According to the Orthodox Christian faith, the Church is not founded on written texts but on the confession that Christ is God-man (theanthropos), namely that in the Person of Christ, God was joined with man, "indivisibly, immovably, unmistakably, inseparably," and man has come into actual communion with God, and in the Person of Christ and man were hypostatically united, in one unique hypostasis.

According to our tradition tama (plu. tamata) is a votive offering or promise for something to happen when someone requires help or a miracle. They are rectangular pieces of metal (tin, silver, or gold) with miniature body parts on the plaque symbolizes the subject of prayer (the miracle) for which the tama (promise or pledge) is offered.

Within the unity of the one Body, each believer continues to be the concrete person that he is; he is not absorbed by the whole. This is why both in divine worship and in the sacramental (Mysteriaki Zoe) life each individual is commemorated by name. He received from the Holy Spirit his own gift, and he is called to us it not egotistically, but for the edification of the other members and for the growth of the overall body, together with his own growth "in Christ".  The Apostle Saint states: "To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To me is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gift of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

The Church is supposed to be a community of people united by the Spirit of God. While this is what it is supposed to be, sometimes churches have problems. Pride, gossip, slander, malice, deception, etc. can all come in and do harm to the "Bride" of Christ, the Church.

The Holy Spirit was not revealed in the same manner in which the Son was revealed; He remains unapproachable to man. He is however in His Divine Energies, through the gifts which He bestows upon the faithful. He is "the Treasury of good things and the Bestower of life", according to the prayer of the Church.

"It is Christ Who gives us the power to walk, and He is Himself the way; He is the lodging where we stay for the night, as well as our final destination" (Saint Nicolas Cabasilas).