This is where life happens:
at the crossroads between faith and doubt,
on the borders between "us" and "them".
It happens in the edges and the gray areas.
Real life includes gay and straight, mother and father, immigrant and citizen, believer and skeptic.
(And everything in between these binaries.)
It defies our fences and categories, our attempts to define who is out and who is in.
We believe Jesus's table is wide and welcoming:
that it includes the marginalized and downtrodden now, just as it did back then.
The religious leaders of Jesus's time were scandalized by the company he kept.
May they be scandalized by ours as well.
These songs are music for the inclusive church,
for the growing movement of Christians who are fleeing toxic misunderstandings of the good news,
and instead are trying to recapture Christ's counter-cultural message.
The empires of the world do not have the final say.
There is something new happening, something unexpected.
And all are welcome. All are loved.
at the crossroads between faith and doubt,
on the borders between "us" and "them".
It happens in the edges and the gray areas.
Real life includes gay and straight, mother and father, immigrant and citizen, believer and skeptic.
(And everything in between these binaries.)
It defies our fences and categories, our attempts to define who is out and who is in.
We believe Jesus's table is wide and welcoming:
that it includes the marginalized and downtrodden now, just as it did back then.
The religious leaders of Jesus's time were scandalized by the company he kept.
May they be scandalized by ours as well.
These songs are music for the inclusive church,
for the growing movement of Christians who are fleeing toxic misunderstandings of the good news,
and instead are trying to recapture Christ's counter-cultural message.
The empires of the world do not have the final say.
There is something new happening, something unexpected.
And all are welcome. All are loved.
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Map & Compass consists of Jackie and Matt LeFevers, a wife-and-husband duo from Phoenix. They have been leading worship weekly since 2008, and currently serve at The Well, a progressive Christian church in Gilbert, Arizona.
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We believe that worship has many sides and many stories,
and that God can be reached in more ways than one.
and that God can be reached in more ways than one.