As God’s people we believe:

• The Bible to be God’s inspired and infallible Word and the only rule for faith and practice.
• In the triune God who has revealed himself as one God in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
• That all persons are sinners and cannot be restored in fellowship with God through any power of their own.
• That God in love sent his only Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for our sins; that Jesus rose from the dead; that he is our intercessor with the Father; and that he will return visible on the Last Day as the judge of all people.
• That God accepts all who repent of their sins; who believe that the redemptive work of Christ is the only basis for their salvation; and who embrace Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives.

Our worldview:

CREATION. We live in a created world. God made it and he made it well. There is beauty in our world and we need not fear or flee it. We can affirm the goodness of creation and participate in making our world better. Our world belongs to God, therefore it also belongs to us. Not only are we stewards of God’s good creation, we’re also heirs.

FALL. We live in a fallen world. There is pain and brokenness and evil in our world. All things are fallen and all things have been bent away from good. Because of this we are not surprised by all that is wrong in the world. We know God’s heart is grieved and we share in his sorrow, all the more so because of our culpability in the fall.

REDEMPTION. We live in a loved world. God has not abandoned our world because of its fall. God has not abandoned us because of our rebellion against him. Instead, God did something quite unexpected. He redoubled his overtures toward our world. Knowing that we could never pay for our sins, he sent his Son to pay the price for us.

What difference does it all make?

Here are some examples:

The doctrine of CREATION means there is no separation in the Christian life between the sacred and the ordinary. Going to work or school can be just as holy as going to church.

The doctrine of the FALL means that we can be patient and sober when things go against us. There is a resilience to our living.

The doctrine of REDEMPTION means that life is full of hope. Because all of creation is fallen, God made the reach of redemption as wide as all of creation. We long for the salvation of souls; we also long for justice in all the world.

WHAT WE BELIEVE
We embrace the historic Christian teaching of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone, and the authority of the God-inspired Bible as the rule and guide for our daily lives.

Peace is part of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA), a 150 year-old Protestant denomination that emphasizes the centrality of the Bible and the all-powerful care of God.

The word Reformed means that the church is aligned with that historic branch of Christianity called Presbyterian in Scotland and Reformed in continental Europe. The CRC has over 1,000 congregations in North America. Many Christians are familiar with the “Reformed” writers R.C. Sproul, Francis Schaeffer, John Stott, and D. James Kennedy.