What we believe
The faith once delivered to the saints.
Scripture is our only rule for faith and life. These convictions shape our worship, our teaching, and our life together.
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The Bible
- We believe that the Bible is the only rule and guide to our life of faith, and all Scripture is God-breathed and is the inspired, infallible, and authoritative Word of God.
- We believe we are living in God’s story of redemption which is constructed and governed by God’s unfailing covenants and promises.
- We believe that interpreting the Bible correctly requires using consistent exegetical principles that include grammatical/literary, historical, contextual, and language filters, as well as a consistent systematic theology.
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Reformed Confessions & Faith
- We believe in the total sovereignty of God in all things, and that we are forever and completely forgiven of our sins by God’s grace alone, through the gift of faith alone, in Christ’s atoning sacrifice alone, as revealed in the Bible alone, all for the glory of God alone.
- We believe that Jesus is the only King and Head of the Church, and He calls all His followers into a royal priesthood to serve Him and His Church.
- We believe the Apostles, Athanasian, and Nicene Creeds unite all Christians as the global Church.
- We believe in the Heidelberg Catechism, Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dort as historic Reformed expressions of the Christian faith, because their interpretations align with our understanding of God’s Word and these creeds and confessions come from the authority, clarity, and sufficiency of the eternal Word alone. These doctrinal standards, which are taken from Scripture, help us to understand the Bible and unite us in the way we practice our faith and distinguish us as Reformed within the larger Body of Christ.
- We believe in the Belhar Confession as an addendum to the Belgic Confession, to give its call to unity a more biblical context.
- We believe in the Great Lakes Catechism on Marriage and Sexuality as an addendum to the Heidelberg Catechism to give its teaching on human sexuality a more biblical context.
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The Church
- We believe the Church is the chosen people of God throughout redemptive history, united in true faith, and sent out with the message of the Gospel and is the heart of God’s mission to the world.
- We believe the mission of multiplication should be at the core of every church, and we will prioritize our resources to continue growing existing communities of faith and planting new ones.
