The brethren of this
congregation are covenantally bound to God and each
other by way of the greater, everlasting New Covenant of our Great
Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, and by lesser covenants made in
subservience to Him and in conjunction with the whole of God's Holy Scriptures.
We are
reformed in that
we not only hold to the faith of the Great Reformation, the same by
which our republic was founded, but we believe, as the great
reformers did, that God's people in every generation are to reform
all of their ways (marriage, government, education, economics, etc.)
to the Word of God in accordance with Christ's commission to the
Church that the nations be discipled and taught to love God by
keeping His Commandments (1 John 5:3).
We ascribe to the Three Forms of Unity
--- The Belgic Confession, The Canons of Dort, and Heidelberg
Catechism --- as our primary doctrinal standard, and the Westminster
Confession of Faith and all its catechisms as our secondary standard.