Below is an abridged version of Christ the King’s statement of faith. For Bible references and the complete version, please click here.

PREAMBLE

Christ the King Church exists to help people know, love, and obey Jesus Christ as Lord over all of life. 

THE TRIUNE GOD

We believe in one God, eternally existing in three equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who know, love, and glorify one another. 

REVELATION

We believe that God has inspired the words preserved in the Scriptures, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, which are both record and means of his saving work in the world. These writings alone constitute the verbally inspired Word of God, which is utterly authoritative and without error in the original writings, complete in its revelation of his will for salvation, sufficient for all that God requires us to believe and do, and final in its authority over every domain of knowledge to which it speaks.

THE FALL

We believe that Adam, made in the image of God, distorted that image and forfeited his original blessedness—for himself and all his progeny—by falling into sin through Satan’s temptation. As a result, all human beings are alienated from God, corrupted in every aspect of their being and condemned finally and irrevocably to death—apart from God’s own gracious intervention.

GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSE

We believe that from all eternity God determined in grace to save a great multitude of guilty sinners from every tribe and language and people and nation, and to this end foreknew them and chose them. We believe that God justifies and sanctifies those who by grace have faith in Jesus, and that he will one day glorify them—all to the praise of his glorious grace. In love God commands and implores all people to repent and believe, having set his saving love on those he has chosen and having ordained Christ to be their Redeemer.

THE GOSPEL

We believe that the gospel is the good news of Jesus Christ—God's very wisdom.he Gospel is biblical (his death and resurrection are according to the Scriptures), theological, and salvific (Christ died for our sins, to reconcile us to God), historical (if the saving events did not happen, our faith is worthless, we are still in our sins, and we are to be pitied more than all others), apostolic (the message was entrusted to and transmitted by the apostles, who were witnesses of these saving events), and intensely personal (where it is received, believed, and held firmly, individual persons are saved). 

THE REDEMPTION OF CHRIST

We believe that, moved by love and in obedience to his Father, the eternal Son became human: the Word became flesh, fully God and fully human being, one Person in two natures. The man Jesus, the promised Messiah of Israel, was conceived through the miraculous agency of the Holy Spirit, and was born of the virgin Mary. He perfectly obeyed his heavenly Father, lived a sinless life, performed miraculous signs, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, arose bodily from the dead on the third day, and ascended into heaven.

REPENTANCE AND FAITH

Repentance is a gospel gift and a heart orientation of hatred for sin which is the inevitable fruit of faith in Christ. There is no salvation apart from faith and repentance. When we become aware of our sin and need of grace, we humble ourselves, pray for forgiveness, turn away from our sin, and trust the Holy Spirit’s power to walk in a manner pleasing to God. Repentance continues through the whole course of life because of the persistence of indwelling sin.

THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Sent by the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ, and, as the “Helper,” is present with and in believers. He convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment, and by his powerful and mysterious work regenerates spiritually dead sinners, awakening them to repentance and faith, and in him they are baptized into union with the Lord Jesus, such that they are justified before God by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. By the Spirit’s agency, believers are renewed, sanctified, and adopted into God’s family; they participate in the divine nature and receive his sovereignly distributed gifts.

THE PERSEVERANCE OF BELIEVERS

The elect are those whom God has drawn to Himself, sanctified by his Spirit, and given faith to believe in the gospel of Christ. Thus, the elect can neither totally nor finally fall away from the state of grace, but they shall certainly persevere to the end and be eternally saved.

ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

Those who truly believe in Christ, who love him sincerely, and strive to live in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in the state of grace and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Although some may experience seasons of doubt where they are tempted to question whether they are in the faith, it is not God’s will to leave us without hope, but rather for us to strive in faith to be restored to our hope in the gospel.

THE KINGDOM OF GOD

The kingdom of God, already present but not fully realized, is the exercise of God’s sovereignty in the world toward the eventual redemption of all creation. 

GOD’S NEW PEOPLE

We believe that God’s new covenant people have already come to the heavenly Jerusalem; they are already seated with Christ in the heavenlies. This universal church is manifest in local churches of which Christ is the only Head; thus each “local church” is, in fact, the church, the household of God, the assembly of the living God, and the pillar and foundation of the truth. The church is the body of Christ, the apple of his eye, graven on his hands, and he has pledged himself to her forever. The church is distinguished by her gospel message, her sacred ordinances, her discipline, her great mission, and, above all, by her love for God, and by her members’ love for one another and for the world.

ELDERS

The elders are the final human authority in the church. Elders are biblically qualified men who are called to the office by God and affirmed by the church through prayer and examination. The work of the elders is to feed, lead, and protect the flock of God. This is done primarily through prayer, biblical preaching, pastoral care, and church discipline. Elders are also responsible to equip the saints for the work of ministry by affirming their gifts and deploying them for service.

BAPTISM & THE LORD’S SUPPER

We believe that baptism and the Lord’s Supper (also called “communion”) are ordained by the Lord Jesus himself and are reserved only for believers. The former is connected with entrance into the new covenant community, the latter with ongoing covenant renewal.

MARRIAGE AND SEXUALITY

God has ordained the family as the foundational institution of human society. It is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. The term “marriage” has only one meaning: a covenant between one man and one woman, in a single exclusive union, by which their status changes from two individuals to one flesh as God joins them together. It is an earthly covenant between one man and one woman that God created and sanctioned to image the unbreakable heavenly covenant between Christ and His Church, therefore intended not to be broken by anything but death.

The husband and wife are of equal worth before God, since both are created in God's image. The marriage relationship models the way God relates to His people. A husband is to love his wife as Christ loved the church. He has the God-given responsibility to provide for, to protect, and to lead his family. A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She, being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper in various ways, such as managing the household and nurturing the next generation.

God created sex as a gift to be enjoyed between husband and wife within the lifelong covenant of marriage. God has commanded that no intimate sexual activity be engaged in outside of this marriage covenant. We believe that the exercise of sexual expression outside the biblical definition of marriage in any manner, including but not limited to adultery, homosexuality, premarital sex, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, and use of pornography, is sinful and contradictory to God’s design for sexuality and marriage.

THE SOCIAL ORDER

All Christians are under obligation to seek to make the will of Christ supreme in our own lives and in human society. Means and methods used for the improvement of society and the establishment of righteousness among men can be truly and permanently helpful only when they are rooted in the regeneration of the individual by the saving grace of God in Jesus Christ. In the spirit of Christ, Christians should oppose racism, every form of greed, selfishness, and vice, and all forms of sexual immorality, including adultery, homosexuality, and pornography. We should work to provide for the orphaned, the needy, the abused, the aged, the helpless, and the sick. We should speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death. Every Christian should seek to bring industry, government, and society as a whole under the sway of the principles of righteousness, truth, and brotherly love.

THE RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS

We believe in the personal, glorious, and bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ with his holy angels, when he will exercise his role as final Judge, and his kingdom will be consummated. We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the just and the unjust—the unjust to judgment and eternal conscious punishment in hell, as our Lord himself taught, and the just to eternal blessedness in the presence of him who sits on the throne and of the Lamb, in the new heaven and the new earth, the home of righteousness. On that day the church will be presented faultless before God by the obedience, suffering and triumph of Christ, all sin purged and its wretched effects forever banished.pagebreakbar2-01