Who Are We?

Community of The Way
Teaching & Living From Genesis To Revelation

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Who Are We?

Community Of The Way is a Torah Observant, Messiah Centered Fellowship

We are Torah Observant because we love God and were created for good works.

We are Messiah Centered because without the Messiah nothing we believe or do matters.

To understand what we mean by Torah Observant and to see our full Mission, Vision and Organizational PowerPoint Document Click HERE

Mission Statement:

Proclaiming the Messiah and His Way of Life
Through Family Centered Fellowship, Worship, Discipleship, and Evangelism.

Vision Statment:

Our Vision is to train up disciples of the Master who are zealous for good works (mitzvot) and who take seriously the Great Commission. Therefore, they not only work toward having a spiritually disciplined life through personal study and applications of God's commandments, but they eagerly look for opportunities to share the Good News with others whom Yahweh brings into their life.

Core Values:

Obedience
Prayer
Preaching and Teaching
Worship
Fellowship
Evangelism

Below is a list of our Confessions of Faith; however, please note—we believe that real, biblical faith is marked by one’s actions (James 2:17) more than by doctrinal statements. A life touched by grace and faith results in the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23), a transformed mind (Romans 12:1–2), and obedience to God’s Word (John 14:15, 1 John 2:3–6).

Foundation of our Faith:
We believe in one God, as He has revealed Himself in the Scriptures. “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” (Deuteronomy 6:4)

We believe that Yeshua is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Eternal One in Whom all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form, and who is the Word who became flesh and dwelt among us, and whose glory we beheld, the glory of the only begotten Son of God, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1–14; Colossians 2:9)

We believe that the Spirit of God comforts, teaches, leads, indwells and empowers all whom God regenerates. (Acts 9:31; 1 John 2:27; John 16:13; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Timothy 1:7)

We believe that the Bible, both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament), are the only inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God. (2 Timothy 3:16–17)

We believe that all have sinned and have fallen short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23)

We believe Yeshua’s death and resurrection accomplished the atonement for all who place their faith in Him. Whoever trusts in God, in His work alone, is made a new creation in Yeshua, indwelt by the Spirit of God, and is transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His own Son. (Ephesians 2:8–9, Romans 5, 6)

We believe salvation is by faith through the grace of God alone, and not by human efforts. One may not earn, merit or keep this eternal salvation by his own efforts. A new creation is the work of God alone. (Ephesians 2:8–10; Romans 8:29–39)

We believe in the spiritual unity and equality of all believers in Yeshua the Messiah. (Ephesians 2:11–22)

We believe in the continuity of God’s covenants with the decendants of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob, the physical people or native born of Israel (Jeremiah 31:35–36 and parallel passages). Part of the fulfillment of these covenants is the physical return of the Jewish people (i.e. those of the tribe of Judah) and their brothers from all the tribes of Israel to the Promised Land. (Deuteronomy 30)

We believe that all non-Jewish people (i.e. Gentiles) who trust in Yeshua are grafted into Israel through faith in Messiah. While this does not make them "Jewish," they become full and equal participants in the covenants of promise complete with all the rights and responsibilities covenant membership entails. (Ephesians 2:12; Romans 11:11–24; Jeremiah 31:33; Num 15:14-16)

We believe that the Torah is a revelation of the righteousness of God and a description, along with the rest of Scripture, of the lifestyle God intended for His redeemed community (both for the Jew and the Gentile who joins Israel through faith in her Messiah). (Matthew 5:17–19; 2 Timothy 3:16–17; James 1:25, 2:12) The Torah itself defines sin (1 John 3:4); therefore, to violate the Torah of God/Yeshua is to walk in sin, while keeping the commandments of Yahweh is to walk in love and express our love for Yeshua and the Father.

We believe in the literal, physical return of Messiah to rule and reign upon the throne of David in Jerusalem. (Zechariah 14; Revelation 19–20)