We are the church, members of Christ’s covenant people.



 

 

He is God’s Anointed, the One through whom salvation has come. He lives in covenant with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit from all eternity; He is very God of very God. He took on human flesh as Jesus of Nazareth and so is God and man; two natures in one person. He lived, died, and rose again on the third day, to make all things new.




 

 
The covenant is the relationship of love that joins the three persons of God in a community of life. God created mankind to join Him in this relationship of love, fellowship, and joy. The Father calls us to live in covenant with Him, through the work of Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit.
 

 
Christ Covenant Church is one of many local expressions of the catholic (or universal) body of Christ.
 

 
 
By what God has done, is doing, and promises yet to do. We have been regenerated and renewed by the Spirit in covenant with Christ. We are being sanctified, formed into the people God wants us to be according to the Spirit in covenant with Christ. We will be perfected, glorified with Christ in an eternal covenant relationship.
 

 
 
In baptism, God joins the believer to His church and so enters into covenant relationship with him. The church’s relationship with God is so intimate that the Bible calls us the body and bride of Christ. We are God’s new humanity, an outpost of heaven on earth.
 

 
 
The Lord Jesus Christ rules over all creation for the sake of the church (Eph. 1:22-23), and the church in turn exists for the sake of ministering Christ to the world. God serves His church; this service centres on His gracious action each Lord’s Day when He draws His people into His presence to strengthen them in covenant life. This gathering may be called the Divine Service. We meet on the first day of each week, because that is the day God raised our Lord Jesus from the dead, giving the world a new beginning.
 

 
 
The Triune God serves the congregation in calling, cleansing, consecration, communion, and commissioning.

First,
God calls His people out of the world. We are called to turn away from sin, which is our natural lifestyle. We are called to turn away from our ties to Adam, our first father, who brought us under sentence of death through sin. We are called to turn away from our modern social order, which vainly seeks life without God.

Second,
God calls us to confess our sins as we look to Him for forgiveness. God declares that we are cleansed of sin by Jesus Christ’s offering of Himself for us. We respond by worshipping Him with singing and declarations of our faith in Him.

Third,
God consecrates us to His service as He proclaims the life-giving gospel to us by speaking His Word in Bible reading and preaching.

Fourth,
God graciously feeds us at His communion table. We partake of the body and blood of Jesus Christ as we eat bread and drink wine in the Eucharist. Our oneness as His chosen people is manifested in this corporate meal.

Fifth, God commissions us, sending us out into the world with His blessing so that we might be a blessing to others as we carry His gospel to them.

The above five-fold reality sets the pattern for our worship service every Sunday morning.
 

 
 
God commissions the church to declare the gospel to the world. We proclaim that Jesus Christ’s death has paid for forgiveness of sins for all who believe, and that Jesus Christ is now King of kings and Lord of lords. The church is God’s new social order of humanity. As we show hospitality, generosity to the needy, and practical outreach, we engage in God’s work of dominion. This work of dominion may take many forms. As we carry out our mission to be the servant-leader of our culture, to live as the body of Christ—indeed, the broken body of Christ—for the world, we will find God using us to transform the culture and make His kingdom more and more manifest.
 

 
 
Yes. We are connected to the church of all ages. We hold to the faith “which was once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). We demonstrate our bond to the historical church by our use of her creeds, liturgy, and practices.
 

 
 
Yes. As reformational Christians, we seek to be ever-reforming by continually submitting to the Holy Spirit. As Biblical Christians, we seek to be ever conforming to our Lord’s written Word. The church, as the body of the eternal Son of God, must recognize its historical roots as well as its future goal. Our goal doesn’t change, but we keep getting a better view of it as we move toward it.
 

 
 
We believe that God is continuing to mature his church “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 4:13). Throughout Scripture, God’s redeeming work includes the children of his people. This means we baptize our children and fully include them in the life of our church body; and it also means we do everything with a view to the generations to come. Thus, our vision must be long-term. It ultimately concerns not just worship and ministry to the present, but building for the future, for the re-establishment of a Christian civilization, for the rebirth of Christendom in all its glory, when Christ’s lordship over every inch of creation and every second of time is acknowledged.
 


 
We invite you to join us as we celebrate salvation together. If you have any questions about our congregation, desire information on how to have a saving relationship with God through Christ Jesus, or would like a visit, please contact our Pastor, Garry Vanderveen, at 778-278-1662 or through E-mail.