We are a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), a denomination “true to the Scriptures, the reformed faith, and obedient to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.” We are committed to biblical faith as set forth in part by the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, but look to the Bible as the ultimate authority. Below is a summary of our core beliefs.
CORE BELIEFS*
Trinity
We believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who know, love, and glorify one another.
The Bible
We believe God has graciously disclosed his existence and power in the created order and has supremely revealed himself to fallen human beings in the person of his Son, the incarnate Word. We believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments. These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings, complete in its revelation of his will for salvation, sufficient for all that God requires us to believe and do, and final in its authority over every domain of knowledge to which it speaks.
Creation of Humanity
We believe that God created human beings, male and female, in his own image. Adam and Eve were made to complement each other in a one-flesh union that establishes the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women, such that marriage ultimately serves as a type of the union between Christ and his church.
Marriage
We believe marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman instituted by God for the mutual happiness of his people and for the glory of his name. As such, it is the duty of Christians to marry only in the Lord, that is, to marry fellow believers.
The Fall
We believe that Adam, made in the image of God, distorted that image and forfeited his original blessedness—for himself and all his progeny—by falling into sin through Satan’s temptation. As a result, all human beings are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being (e.g., physically, mentally, volitionally, emotionally, spiritually) and condemned finally and irrevocably to death—apart from God’s own gracious intervention.
The Gospel
We believe that the Gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ—God’s very wisdom. Christ died for our sins and was raised from the dead to reconcile us with God.
The Redemption of Christ
We believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son, Jesus Christ, became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures. The man Jesus, the promised Messiah of Israel, was conceived through the miraculous agency of the Holy Spirit and was born of the virgin Mary. He perfectly obeyed his heavenly Father, lived a sinless life, performed miraculous signs, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven. As the mediatorial King, he is seated at the right hand of God the Father, exercising in heaven and on earth all of God’s sovereignty, and is our High Priest and righteous Advocate. We believe that salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name given under heaven by which we must be saved.
The Justification of Sinners
We believe that Christ, by his obedience and death, fully discharged the debt of all those who are justified. Inasmuch as Christ was given by the Father for us, and his obedience and punishment were accepted in place of our own, freely and not for anything in us, this justification is solely of free grace, in order that both the exact justice and the rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.
*Adapted from The Gospel Coalition’s Confessional Statement.
