Distinctions of power, privilege and estate, which apply outside Wedgewood's doors, do not apply within our doors.  Women, men and children; persons of any color, culture, age, ability, economic status, sexual or affectional orientation; skeptics and those who pursue common or unorthodox religious paths….all are welcome at Wedgewood.

Actually, the only people who are not welcome at Wedgewood are perfect people. We don't want anyone messing up our record.

By "a thinking faith" we do not mean that being a Christian requires being smart. Rather, what we have in mind is a faith that is faith, a faith that does not confuse faith with certainty, a faith that has more to do with being honest: honest about God, honest about the Bible, honest about life, honest about ourselves and others, honest about having doubts.

Why do churches have a thousand committees? Why is it so hard to get churches to approve doing what Jesus said to do?

If a person wants to do something for Jesus and the world, we ask that person to share what they want to do with the congregation to see if others want to join in. Most of the time we put the ministry in the budget. It's that simple. Some times others join in and some times they don't, but we try not to get in the way of anybody wanting to do good.

Too often the focus of churches is the church itself. Churches can become clubs. Keeping the institutional church going, building buildings, maintaining buildings, etc. can sap the life and energy and time of a congregation. The church; however, is not the point. The point is to love the world as Jesus loved the world.

We resist formulas. There is no one right way to worship. There is no one perfect model of being and doing church. There is no one right way to preach or pray or perform baptism or the Lord's Supper. Much of what goes on at churches is nothing more than personal preferences. Does God really care about all the church matters we get so uptight about?.

We also, true to our Baptist heritage, strongly resist creeds. We are suspicious of any Christian who has it all figured out.

Wedgewood is blessed with many preachers. Wedgewood preachers are encouraged to preach what they want to preach and congregants are encouraged to discuss and disagree with sermons. No one sermon can contain all the truth. The sermon is viewed as a catalyst for thought/action and not as the final word.