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They pledge to live by trust and prayer to assist the Church's life as a real-world community that demonstrates Jesus' "person, priorities, and practices... through the gathered body of Christ." The organization also seeks to help establish peace and reveal that there are alternatives to violence through listening, learning, and practicing mercy. The
Project means to "challenge communities and practices that have minimized or diluted the church's obligation to be a 'light of the nations'". By providing a place for Christian dialogue to happen in an open and friendly atmosphere; The Ekklesia Project seeks to maintain critical conversation that will lead to the building of the Body of Christ, and to do so for a variety of audiences. Through various publications, conversation, retreats, gatherings, and worship are the means by which they seek promote a more "
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