We serve the Church and the world in three ways: as Hosts, Ambassadors and Voluntary Exiles.
Serve the Church and the World
The transformation of individuals, society and creation from glory to glory joyfully compels us to serve the Church and the world with a courageous, persevering and tenacious resolve to form communities that shine like the sun as colonies of heaven on earth.
We serve the Church and the world in three ways.
- As Hosts who offer hospitality to all already within and to those yet beyond the Church.
- As Ambassadors who advance the Kingdom through our vocational callings.
- As Voluntary Exiles who travel to the edges of established expressions of Christendom.
We follow Christ as our lead Host (priest), Ambassador (prophet) and Voluntary Exile (king). Christ is both our model and the source of our empowerment in these practices of serving.
Offer Hospitality to All
Basileians serve the Church and the world as Hosts in our priestly practice of offering hospitality to all who belong to Basileia, to the whole of the Church and to those beyond the Church.
As Hosts, we demolish strongholds of 1) denominationalism in the Church by being a community of bridge-builders, 2) false dichotomies in faith and life by equipping others in the kingdomcultural alternative and 3) gnostic practices in all forms of governance that divide rather than unite in Christ all things in heaven and on earth.
The hospitality we provide by serving all as Hosts creates the relational context in which we fulfill our calling as Ambassadors.
Advance the Kingdom Through Our Vocational Callings
Basileians serve the Church and the world as Ambassadors in our prophetic practice of advancing kingdomcultural Christendom as a shinning City on a hill through our respective vocations.
As Ambassadors, we regard the vocation given to individuals and collectives as effectively a divine call to represent Christ in that area of thought and life. Therefore, our Fellowships mobilize and commission Ambassadors for each vocational area of life through the Chapters of our various Vocational Societies. Basileians in general and the members of these Chapters in particular are commissioned to destroy evil and restore all things ruined by evil in the apostolic mission of bringing every area of thought and life into alignment with the crown rights of King Jesus.
As Ambassadors we respond to the call to travel to the edges of established expressions of Christendom.
Travel to the Edges of Established Expressions of Christendom
Basileians serve the Church and the world as Voluntary Exiles in our kingly practice of traveling to the edges of established expressions of Christendom.
As Voluntary Exiles, we heavenize earth in the name of Christus Victor, advancing the Kingdom in fresh and innovative ways that no one has done before. Just as Jesus went into the desert as a Voluntary Exile to track down evil and crush it, and just as the Desert Fathers left the comforts of Byzantium both to preserve and advance the faith, and just as the Celtic saints who lived on the edges of the civilized world were thereby perfectly positioned to save civilization, so we gravitate to the edges. From the edges we are perfectly positioned to go in two directions. First, we’re positioned to “go East” to the center of Christendom where the faith has already been established in order to both share and receive treasures new and old. Second, we’re also positioned to “go West” in order to expand the Empire of God in places and in ways few if any have yet dared to imagine.
Our Basileian way of being Hosts and Ambassadors is to go to the edges as Voluntary Exiles.
