WHAT WE BELIEVE ABOUT DISCIPLESHIP
At Christ the King PCA, we firmly believe the Bible is God’s holy and inspired Word and is therefore our only infallible rule for faith and life. The pastor is committed to teaching the entire Word of God from the pulpit, and the church provides many other opportunities for spiritual growth and development. There are mid-week men’s and women’s studies as well as other small group Bible studies. During the school year we have a Sunday School program for all ages. It is our conviction that the modern church is suffering from an identity crisis. Many have succumbed to a subtle form of spiritual humanism, where pragmatism has replaced doctrine and ends justify unbiblical means. Worship has been eclipsed by entertainment and the prophetic witness of the Scriptures has been replaced by the latest self-help or church growth offering. Seeking to have an impact upon culture, she has imitated the very culture she ought to be confronting with the Gospel. In doing so, the church has become compromised. Her only hope is for God’s people to be thoroughly equipped “theologians”–able to “rightly divide the word”.
In the 1500s a movement took hold which is now referred to as “The Reformation”. The result was the liberation of God’s people from bondage to a perverted religious system based more upon man’s tradition than the Bible. The Reformation resulted in five biblical emphases still needful for our own day: The Bible alone as God’s sufficient source of knowledge leading to abundant, eternal life; Grace alone, or an understanding that man is incapable of reforming himself – God must graciously change his heart; Christ alone – man’s only hope is to rest in the finished work of Christ in redemption; Faith alone – the gift of faith is the alone means by which sinners appropriate the righteousness of Christ; the glory of God alone–the sum total of the lives of redeemed sinners is to be offered to God as a sacrifice of service for His glory only.
May God enable these principles to accomplish a new reformation.