THE DIOCESE OF CHRIST THE REFORMER (CEEC) ENVISIONS A DIOCESE WHOSE LIFE, MINISTRY, AND PARISHES ARE FILLED BY SCRIPTURE, SPIRIT, AND SACRAMENT.

WE ARE SCRIPTURE

We hold to the truth that the Holy Scriptures are the authoritative Kingdom documents and words of the Covenant, and therefore the Word of God. The Scriptures are inspired and contain all things necessary for salvation and godly living. The Diocese commends the faithful reading, study, and teaching and preaching of the Word of God. The Diocese also embraces the evangelical insistence on a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, a holy life, and a commitment to evangelism and mission.

WE ARE SPIRIT

 The Diocese believes in receiving Christ’s mandate to be “clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). Spiritual gifts are normative in life, worship, and ministry. The presence, power, and working of the Holy Spirit are anticipated in worship, daily acts of service, and in personal relationship with the Savior.

WE ARE SACRAMENT

Therefore, this communion retains the historic creeds, episcopacy, and the three-fold nature of ordained ministry. As a Convergence communion, the Diocese embraces the Anglican precedent and seeks to be a true expression of the Ancient/Future Church, making visible the Kingdom of God, fulfilling the Great Commission, and manifesting fully the beauty, glory and power of the One Church and its Lord.

WE EMBRACE DIVERSITY

Diversity is divine. It is division that is diabolic.

-Bishop Tony Palmer

The Church is universal, comprised of “a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language” (Rev. 7:9). In its essence, the Church is unitary, “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone” (Eph. 2:20), holding to catholic (universal) and apostolic faith and order. However, in its expression the Church is varied and multiform, depending on place, time, nationality and culture. A church in Pakistan may have distinctions and traditions quite different from a church in England. Yet, both are in essence equally authentic and catholic if they are faithful to the pattern of faith and order.

The diocese is committed to discipling the nations, not exporting a Western expression of the Church. Each congregation that is affiliated is Africa are encouraged to be authentically who they are in language and practice so that the Church of God worldwide may reflect the Glory of God with the myriad beauty and variety of all the peoples of the earth.

Furthermore, the Diocese of Christ the Reformer is committed to local church diversity of expression, with communities that seem to favor one stream more than the others to stay true to their local context. As such, the member churches maintain their autonomy of expression and liturgy.