What We Believe

We belong to the Christian Reformed Church of North America.  As a denomination, we have common confessions expressing our faith and guiding our life and a relationship of accountability, encouragement and support.  

One of our favourite ways of expressing our faith is found in the words of the Heidelberg Catechism: 

Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death?

A. That I am not my own,

but belong—
body and soul,
in life and in death—
to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.
He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil. He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of my Father in heaven: in fact, all things must work together for my salvation.
Because I belong to him, Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready from now on to live for him.

If you wish to explore our common faith, we invite you to link to http://crcna.org/pages/beliefs.cfm.

 

Because we belong to Jesus, we believe that:

Our identity is found in Jesus

Ephesians 1:4  For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.

Ephesians 2:10  For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

God wants us to bear fruit

John 15:4-8  Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.  5 "I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing …  8 This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

God wants us to live in love

John 15:14-17  14 You are my friends if you do what I command.  15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. … 17 This is my command: Love each other.

God wants us to be responsible for creation

Genesis 1:27-28  27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.  28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Psalm 8:3-9  3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,  4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?  5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.  6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:  7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,  8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.  9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

God wants us to seek the Kingdom of God

Matthew 6:31-34  31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'  32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.  33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.  34  Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own