Welcome to Christ the King Reformed Church

Scripture alone is our final authority (Sola Scriptura). At the same time, we regard the Westminster Standards as a reliable and faithful expression of the doctrines contained in God’s Word. Because we are a confessional Presbyterian congregation, we practice an honest subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith, always holding it as subordinate to the Scriptures themselves. We also confess the ancient creeds of the church: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and the Definition of Chalcedon.

Read the Full Westminster Confession of Faith with our stated exceptions.

(7.2)

We clarify that the prelapsarian covenant is more properly designated the “covenant of life” rather than the “covenant of works.” This covenant was not meritorious in character. We deny that any covenant relationship with God can be maintained apart from faith. Objection is taken to the language of “upon condition of perfect and personal obedience” insofar as it implies that Adam was to earn or merit divine favor, rather than to receive an inheritance through faith.

(19.1)

Consistent with the foregoing, the term “covenant of works” is more accurately rendered “covenant of life.”

(19.3–4)

We affirm that what is known as the ceremonial ordinances connected with the temple, priesthood, and sacrificial system were temporary and have been fulfilled in the person and work of Jesus Christ, as the Old Testament prophesied and the New Testament declares. Their specific forms of worship are therefore no longer binding.

We take exception, however, to the Confession’s broader treatment of the ceremonial and judicial laws. Many of the statutes given through Moses embody abiding creational principles rooted in the character of God and ordered for the good of mankind. These principles continue to instruct the Church in holiness, wisdom, and righteousness.

With respect to the civil laws, we further except the Confession’s assertion that they expired with the Israelite state and obligate no further than a vague “general equity.” We maintain that these laws, as concrete expressions of divine justice and creational order, remain a normative model for civil government and societal life under the New Covenant.

(29.7)

We clarify that “worthy receivers” of the Lord’s Supper include all baptized covenant members who are able to partake of the elements, including young children being reared in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (provided they are not under formal discipline). We deny that an artificial threshold of age or cognitive capacity is consistent with the biblical warrant for participation at the Table. Discernment of a child’s readiness is properly entrusted to the head of the household.

• Holy Scripture is the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God, the sole rule of faith and practice.

• There is one true and living God, eternally self-existent in three coequal and consubstantial persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• In Adam’s fall, the entire human race lost its original righteousness and became spiritually dead, wholly corrupted, and enslaved to sin.

• In sovereign love and mercy, God the Father has chosen a people from every nation for redemption, whom the Holy Spirit effectively applies the benefits of Christ’s atoning death and resurrection.

• Those whom the Spirit regenerates are effectually called through the Word, granted true faith in Christ, adopted as sons of God, incorporated into His Church, and preserved in grace unto the end.

• Justification is by faith alone, whereby the undeserving sinner is accounted righteous solely through the imputed righteousness of Christ.

• The end of God’s saving work is that the redeemed might live in worship, pursue holiness, and render service to the glory of God alone.

• Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are signs and seals of the covenant of grace, administered to believers and their children, as well as to those who come to faith in adulthood.

• The Church, in the power of the Holy Spirit, is commissioned to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ until the nations are discipled prior to His return.