What We Believe

Presbyterian Church in America

INErranCY OF SCRIPTURE

We believe the Bible is the written word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit and without error in the original manuscripts. The Bible is the revelation of God’s truth and is infallible and authoritative in all matters of faith and practice.


WE ARE SINNERS

We believe that all are sinners and totally unable to save themselves from God’s displeasure, except by His mercy and grace.


HOLY TRINITY

We believe in the Holy Trinity. There is one God, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.


GOD IS SOVEREIGN

We believe that salvation is by God alone as He sovereignly chooses those He will save. We believe His choice is based on His grace, not on any human individual merit, or foreseen faith.


CHRIST ALONE

We believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God, who through His perfect life and sacrificial death atoned for the sins of all who will trust in Him alone for salvation.


GOD IS COVENaNTAL

We believe that God is gracious and faithful to His people not simply as individuals but as families in successive generations according to His Covenant promises.


BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

We believe that the Holy Spirit gives new life to and indwells God’s people and gives them the strength and wisdom to trust Christ and follow Him.


JESUS WILL RETURN

We believe that Jesus will return, bodily and visibly, to judge all mankind and to receive His people to Himself.


JESUS IS LORD OVER ALL

We believe that all aspects of our lives are to be lived to the glory of God under the Lordship of Jesus Christ.


CREEDS & CONFESSIONS

We are a church committed to the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation while holding to the historic Christian faith expressed in the ecumenical creeds (e.g., the Apostles and Nicene Creeds). We strive to remain faithful to the biblical theology as expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms. For a full statement of what we believe, see the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms.