First Congo
Address:
1000 S Cooper St.
Memphis
, TN
, 38104
Phone:
(901) 278-6786
35° 7' 7.2084" N, 89° 59' 26.556" W
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We’re part of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a denomination of about 6,000 churches across the country, tracing our roots back to the Pilgrims who believed so strongly in living our faith in the world. One of the great strengths of First Congregational is that God has invited us, through the years, to move into a deep experience of community life. Many of us are people who felt "outside the lines" of traditional Christianity. Some of us felt like doctrinal Christianity left us empty when it came to finding meaning in life. Others of us were abandoned by our congregations when we started being honest about being gay or lesbian.
We come to First Congregational because we want a church which moves more quickly to welcome than to exclude, a church where the formulas for living are wide enough to include the whole of humanity. We believe that God loves us for who we are--not because we can repeat the right doctrines or force our lives into a particular cookie-cutter mold. We see in the Biblical accounts of the life of Jesus that God was able to love even beyond the boundaries of particular religious histories and traditions. We believe that we're called to love and to form community in the same way.
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