"So what is a Reformed Church?" you may be asking. Although we would prefer not to have any "labels" at all, to be known only as a biblical church, we do recognize that in a culture that extensively uses labels, it is merely impossible to accurately communicate who we are without some identifying terms. In fact, every church faces this problem.

People will perceive, whether accurate or not, ideas about a church based on its "terms" of description or identifying "labels." So Christ Reformed Church has chosen to use certain "labels" to help communicate who it is to aid others in discerning the biblical character of the ministry. One term that helps describe our ministry is the term “reformed.”

We are a reformed church in that we identify with the teachings of Christ and His apostles that were recaptured at the time of the Protestant Reformation. The key doctrines of the Reformation were articulated in the Westminster Standards and summarized in the following five Latin slogans:

• SOLA SCRIPTURA (Scripture Alone) - the Scripture alone is our final authority in every area of life, because it is the Word of God;

• SOLA CHRISTI (Christ Alone) - Christ alone, in His perfect life and atoning death in the sinner’s place, is the basis for our acceptance;

• SOLA GRATIA (Grace Alone) - the grace of God alone in Christ, not human effort, is how God saves sinners;

• SOLA FIDE (Faith Alone) - faith alone in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ apart from our works of righteousness or human merit is the means by which sinners receive or appropriate this grace of God; and

• SOLA DEO GLORIA (To God Alone be the Glory) - for saving sinners and for everything else in this life and the life to come, eternal.