Reformed Presbyterian Church Of North America
Fulton, NY

Reformed Doctrine
We at Reformed Presbyterian Church believe in the vital doctrines of the Reformation period of the sixteenth century. Those essentials were "scripture alone," "Christ alone," "grace alone," "faith alone," and " to God alone be glory." It was the word "alone" that brought Rome and the Reformers into conflict. The Reformers emphasized that the Scriptures is the only ultimate authority in faith and practice. When it came to the foundation doctrine of Justification they placed great stress on the gift of faith whereby the sinner would be found righteous. The central message of the Bible is that we are saved from God’s wrath by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone to the glory of God alone.

Our Theological and Doctrinal standard is the Westminster Confession Of Faith adopted in 1648. We are a Confessional church and therefore know what it is that we believe and need not have any debate with our peers as to what we should or must believe. The Westminster Confession is very comprehensive and detailed, it is determined to be faithful to the Bible and it is systematically written. It starts with Holy Scriptures, which immediately places the Confession subservient to the Bible. The next subject of priority is the attributes of God which are listed as incommunicable attributes pertaining only to Him. Attributes such as Infinity, Invisibility and Incomprehensibility. The Confessional standards display all the crucial doctrines pertaining to God and Man.

Our worship practice has historic roots in the Reformation as well, where the church’s song book is the inspired books of Psalms. We believe in the regulative principle of worship, essentially stated is to worship God in no other way than what the Scriptures prescribe. We worship the Triune God mediated by the Lord Jesus Christ. Human worship as found in the Scriptures is repugnant to God. (Gen.4:1-5, Lev.10:1-3, Num.16; I Sam.13) The Westminster Assembly address itself to the task of framing a directory for worship. It found the singing of Psalms without instrumental music though the saints do praise God with the ‘Strings’ of their hearts and do sing with the "fruit of their lips" (Eph.5:19, Heb.13:15)


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