What We Believe

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Sunday - 9:30 am Sunday School, 10:30 am Worship Service. 1st, 3rd Wednesdays, 6:30 pm Men & Women's Bible Studies. 2nd, 4th, 5th Wednesdays, 6:30 pm Prayer Meeting. Live-streamed worship services: YouTube and recorded sermons: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgkcuv9Y5ME2r5g0hKrd8dw .

Harvest Church Core Beliefs

Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God:

That the 66 books of the Old and New Testament were inspired by the Spirit of God as originally written.
That the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and conduct.

God

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Jesus Christ

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of our Lord Jesus Christ:

In His eternal existence, with the Father in pre-incarnate glory.
In His work of creation, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death and bodily resurrection.
In His triumphant ascension, mediatorial ministry and personal return.

The Holy Spirit

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and in the personality of the Holy Spirit:

Who convinces of sin, of righteousness and of judgment.
Who regenerates, indwells, seals, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.
Who baptizes believers at conversion into the Body of Christ and bestows upon them His gifts sovereignly as He wills and fills those yielded to Him.

Mankind

We believe that Adam was divinely created in the image of God:

That by the sin of disobedience he fell from that state.
That all his posterity inherited spiritual depravity and defilement.
That all men therefore are guilty before God and condemned to physical and spiritual death.

Salvation

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign grace of God:

That by the Father, Jesus Christ voluntarily suffered a propitiatory death.
That justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and ultimately perfected in the image of the Lord.

What does it mean to be reformed?

Harvest Church is a reformed church. This means we are committed to the five solas of the Reformation, and are Calvinistic, covenantal, and confessional.

Commitment To The Five Solas.

The five solas are five Latin phrases popularized during the Protestant Reformation that emphasized the distinctions between the early Reformers and the Roman Catholic Church. The word sola, Latin for “only,” is used in relation to five key teachings that define the biblical pleas of Reformation Protestants. Each sola remains relevant to this day. The five solas are

1. Sola scriptura: “Scripture alone” - emphasizes that the Bible, God's holy Word, is the Christian's sole source of authority.
2. Sola fide: “Faith alone” - emphasizes salvation as God's free gift to all who accept it by faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, and is never based on any human effort or good deeds.
3. Sola gratia: “Grace alone” - emphasizes God's grace as the reason for our salvation. Salvation comes from what God has done rather than what we do.
4. Solo Christo: “Christ alone” - (sometimes listed as Solus Christus, “through Christ alone”) emphasizes the role of Jesus Christ in our salvation. Jesus Christ is the only One Who offers access to God.
5. Soli Deo gloria: “To the glory of God alone” - emphasizes that the goal of life is to bring glory to God.

Calvinistic.

Harvest Church holds a Calvinistic view of salvation, believing it is God's miraculous work that transforms a person's heart from complete rebellion against Him to trusting in Him through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ, for salvation.

Covenantal.

Harvest Church teaches covenantal theology, meaning God has always related to His people according to a covenant, from the beginning of time to the present day.

Confessional.

As a "confessional church," Harvest Church holds to the WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH, an historical confession of the Christian faith written as a summary of the doctrines taught in Scripture. Theologically sound, this Confession does not replace the Bible's absolute authority, but instead provides standards of doctrine, church government and worship that largely define Presbyterianism.

Learn more about our Denomination

Harvest Church is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) which means we are connected in both oversight and ministry with other sister churches across the US working collectively toward loving our communities in Jesus' name more fully.

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