Beliefs
Our Mission
Our mission at Christ the Redeemer Church is summed up by the phrase “all of Christ for all of life.” Under the grace of God, this means that our desire is to make Troy a Christian town through faithful and robust covenant renewal worship on the Lord’s Day, through proclamation of the gospel to unbelievers, while training additional evangelists who will continue proclaiming that gospel, through teaching men and women how to live together in harmonious Christian marriage, through establishing a family-friendly culture of Christian education in which well-loved and well-disciplined children will learn to stay the course, through outreach that brings people to church, accommodating them where they are while seeking to bring them into maturity in a structured way, through genuine cultural engagement that provides Christian leadership in the arts, in business, in education, in politics, and in literature, and through a regular series of church plants on the Palouse as we have gifted, trained and ordained men, willing congregants, adequate resources, and available facilities. And we seek to do all of this in gladness and simplicity of heart, as we pursue love for God and love for our neighbor.
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Our Book of Confessions include: Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Definition of Chalcedon, Westminster Confession of Faith (1646), Westminster Shorter Catechism, and the Three Forms of Unity.
Our various creeds and confessions express an important part of who we are as a church. We confess and believe together with our fathers in the faith and our brothers throughout the world. We are baptized into their company as members of the same body, the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with them we eat from a common loaf and drink from a common cup. Their creed is our creed, even as their life is our life—one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. The elders of King's Cross Church therefore subscribe to these creeds and confessions, holding them to be a faithful witness to what the Scriptures teach, and as a means of identifying with the broader Church.
We hold to the ancient creeds as defining the faith once delivered to the saints, and we hold that no one rejecting the truths proclaimed in these creeds can be right with God.
We hold to the distinctive truths of our reformational confessions, knowing that many faithful Christians have differed with portions of these confessions. We confess our view that these confessions faithfully represent Scripture, but we do this, not as a means of dividing from Christians who differ, but rather to make a faithful and charitable testimony of what we believe Scripture to teach. These confessions represent the understanding of our church officers, and are not binding on the members of our church. They do represent the system of doctrine that our members can expect to be taught to them.
We therefore approve the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism for use in doctrinal accountability for officers of the church, as well as the Heidelberg Catechism. To preserve clear accountability for our officers, our confessions should be construed to harmonize wherever possible, but in areas where they cannot be harmonized, we defer to language of the 1646 Westminster Confession of Faith. For this reason, we declare our exceptions to that confession only. Our exceptions are listed in the Book of Procedures.