About us


People often ask us who we are, expect­ing to hear the name of a par­tic­u­lar Chris­ti­an group or reli­gious organization.

How­ever, we are not an organ­iz­a­tion, so we can­not intro­duce ourselves with a par­tic­u­lar name. Jesus’ dis­ciples did not give them­selves any name either, but were recog­nized as such through their mes­sage and their lives. Later the dis­ciples were called Chris­ti­ans (Acts 11:26) because they con­fessed and fol­lowed Jesus as the Christ, the Saviour who came to man­kind from God.

In the same way we too are Chris­ti­ans, dis­ciples of Jesus. Fol­low­ing the example of the first Chris­ti­ans, we want to put what we read in the Bible into prac­tice in our lives. We do not belong to any denom­in­a­tion or any oth­er kind of reli­gious soci­ety. We are togeth­er because each of us wants to fol­low Jesus, our Lord and our God (John 20:28).

We regard the Bible as the sole basis of Chris­ti­an doc­trine. We meet every day to think togeth­er about God’s word. We take the Bible ser­i­ously as the author­ity for both our faith and our lives. We seek to exam­ine it in its his­tor­ic­al and lit­er­ary con­text so that we can gain a deep­er under­stand­ing. We want to avoid the errors of both the lit­er­al (fun­da­ment­al­ist) and lib­er­al inter­pret­a­tions of the Bible and we are aware that we can only under­stand the Bible cor­rectly with the help of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that the creeds of the early cen­tur­ies (the Apostles’ Creed, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and the Ath­anas­i­an Creed) are in har­mony with the teach­ing of the Bible. These creeds draw from early Chris­ti­an sources, which were con­sidered author­it­at­ive and gen­er­ally accep­ted when the creeds were writ­ten. While agree­ing with their con­tent, we are aware of the his­tor­ic­al and polit­ic­al cir­cum­stances in which they were writ­ten, which we do not approve of. In par­tic­u­lar we dis­tance ourselves from the degen­er­a­tion of Chris­tian­ity into a state reli­gion, its sec­u­lar­iz­a­tion and the prac­tice of form­al reli­gious wor­ship instead of simple and sin­cere Chris­ti­an life.

Faith, for us, is a real­ity which ful­fills all areas of our life and does not mean cul­tiv­a­tion of tra­di­tion­al customs.

Our com­munity is small in num­ber and con­sists of people with dif­fer­ent pro­fes­sions, with formerly dif­fer­ent reli­gious and social back­grounds. We simply want to be Chris­ti­ans, broth­ers and sis­ters who wor­ship God as our com­mon Fath­er and Jesus as our Lord.

We reject hier­arch­ic­al struc­tures as they are in clear con­tra­dic­tion to God’s word and broth­erly love. We are con­vinced that unity, which God wanted to be the real­ity among Chris­ti­ans, can­not be achieved by the con­trolling human struc­tures of author­ity but is only the fruit of obed­i­ence of every single dis­ciple towards the Holy Scrip­ture. We are in unity because each of us puts his own self aside and wants to fol­low what God revealed in the Bible and made recog­niz­able for everyone.

At present we know Chris­ti­ans in a few dif­fer­ent coun­tries, but we are look­ing for­ward to get­ting to know broth­ers and sis­ters in oth­er parts of the world as well. We think it would be a sin against broth­erly love for Chris­ti­ans to live side by side without tak­ing an interest in one anoth­er. In 1 John 3:14–16 the apostle wrote:

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the broth­ers. Who­ever does not love abides in death. …By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

No longer do I call you ser­vants, for the ser­vant does not know what his mas­ter is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Fath­er I have made known to you. (John 15:15)

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fath­ers by the proph­ets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appoin­ted the heir of all things, through whom also he cre­ated the world. He is the radi­ance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the uni­verse by the word of his power. After mak­ing puri­fic­a­tion for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high…. (Hebrews 1:1–3)