As an Evan­gel­i­cal Movement

We believe the Scrip­tures of the Old and New Tes­ta­ments to be God-breathed, inerrant in the orig­i­nal writ­ings, and the supreme and final author­ity in faith and life.

We believe in one God who eter­nally exists in three Per­sons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

We believe that Jesus Christ was begot­ten by the Holy Spirit and born of the Vir­gin Mary, and that He is true God and true man.

We believe that man was cre­ated in the image of God; that he sinned and thereby incurred not only phys­i­cal death but also spir­i­tual death, which is sep­a­ra­tion from God; and that all human beings are born with a sin­ful nature.

We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, accord­ing to the Scrip­tures, as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive and sub­sti­tu­tion­ary sac­ri­fice and that all who believe in Him are jus­ti­fied by His shed blood.

We believe in the res­ur­rec­tion of the cru­ci­fied body of our Lord, His ascen­sion into heaven, and His present life there for us as High Priest and Advocate.

We believe in the “blessed hope” — the per­sonal and vic­to­ri­ous return of our Lord and Sav­ior Jesus Christ.

We believe that all who are born again of the Holy Spirit, and repent and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, become chil­dren of God.

We believe in the bod­ily res­ur­rec­tion of the just and the unjust, the ever­last­ing blessed­ness of the saved and the ever­last­ing pun­ish­ment of the lost.

As a Reformed Church

We believe the Bible is the per­fectly true Word of God and the only author­ity for all of life.

We believe that sal­va­tion is only by the gra­cious choos­ing of the Father, the gra­cious sac­ri­fic­ing of the Son and the gra­cious regen­er­at­ing of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that a per­son receives sal­va­tion only through a faith given by God, irre­spec­tive of any past or future qual­ity of that person.

We believe that the sacra­ment of bap­tism is for believ­ers and also for their infant chil­dren, admin­is­tered by pour­ing or sprinkling.

We believe that the sacra­ment of the Lord’s Sup­per is for believ­ers who are pub­licly repen­tant, pro­fess­ing and com­mit­ted to Christ and His Church.

As a Pres­by­ter­ian Church

We believe in the form of church gov­ern­ment using elders: men qual­i­fied by God’s Word, accept­able to the con­gre­ga­tion and account­able to Christ, the Head of the Church.

We use the West­min­ster Con­fes­sion of Faith and the West­min­ster Larger and Shorter Cat­e­chisms as appro­pri­ate sum­maries of the major teach­ings of the Bible.

Pres­by­ter­ian Church in America

As one com­mu­nion in the world­wide church, the Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Amer­ica exists to glo­rify God by extend­ing the king­dom of Jesus Christ over all indi­vid­ual lives through all areas of soci­ety and in all nations and cul­tures. To accom­plish this end the PCA aims to fill the world with churches that are con­tin­u­ally grow­ing in vital wor­ship, in the­o­log­i­cal depth, in true fel­low­ship, in assertive evan­ge­lism and in deeds of compassion.

The dis­tinc­tive­ness of the PCA lies in our stress on both ref­or­ma­tion and revival. With­out an empha­sis on revival, “ref­or­ma­tion” may become either a mim­ic­k­ing of polit­i­cal ide­olo­gies. With­out an empha­sis on ref­or­ma­tion, “revival” may become a shal­low pietism or mys­ti­cism. Only ref­or­ma­tion and revival together can accom­plish the Great Com­mis­sion of our Lord.

We are com­mit­ted to the Scrip­tures and the his­toric West­min­ster Stan­dards based firmly on a bib­li­cal the­ol­ogy that answers the ques­tions and issues of each cul­ture and peo­ple to which we minister.

We are com­mit­ted to wor­ship that prac­tices the pres­ence and power of God within the church to the trans­for­ma­tion of the sur­round­ing cul­ture through bib­li­cal appli­ca­tion in pop­u­la­tion cen­ters around the world.

We are com­mit­ted to the win­ning of new con­verts and their incor­po­ra­tion into the church through the min­istry of the Word and to sig­nif­i­cant min­istry to the needy through deeds of mercy and service.

We are com­mit­ted to the free­dom of every mem­ber to min­is­ter through spir­i­tual gifts and also to the respon­si­bil­ity to do so under spir­i­tual author­ity and lov­ing discipline.

We are com­mit­ted to dynamic, prophetic con­fronta­tion on non-Christian thought forms and behav­ior and also to the demon­stra­tion of the truth through the prac­tice of holi­ness and love in Chris­t­ian fellowship.

We are com­mit­ted to guard­ing and strength­en­ing the bib­li­cal fam­ily and also to a min­istry to the bro­ken fam­ily forms such as the divorced, the wid­owed and the unwed parent.

We are com­mit­ted to teach­ing and dis­ci­pling men and women in the whole coun­sel of God and also to min­is­ter­ing to the needs of the whole per­son. True to the Scrip­tures, the reformed faith, and obe­di­ent to the Great Com­mis­sion of Jesus Christ.