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A Community Church is an inclusive, interdenominational congregation that grows out of the hopes, needs, and aspirations of the community. It is neither planted nor transplanted from the outside but a native product of the community. A Community Church serves and claims the whole community as its parish. It welcomes all who love Jesus Christ into its fellowship and membership, regardless of sect or denomination. A Community Church is self-governing and assumes responsibility for decisions and direction at the local level. In all of its life together a Community Church seeks to employ the wisdom that says, "In essentials, unity, in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity."