Our vision for a church plant in Boston coincides with the vision of the Evangelical Covenant Church. We want to cultivate a community of worship "committed to: prayer, preaching, and study of the word; the celebration of the sacraments; and fellowship across gender, race, age, culture, and class." We want to be the church of Jesus Christ; "to equip loving, giving, growing Christians to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ – evangelizing the lost, ministering to those in need, and seeking justice for the oppressed."

"We are united by Christ in a holy covenant of churches empowered by the Holy Spirit to obey the great commandments and the great commission: to love God with all our heart, soul, strength, and mind, to love our neighbors as ourselves, and to go into all the world and make disciples."

In particular, we want to be people formed by the cross: a cruciform community. This means taking seriously the teachings and life of Jesus (particularly his Sermon on the Mount and his ministry among society's outcasts) and living in obedience to our Lord. We want to be formed by our life together as fellow sojourners, a colony of heaven, resident aliens, an alternative social structure in this world. This means rejecting the political systems of this world, including their reliance upon violence, and the idolatry of money. We want to be witnesses now of God's new life in the Spirit, that hopes for the new city where God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.