Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church 26550 Evergreen Rd.
Southfield, MI 48076
248.356.3932
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Our Beliefs

At Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church (among other teachings of Scripture) we confess these things together:

  1. The One true God, consisting of three persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—in perfect unity and in all their attributes equally God.
  2. The Bible as entirely God-given and, therefore without any faults or errors. That the Bible is the only Word of God and that it alone is the absolute and final authority in all matters of faith and life.
  3. The sinfulness and guilt of all men before God—as a result of Adam’s fall—and their total inability to please God, of themselves, or to meet the demands of His Holy Law, leaving them justly liable to everlasting punishment in hell.
  4. The choice of all those whom God would save before the creation of the world. That God the Father gave them to His Son eternally, the Son lived and died for them all, and only for them, to take away their sins, securing their eternal salvation, and the Holy Spirit infallibly brings that salvation to them by raising them from death to life and granting them saving faith in Christ.
  5. The righteousness of Jesus Christ—God in our nature—as the only righteousness which met the demands of God’s law for all who believe in Him. That salvation is the gracious gift of God by which He alone imputes that righteousness of Christ to men, through the sole instrument of faith in Christ, which is also a gracious gift
  6. The necessity of being born again by the Holy Spirit, enabling us to believe in Christ and to have His righteousness credited to our account.
  7. The eternal security of those who are true believers.
  8. The necessity of personal holiness as defined only by the commandments of God. The commandments of God are the outworking of the principles found in all of the Ten Commandments (and are further summarized by our Lord in the requirements to love God with our whole hearts and to love our neighbors as ourselves).
  9. The physical resurrection of Christ from the dead, His ascension into heaven and His future physical return to judge the world. That all those who are Christ's will, in that final day, be raised from the grave to be with Him forever, and the others will be consigned under the wrath of God in hell for eternity.
  10. The principle that nothing should be introduced into the public worship of God except what is commanded by God in His Word.
  11. The necessity of freely proclaiming to all men the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the only hope for a lost world.
  12. That Jesus Christ is Covenant Lord in every area of life, individual, family and state, and that all are responsible before Him to submit to Him and together to advance His Kingdom on earth.

Vision

The Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church strives to always preach the whole counsel of God’s Word, teach the historic Christian truth presented in the Bible and proclaimed by the Reformation, worship God according to His Word, grow in holiness, love and fellowship together, serve His people as individuals and families, as well as the greater community, and seek the growth, prosperity and unity of the Church of Christ around the world by bearing witness to the Him as the only Lord and Savior.

Standards

We believe that God desires His Church to set forth clear statements of her system of doctrine that can be supported from Scripture. We therefore accept as our creed, or subordinate standards, the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. In addition to these doctrinal statements, we adhere to the Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, which is our continuing application of God’s written word to the world and the church of today.

Reformed Theology and Worship

We believe that God’s Word clearly sets forth how He is to be worshiped. The reading and exposition of the Word of God are the central focus of our worship. Our musical praise employs God’s Word only, making use of only the divinely inspired Book of Psalms of the Bible. The Psalters we use are The Book of Psalms for Worship (2009) and The Book of Psalms for Singing (1973). They are translations of the book of Psalms, based on the original languages, and set to tunes suitable for congregational singing. In keeping with the New Testament Church’s directive for heart worship and simplicity, we sing a capella—that is, without the aid of any musical instruments.

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