All Souls Church of Boulder, CO  “The boy didn’t need another moralistic sermon. There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.”
- Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

About

Our Purpose Is

All Souls Church of Boulder exists to share the message of Jesus in the hope of seeing people reconciled to God and one another.

Our Values Are

truth

We believe truth is accessible and is something for which all people yearn. We long to know if there is a God and if so, how we can know him in a personal way. In a world where many believe truth is relative, we believe God is true and has revealed himself in his word and in his son, Jesus. The desire of All Souls Church of Boulder is to develop a community which welcomes all to come and explore the claims of Jesus and discover who he is.

authenticity

All people long for authenticity. We want other people to be authentic with us and at our core we want to be authentic with others. In other words, we want to know and be known. It is in Jesus that we find the real freedom to do this. In the Gospel (the good news of Jesus) we realize how much we have been loved and accepted by God, and we are then free to be authentic with him. When we have an authentic relationship with God, through Jesus, we find the freedom to be authentic with each other.

worship

We are created to worship. Look around and you can see that we will worship anything. However, we are made to worship God. The desire we have is to be a community who worships God and welcomes the people of Boulder to worship him with us. However, worship is not something that should occur only on Sunday. We believe that all of life is to be lived as an act of worship to God.

community

As a people who are in community with God, we desire to build community with each other through meaningful relationships. It is in a community fueled by grace that we can best face life, sharing in each other's joys and sorrows. We will not be a club or closed community. Rather, we will be a community who welcomes everyone to join us on this journey of faith. However, you do not have to believe as we do to belong in our community and be our friend.

beauty

We have a beautiful world in which to live, work, and play. However, in a world which is well acquainted with sadness, fear, loneliness, and hatred, it is at times hard to find or recognize beauty. But by the grace of God, our eyes are opened to see beauty and the potential for it in places of significant brokenness, pain, and suffering. We want to be a community which celebrates beauty and longs for it where it "seems" to not exist.

mercy

When we experience the mercy of God it should move us to show mercy to others. Boulder is blessed with wealth, but there are those who live in and around Boulder who are struggling, for various reasons, who need a hand. We desire to be a community which is sensitive to the needs of people, both spiritual and physical. We want to be a community who is rich in mercy, expressed not only in words, but in deeds.