, to return to "the faith once delivered to the saints."
To be an Anglican, then, is not to embrace a distinct version of Christianity, but a distinct way of being a "Mere Christian," at the same time evangelical, apostolic, catholic, reformed, and Spirit-filled.
Learn more:
Guiding Principles of Christian Worship | Baptism and Regeneration | The Three Blessed Oils | The Jerusalem Declaration from GAFCON
Our worship together is based on the Book of Common Prayer, and the service is completely printed out in a service booklet, which is available at the church entrance and handed out by our ushers each Sunday. Thus, members and visitors together may all easily participate in a time of being in God's presence, presenting ourselves to Him and receiving from His grace in our lives.
Our Vision
To be a vibrant church family that honors and glorifies God. A place of healing, serving, and growing together in Christ.
The Anglican Way
(from Anglican Church in North America)
We believe and confess Jesus Christ to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no one comes to the Father but by Him. Therefore, the Anglican Church in North America identifies the following seven elements as characteristic of the Anglican Way, and essential for membership:
- We confess the canonical books of the Old and New Testaments to be the inspired Word of God, containing all things necessary for salvation, and to be the final authority and unchangeable standard for Christian faith and life.
- We confess Baptism and the Supper of the Lord to be Sacraments ordained by Christ Himself in the Gospel, and thus to be ministered with unfailing use of His words of institution and of the elements ordained by Him.
- We confess the godly historic Episcopate as an inherent part of the apostolic faith and practice, and therefore as integral to the fullness and unity of the Body of Christ.
- We confess as proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian.
- Concerning the seven Councils of the undivided Church, we affirm the teaching of the first four Councils and the Christological clarifications of the fifth, sixth and seventh Councils, in so far as they are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures.
- We receive The Book of Common Prayer as set forth by the Church of England in 1662, together with the Ordinal attached to the same, as a standard for Anglican doctrine and discipline, and, with the Books which preceded it, as the standard for the Anglican tradition of worship.
- We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing the fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.
"The Anglican Communion," Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher wrote, "has no peculiar thought, practice, creed or confession of its own. It has only the Catholic Faith of the ancient Catholic Church, as preserved in the Catholic Creeds and maintained in the Catholic and Apostolic constitution of Christ's Church from the beginning." It may licitly teach as necessary for salvation nothing but what is read in the Holy Scriptures as God's Word written or may be proved thereby. It therefore embraces and affirms such teachings of the ancient Fathers and Councils of the Church as are agreeable to the Scriptures, and thus to be counted apostolic. The Church has no authority to innovate: it is obliged continually, and particularly in times of renewal or reformation, to return to "the faith once delivered to the saints."
To be an Anglican, then, is not to embrace a distinct version of Christianity, but a distinct way of being a "Mere Christian," at the same time evangelical, apostolic, catholic, reformed, and Spirit-filled.
Learn more:
Guiding Principles of Christian Worship | Baptism and Regeneration | The Three Blessed Oils | The Jerusalem Declaration from GAFCON
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Ascension Anglican is a church within the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin where the Rt. Rev. Dr. Eric Menees presides as Bishop.
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