liberti is . . .

. . . A Latin word referring to the freed slaves in the Roman Empire.

. . . Spiritual freedom. Spiritual bondage is living for mere things and for yourself. Jesus Christ frees us to know and love God, even as we are first loved and known by God. True liberti is found in Jesus. Selfishness and sin alienate people from God and one another. Jesus Christ's work of dying in our place and rising from the dead liberates us to live a life of worship of Christ and a life of love for other people. 

. . . A church that believes that Jesus Christ is the perfect expression of God’s redeeming love and the only source of meaning, purpose, and joy. We invite you to join us as we seek to know freedom in Jesus and express his love in our city.  We desire to be a place for the skeptical, agnostic, and the curious to pursue their questions, as well as to nurture and develop those who already call Christ their own.

We are part of the historical movement that Jesus Christ started — the counter-culture known as the church. We believe that the church of Jesus Christ has continuity and roots in all God’s promises and actions written in the official record of God’s story, the Bible. We believe that God continues to invite people to join their story with his story by becoming followers of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The church is continually renewed and created by God in history and is called to be a worshiping, nurturing, and serving community. We seek to live out these high ideals humbly and with great dependence on the God who is real and active today. As we pray, worship, and live together, we seek to be followers of Jesus Christ in fresh ways in this time and place.

We are a church that loves the city of Philadelphia and desires to serve the city in humility.