About RPC
Reformed Presbyterian Church exists to be a stream of God's refreshing grace for people from all walks of life.
Worship
The glory of God is our center. In worship we gather to adore and celebrate Jesus Christ, our living King. He is the primary audience who promises to gather with his people to receive their praise, thanksgiving, repentance, and devotion.
This is why we endeavor to offer a kind of worship that is fitting for an all-powerful, risen King: majestic, earnest, sincere, and joyful.
Truth
If worship is our core, then Truth is our foundation. We believe that God himself, being Truth and Life, has revealed himself intelligently and accurately in the person of Jesus Christ and in the errorless body of truth we call the scriptures.
We are, therefore, committed to the authority and centrality of the Scriptures in all our ministries. It is our expressed purpose to communicate his Truth with clarity and relevance to all of life's situations so that Christ can be seen as Lord in all things.
Grace
The cornerstone of our ministry is Grace, God's unmerited favor. Left to ourselves, we deny the need for grace. Instead we cling to the impossible: the production of a self-made righteousness. This only leads to fear-based behavior and slavish efforts to make oneself good.
We believe that Jesus' efforts alone provide a perfect righteousness that is of God's making, not ours. He calls all people to abandon their self-efforts and to rely instead on the perfect righteousness of the historical Jesus who lived, died, and rose in our place.
We are committed to the centrality of this grace in all our ministries. We freely admit that we are more sinful and lost that we ever dared to believe. Yet through Christ we are more accepted and loved than we ever dared to hope. This gospel frees us from fear and slavery and leads to a life and ministry of freedom, joy, hope, and love.
1) The Hurting
Historically, Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPC) has served as a haven for those struggling with the futility of works-based religion or the confusion of modern theology. Here they have found genuine grace and truth in the person of Christ and the people of God. It is our goal to provide both refuge and new beginnings for all of these as well in those who have been overcome by the difficulties of life.
2) The Seeker
RPC desires to provide a safe place where people can ask any question in their search for truth and God. We freely confess our belief in the historical Christ and in revealed truth. It is our goal not only to provide truthful answers but also to encourage questions about the profound issues concerning God and life.
3) Transformation
We encourage each other to continually pursue the truth regarding God and self. Only the Truth found in Jesus Christ is capable of freeing us from sinful and destructive behavior. As God's light exposes the darkness of our hearts, his Grace enables genuine transformation to begin.
4) Change Through God's People
We believe God uses ordinary people to bring about change in our lives. Therefore, we affirm the value of accountability through small groups, support groups, counseling, discipleship, and friendships. These kinds of connections within the church family provide hope through which growth and healed relationships can take place.
5) Spiritual Gifts and Service
RPC believes that God has provided each person, male and female, with spiritual gifts. When properly put to use, these gifts serve as tangible expressions of God's grace which edify his people. Our goal is to help God's people to recognize their gifts, nurture them as individuals, and entrust them with ministries.
6) Small Group Ministry
We believe that small group ministry is a strategic setting in which to fulfill God's directive to present each member complete in Christ (Col. 1:28). Small groups provide a primary location for the care of the flock and the fulfillment of Scripture's "one-another" commands. Here such things as spiritual gifts, relationships, prayer, mercy ministry, accountability and genuine transformation can blossom and flourish. It is our goal to become a church of small groups rather than a church with small groups.
7) Worship
RPC is committed to worship that in God-centered, Christ-exalting, and Word-focused. Thus we strive for worship that encourages awe, reverence, joy, and intimacy. Reverence and awe do not exclude the expression of joy and emotion. True worship will engage the whole person, mind and emotions, resulting in renewed passion for Christ. We express our connection to the past and our relation to the present through musical diversity and through the use of historic creeds and confessions.
8) Family, Children, and Youth
From infancy, our children and youth must be considered a part of the church and our first mission field. By word and example, we lovingly seek to enfold them into the knowledge of God so that they might personally know his grace and forgiveness. Our youth are valued as an essential part of the church and are nurtured and challenged to be an effective part of our ministry.
9) Larger Christian Community
We are connected, regionally and nationally, to a larger body of churches, called the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), for the purposes of accountability and support. It is our goal to cooperate locally in meaningful ways with other churches and organizations to further God's kingdom in our communities.
10) Culture and Society
As the body of Christ, we are called to be both prophets and priests to our culture. As prophets, we are called to graciously speak the truth to our culture. As priests we are called to minister the truth to our culture with love and mercy.
11) Mercy Ministry
We are called to represent nothing less than the love of Christ to our community. Just as Jesus consistently ministered to the whole person, spiritually and physically, we seek to minister Christ's love to neighbors. We do this through tangible deeds of mercy with the hope of building bridges to Christ.
12) Mission to the World
God commands us to reach all peoples of the world with the good news of his Grace. RPC seeks to accomplish this by prayerfully and financially supporting strategic mission works and by sending out from our local body individuals and teams for short and long-term missions.