Our Beliefs

We are a confessional group who believe the Bible contains all that is necessary for faith and life.

As the Bible is a complex book, written over a span of 1500 years by over 40 different authors, we recognize that the untrained mind of fallen man working from "no creed but the Bible" will gravitate toward things in Scripture that it likes, and make unbiblical inferences.

We therefore join the church through all ages in embracing the ecumenical creeds which lay out the foundations of the Christian Faith.  These include the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.  These can be thought of as a very high-level map of, say, a country.  We share these creeds with Catholics, Orthodox, and traditional Protestants of many denominations.

We sit firmly in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries and believe that the Christian faith is more thoroughly fleshed out in the Reformed Confessions known as the Three Forms of Unity.  These confessions provide much greater detail of individual doctrines and are akin to maps of individual states or even cities within a country.  These are what distinguish Reformed people from those of other Protestant denominations.