Covenant
Presbyterian PCA – Who are we?
Covenant
Presbyterian Church, PCA, is a congregation of the Presbyterian
Church in America. As a PCA church we are connected to all the
congregations in the PCA fellowship. We pool resources, meet
regularly to deliberate ministry issues, and we share the conviction
and commitment of all our sister congregations. Together we are:
Faithful to the Scriptures, True to the Reformed Faith, and
Obedient to the Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
Our
Statement of Faith, shared by all PCA churches is the Westminster
Confession of Faith and Catechisms (WCF). These are the system of
doctrine set forth in the Bible. The Westminster Standards, as they
are sometimes called, state the teachings of the Bible in a
systematic manner. For more than four centuries, many churches have
used WCF as their doctrinal standard. The Confession is not
infallible nor authoritative nor inspired by God. Holy Scriptures
alone are described in those terms.
For
our local Christian ministry in Tullahoma and the surrounding region,
we adopted 10 core
values to
guide us as we seek to minister to the people in our reach. They are
agreeable with the Bible and our statement of faith and were
prayerfully adopted by us and for us.
Our
vision is to glorify God by establishing a healthy congregation in
Tullahoma in order to reach the diverse population moving to and
residing in Tullahoma and the surrounding communities.
Our
aim is to live as a community glorying in the cross of Christ in our
worship, fellowship, mercy, and outreach.
We
are absolutely committed to the Bible as God’s infallible and
inerrant Word, the only source of knowledge concerning what we are to
believe and how we are to live.
We
believe that prayer is fundamental, rather than supplemental.
We
are confessional, connectional, Reformed, and evangelical.
Our
public worship is centered in God, gospel-proclaiming, creative,
affectionate, and balanced in attention to form and freedom.
We
strive to strengthen families and promote a community where the
Gospel produces life-changing relationships within our church family.
We
believe that there is one race of people - the human race - and that
all people are created in the image of God and that there is sanctity
in all human life.
We
are convinced that there is no one that God by His Spirit and through
the gospel cannot change.
We
are committed to the spread of the gospel through evangelism and the
multiplication of churches locally and abroad.