CRCOnline promotes an approach to Christian faith and living in which:
- conventional approaches to Christianity are no longer satisfying
- living with questions is more important than finding answers
- believing in a God of miracles may seem beyond comprehension
- faith is rooted in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, trying to understand who Jesus was rather than doctrines about him
- examining the authority of Jesus’:
- humanity, wisdom and vision
- passion for justice and inclusive compassion
- grounding of spirituality within the earthiness of existence
- capacity for affirming life and engendering a fuller, profounder quality of human being in others
- enables us to articulate why Jesus is still important for each of us
- faith is more about searching for meaning than securing salvation
- relating to Jesus is more persuasive than focusing on the Christ of the church
- looking for a way of life is more important than a set of beliefs
- including all within the community of Jesus is crucial
- being open to and engaging with contemporary society, its challenges, its idioms, its multiple faiths, its way of being, is integral to discipleship
- any forms of prejudice or discrimination have no place.