What We Believe

Statement of Faith

We are attempting to be faithful to Christ, the King and head of the Church, and to His Word, the Bible. Therefore. . .

We believe in the holiness and love of God. We acknowledge that God is a holy God and that everyone, because of sin, needs to be reconciled to Him through His Son Jesus Christ, accomplished by the Holy Spirit changing hearts. We are committed to proclaiming this truth.

We believe in the Lordship of Christ. As Christians, we believe in Christ’s Lordship for our personal lives and our growing in likeness to Him. We believe that Christ ultimately rules over all things and that all parts of God’s creation are obligated to conform to His Word. We are committed to working toward this goal.

We believe in worship that honors that Lord. Our worship is not designed to entertain or honor man, but rather to gather as a people to concentrate our attention upon God. As we do, we find Him faithful to meet our needs. We committed to heartfelt, God-honoring worship.

We believe in the infallibility and inerrancy of the Scriptures. We believe the Bible to be without error and sufficient to guide us as to what we are to believe and how we are to live. We are committed to the study of God’s Word, trusting His Spirit to enable us to use our minds to correctly interpret His truth and apply it to all of life.

We believe in the unity of the body of Christ. We are united to each other as part of God’s family in Christ. We are each unique, with needs and abilities answering to the needs and abilities of one another. We are attempting to practice God’s love, forgiveness, truth, and patience in our relationships. Often, we fail, but we are perseveringly committed to being family as our Father wants us to be.

Doctrinal Views

As a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), CRPC’s doctrinal standards can be found in the Westminster Confession of Faith, along with the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms. The Westminster Confession, as well as its catechisms, contains the doctrines of the Reformed faith and classical Protestantism. We believe that these documents are an accurate summary of what is taught in the Scriptures.

This is not to say, however, that we believe the Westminster Standards are perfect or somehow above the teachings of the Bible. The Bible remains our final authority in what we believe.

All church leadership (elders and deacons) are required to subscribe to the teaching found in our doctrinal standards. However members are certainly not obligated by our church to believe all that is found in the Westminster Confession.