The Faith We Confess
Christianity is not a set of rules or a program for self-improvement. It begins with God making Himself known by His grace — not with what we do for Him, but with what He has done for us.
The Christian faith is the true account of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration — the work of the Triune God to redeem a people for Himself. This is the faith we confess and the hope we stake our lives upon.
We are a confessional Presbyterian congregation in the PCA, holding to the historic Christian faith expressed in the great ecumenical creeds and summarized in the Westminster Standards. These confessions help us articulate what Scripture teaches and what the church has confessed through the centuries.
Read the Westminster StandardsOur Comfort in Life & Death
This is our comfort in life and death: that we belong to Jesus Christ and that our salvation rests not in our strength, but in His grace.
The Christian faith tells us what is true about God, ourselves, and the world we live in. Before it asks anything of us, it announces good news — the story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, and all that God has done to redeem a people for Himself.
Made for God’s Glory
God made the heavens and the earth, and all that He made was good. He created us in His own image, with purpose and dignity — to know Him, enjoy Him, and reflect His goodness throughout the world. We were made for fellowship with God and with one another, at home in a world ordered by His wisdom and love.
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
Separated From God by Sin
Yet we turned from God. Though given everything, our first parents disobeyed God. Through Adam's sin, our fellowship with God was broken, our relationships with one another were fractured, and creation itself was brought under the curse of sin and death.
We experience a world with sin and misery every day, and we cannot repair or atone for it on our own. Our deepest need is not simply improvement, but redemption.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned — every one — to his own way.
Saved by God’s Grace
But God did not abandon us in our sin. God, in His grace, came down to us. In Jesus Christ — fully God and fully man — He lived the perfect life we could never live, died the death we deserved, and rose from the grave victorious over sin and death.
We did not reach up to God; He reached down to us. This is the heart of the gospel — a rescue accomplished entirely by Christ, received by faith and never earned.
In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them.
Renewed by God’s Promise
Everyone who turns from sin and trusts in Christ is forgiven, adopted as God’s child, and given new life through His Spirit. The work of restoration has already begun, and God will faithfully bring it to completion.
One day Christ will return and make all things new — every wrong made right, every tear wiped away, and all creation restored in His glory. This is good news, not good advice: not what we must do for God, but what God has done for us.
Behold, I am making all things new.
We believe these things about the gospel and our salvation.
And we believe the local church is where God places His gifts and graces here on earth.
Christ Makes a People
When God saves us, He does not leave us alone. He gathers us into a people. The church is not an accessory to the Christian life or something we add once our faith is established — it is the family of God into which we are brought, the body of Christ to which we belong, and the place where God continues to form us by His grace.
The Christian life is not meant to be lived in isolation. God grows His people through ordinary means: gathering together each Lord’s Day, hearing His Word, receiving His gifts, praying for one another, bearing one another’s burdens, confessing our sins, and extending grace as we have received grace.
Through the life of the local church, the gospel takes root — not only in what we believe, but in how we love, serve, and walk together.
We were not made to follow Christ alone. We were made to belong to Him and to one another.
What It Looks Like to Belong Here
You do not need the right vocabulary, the right background, or a perfectly ordered life to belong here. We are a people being formed by the grace of Christ — learning to love the things He loves and to love one another.
Belonging here takes shape in the ordinary rhythms we share: gathering each Lord’s Day, sharing meals, opening our homes, praying for one another, serving one another’s needs, and bearing one another’s joys and burdens.
Under the Word
God gathers His people around His Word. We grow as we sit together week by week under the preaching of Scripture, and as we read it, pray it, and live it together in our homes and around our tables.
With One Another
Christ does not call us to follow Him alone. To be a member of a local church is to commit ourselves to one another — to be known and to know others, to carry burdens and share joys, and to walk together in the grace of Christ.
To Make Christ Known
The same grace that found us does not leave us unchanged. It turns us outward — toward our neighbors, toward acts of mercy and love, and toward proclaiming the good news of Christ to the ends of the earth.
The King’s Gifts With His People.
Christ has one Church across every age and nation. Christ the King is our local outpost of it here in North Orlando — called to worship Him, receive His gifts, and make His grace known until He gathers His people from every tribe and tongue.