What is the Orthodox Church?

The Orthodox Church is the community - or rather, the living body - of the Messiah, embracing, proclaiming, and living in line with the Good News announced by Jesus and His Apostles, fulfilled according to the Scriptures.

What is the Good News?

This Good News is that a first-century rabbi named Jesus of Nazareth, the embodiment of the God of Israel, has arrived. Through His earthly ministry of preaching and healing, He has shown Himself to be the rightful King of Israel. In a cosmic battle, He defeated Sin, Death, and Demons through His execution on a cross, His descent into and destruction of the realm of death, His glorious bodily Resurrection, and His ascension to be enthroned at the right hand of the Father. Jesus has inherited the entire universe as His rightful dominion, inviting all people to offer their believing loyalty to Him, thereby fulfilling their purpose as unique microcosms of the redemption of the entire universe.

What is Holy Tradition?

The Holy Tradition of the Orthodox Christian Church is nothing more and nothing less than the embodied announcement of the Good News of the Kingdom of God, as taught by our Lord Jesus Christ and His Holy Apostles, faithfully lived out and maintained by every generation, and handed down by His Church even to our very day. Holy Tradition is constantly renewed by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, "everywhere present and filling all things."

What’s the best way to learn more?

While there are now many good books, articles, and blogs that a person might read about Orthodoxy, and some valuable places online to find answers to your questions about the faith, the best way is simply to “come and see.” The Orthodox faith encompasses all of life, drawing every aspect of creation into Christ’s healing, redemption, and blessing.