Indianapolis, Indiana
Soma Midtown Distinctives:
We are a church that is intentionally architected around spiritual formation and practicing the way of Jesus. We have designed a community rule of life and discipleship pathway aimed at helping people learn to follow Jesus and through the power of the Holy Spirit be formed into mature disciples of Christlike love.
We are a neighborhood church that prioritizes relational presence over consumeristic platforms, programs, and power. We believe the church is a spiritual family, and so we have curated a rich ecosystem of community - Sunday gatherings, missional communities, discipleship groups, dinner tables - so that people can learn to share life together with Jesus.
We are a missional church seeking the holistic flourishing of Indianapolis. We strive to be a faithful presence that bears witness to God’s kingdom in the city with the courage and compassionate love of Jesus.
We seek to become God's beloved multicultural family by bridging historic racial, cultural, economic, generational, and political barriers through spiritual practices like justice, mercy, and reconciliation.
We are a church planting church with a passion for incubating and multiplying new congregations in our city and beyond.
We teach the Scriptures with the goal of whole-life integration. Our teaching is biblical, thoughtful, interdisciplinary, historically rooted, culturally responsive, and formation oriented.
We are a theologically diverse nondenominational community rooted in Christian orthodoxy as articulated in the ancient creeds while also synthesizing several other streams in the Great Tradition: Reformed, charismatic, baptistic, contemplative, social justice, liturgical, complementarian (male elders with women leaders + preachers), and a commitment to a historic sexual ethic.