Church of the Resurrection

I was done with Churchianity, and I was pretty much done with the institutional church when I came to DC. Then — through an act of providence — I ended up in this very institutional church in 2005, and I’m still there.
The services are fine (I don’t really care for services in most churches in general). I especially like the music style and the fact that we do communion every week. The preaching is very meaty and not for someone looking for three points and a poem. Most important for me is that it’s a place where people are warm and caring during the service and especially outside of the service. Now that I’ve got kids, I also appreciate the very personal atmosphere of the Sunday School experience for the kids and the fact that my girls are growing up surrounded by the warmth of this Christ-​centered community.
It’s not perfect, but I’m not perfect either. I’m so grateful for this body of believers.

I’ve been going to Church of the Rez for about 2 years now and I’ve really been enjoying it.
There is a very strong community of people that have a heart for the Lord, for DC, and for the world as a whole.
The staff is filled with pretty amazing people. The pastors have taught me so much.
The services aren’t what I initially expected. It’s a combo of liturgy and comtemporary practices. I think the theology is right on.
It’s been fun to be there and grow there with the church.

I agree completely with the first review, but just wanted to add some nuances to it. I am a christian, went to seminary, and have a very strong faith in God. I too fell for this church — thinking finally I had found the passionate worship and intellectually stimulating place I had looked for. But I was wrong. Although I love many people at the church dearly, I do not agree with a lot of their policies. First that they do not allow people to partake in Eucharist without being baptized and ‘walking in faith with jesus,’ — I was under the impression that Eucharist is the table of the Lord and not the table of a group of people and therefore open to all of God’s people, whom God loves equally and without reservation. Second is the fact that women are not allowed to preach or be elders in the church. This I find is unconscionable. Maybe they haven’t read the story of Deborah or realized that Jesus first entrusted the news of his resurrection to women. Third is that they believe men are the head of the household — to this no one has ever satisfactorily explained to me how this does not make men and women unequal and make women subservient. I attended a wedding at the church and the woman was instructed to say «love honor and respect» — reminding me of the antiquated instruction of to «love honor and obey». Of course the man was not instructed to respect his wife. Fourth is the fact that they split with the Episcopal church because of the former’s treatment of gays. Again no one has quite explained to me how you can love gays but hate gay conduct. What is gay conduct? When does it become a sin? Holding hands? Kissing? Sodomy? I find similar rhetoric in the circular opinions of Scalia in his attempt to separate the gay person from the gay conduct. Those are my main grievances. I want to find a church where love is really love. Unconditional, nonjudgmental love. If you know of a good church where I can find this plus passionate worshiping of our Gof let me know!