Along with true Christians of all times and in all places, we adhere to the historic Christian creeds:
We use these creeds in our worship liturgy and believe them, along with our doctrinal confessions, to be an accurate summary of the Christian faith. We do not believe these creeds and confessions supplant the Word of God, but rather are accurate expressions of what Scripture teaches.
We are Reformed in our faith and practice according to the Scriptures as summarized during the sixteenth century Protestant Reformation in the Three Forms of Unity:
- The Belgic Confession (1561)
- The Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
- The Canons of Dort (1619)
Reformed churches are PROTESTANT1 churches claim that Jesus Christ is the Head of his Church and that he rules and governs his Church by his Word and Spirit. Reformed churches teach that sinful humans are saved by grace alone, through faith alone (the Five Solas). We believe God uses certain means to bestow grace upon and enliven the faith of His people. This happens by preaching of the Word and the partaking of the Sacraments: baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
Covenant URC is born out the Reformation of the 16th Century. The Reformation reclaimed some very important truths that, over the previous centuries, had been obscured and nearly lost. We believe that these same issues, now after nearly 500 years since the Reformation, need to be reclaimed for our day. Sharing the conviction of faithful preachers and theologians who wrote the Cambridge Declaration in 1996, we labor for a modern reformation.
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- Protestant churches are churches that arose during the 16th Century and protested the authority and doctrines of the Roman Catholic church. ↩︎