Grace is at the center of everything.
Here’s what we believe about God and His Word, and the values that shape how we worship, pray, minister, grow, serve, and reach out to the world.
We celebrate what Jesus has done for us rather than what we need to do for Jesus.
He is our champion rather than our judge. His sacrifice is all sufficient, not only to save us from our sin but also to make us righteous in Him.
We are fully qualified, through the sacrifice of Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit, to walk with influence and authority, impacting our world the way Jesus did during His time on the earth. As we worship, pray, minister, grow, serve, and reach out to the world we especially value:
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Good News
The grace of God in Jesus Christ is at the center of everything.
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Shame-Free
People change because they are loved, not in order to become so.
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Blessing
We affirm what people are destined to become through God’s grace.
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Relationship
We reject religious performance and embrace our spiritual inheritance in Christ.
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Miracles
We believe God continues to work supernaturally all around us.
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Healing
The Holy Spirit works through us to bring emotional and physical healing to others.
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Balance
The Church is all for grace AND truth; the power of the Spirit AND the authority of God’s Word.
Built on the sure foundation of God’s Word
All Scripture is self-attesting, and being Truth requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God—the 66 books of the Old and New Testaments—is a complete and unified witness to God’s redemptive acts culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks. On this sure foundation, we affirm these additional essentials of our faith.
God
We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory and praise forever!
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one Person forever. He died on the cross a sacrifice for our sins according to the Scriptures. On the third day He arose bodily from the dead, ascended into heaven where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.
The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior, indwelling our hearts. He gives new life to us, empowers and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth, and seals us for the day of redemption.
Salvation
Being estranged from God and condemned by our sinfulness, our salvation is wholly dependent upon the work of God’s free grace. God credits His righteousness to those who put their faith in Christ alone for their salvation, and thereby justifies them in His sight. Only such as are born of the Holy Spirit and receive Jesus Christ become children of God and heirs of eternal life.
The Church
The true Church is composed of all persons who through saving faith in Jesus Christ and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit are united together in the body of Christ. The Church finds her visible yet imperfect expression in local congregations where the Word of God is preached in its purity and the sacraments are administered in their integrity, where scriptural discipline is practiced, and where loving fellowship is maintained. For her perfecting she awaits the return of her Lord.
Christ’s Return
Jesus Christ will come again to the earth personally, visibly, and bodily—to judge the living and the dead, and to consummate history and the eternal plan of God. “Even so, come, Lord Jesus” (Revelation 22:20).
The Great Commission
The Lord Jesus Christ commands all believers to proclaim the gospel throughout the world and to make disciples of all nations. Obedience to the Great Commission requires total commitment to “Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.” He calls us to a life of self-denying love and service. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
The Essentials are set forth in greater detail in the Westminster Confession of Faith.
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Reynolda Church is part of the EPC, a global movement of Evangelical Presbyterian Churches. The EPC exists to carry out the Great Commission of Jesus as a denomination of Presbyterian, Reformed, Evangelical, and Missional congregations.
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