Social Principles: The Nurturing Community
The Book of Discipline, ¶161 — The Social Principles
The community provides a redemptive place of fellowship where persons may grow and be strengthened. The Social Principles address the institutions and relationships through which we experience life together — family, marriage, singleness, and the rights and responsibilities that sustain community.
The community provides the potential for nurturing human beings into the fullness of their humanity. We believe we have a responsibility to innovate, sponsor, and evaluate new forms of community that will encourage development of the fullest potential in individuals.
The Family
We believe the family to be the basic human community through which persons are nurtured and sustained in mutual love, responsibility, respect, and fidelity. We affirm the importance of loving, nurturing, and supporting families in all their varied forms.
Other Persons
We affirm all persons as equally valuable in the sight of God. We therefore work toward societies in which each person's value is recognized, maintained, and strengthened.
Source: The Book of Discipline, ¶161 — The Social Principles
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