What We Believe

Grace Presbyterian Church is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America. Our first commitment is to the Bible, the inspired and inerrant Word of God and the only infallible rule of faith and practice.

Christian.

With the church in every age we confess the faith summarized in the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. There is one God, eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The eternal Son took on flesh, was born of the virgin Mary, lived in perfect obedience, died in the place of sinners, rose bodily from the grave, ascended to the Father's right hand, and will return visibly to judge the living and the dead.

Reformed.

We hold the doctrines recovered in the Reformation. All mankind fell in Adam and cannot save itself. God, out of his mere mercy, chose a people for himself; Christ redeemed them by his death and resurrection; the Holy Spirit gives them new birth and faith. Sinners are justified by grace alone through faith alone, clothed in the righteousness of Christ alone, and those whom God saves he keeps to the end and grows in holiness. We read the whole Bible as one unfolding covenant of grace, which is why we baptize both those who profess faith and the children of believers.

Presbyterian.

Christ rules his church through elders chosen by the congregation, and our congregation is joined to others through our presbytery and the General Assembly. Our officers vow to uphold the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms as the best summary of what Scripture teaches. Membership does not require that vow. It requires a credible profession of faith in Christ.