This is Who We Are
Founded in San Francisco in 2013, We Are Church is a family of simple churches pursuing the New Testament vision of church. Six convictions shape how we follow Jesus together.
Worship is the air we breathe. We pursue Jesus with hearts that are first awake to His worth, gathering in homes to encounter Him in scripture, prayer, song, and the breaking of bread.
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The church is family before it is anything else. We share meals, raise children together, bear one another's burdens, and treat the people God has placed beside us as kin worth our lives.
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Everyone is called to make disciples. We are all called to share the gospel with non-believers in hopes that they would follow Jesus. We are all called to take responsibility for the spiritual care of other believers.
Watch the teachingThey devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
We are sent. Empowered by the Spirit, we live on mission where God has placed us, going to neighbors, coworkers, and strangers with the hope of Christ and the boldness to declare Him.
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This world is not our home. We follow a crucified King, and we expect that following Him will cost us. We hold loosely to comfort, count it joy to share in His sufferings, and fix our eyes on the kingdom that is to come.
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Jesus moves toward the forgotten. We do the same. We share our homes, our tables, and our resources with the poor among us, planting churches where the need is greatest and refusing to look past anyone made in God's image.
Watch the teachingThis is How We Walk
We keep it simple and reproducible. The practices below describe how we walk with Jesus together, equip every believer, and multiply healthy churches, trusting the Spirit to do what only He can do.
We Are Church is structured so everyone spends daily time with God in scripture and prayer. Rather than relying on Sunday sermons to be “fed,” our church follows a shared reading plan that shapes how we grow and what we talk about when we gather.
Our churches meet in homes, around tables, in groups small enough that no one is anonymous. The gathering is unhurried, scripture-centered, and shaped by everyone present. There is no stage and no audience.
Everyone is called to make disciples. We share the gospel with those who don't yet know Jesus, and we take responsibility for the spiritual care of those who do. Discipleship is hard and messy. It involves intentionally getting to know someone, having hard conversations when sin is evident, and spending extra time with them when life gets hard.
The Spirit gives gifts to every believer for the building up of the body. Our gatherings are designed so that every person has space to teach, pray, lead, serve, and use whatever the Spirit has put in their hands.
A healthy church multiplies. We train leaders from within, send teams out when groups grow large, and measure success by the number of new disciples and new churches, not the size of any single gathering.
What We Believe
Our Covenant is a clear statement of shared faith and shared life. When you join, you affirm the gospel we confess and the practices we commit to as a family of simple churches.
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