Our beliefs at Christ the King Presbyterian Church are those that we find in the Bible. It is our final authority for all matters of faith and life. We respect tradition and the role of human reason. But in the end, the Bible alone is the only “infallible rule of faith and practice,” as Presbyterians have always said. Much of what we believe may be explained through our name.

1. "Christ the King"

We are a church of our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords (1 Tim 6:15). We identify with the church catholic (universal), believing what all Christians in every place and in all times have believed (1 Cor 1:2), the faith “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). This faith, orthodox, Trinitarian Christianity, is summarized in the Apostles Creed and is believed by Protestants, Roman Catholics, and Greek Orthodox.

2. "Presbyterian"

We are a Presbyterian church. This means two things:

a. We are a Protestant church. Like other Protestants (Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Episcopalians, Pentecostals, Lutherans) we believe in the five solas by which the gospel message was summarized at the time of the Reformation, and which continue to be helpful today. We believe that salvation is to be found: 

• Sola Fide – by faith alone (and not works)
• Sola Gratia – by grace alone (and not what we earn)
• Solo Christo – through Christ alone (and not through priests, churches, or saints)
• Sola Scriptura – in Scripture alone (and not some other book or tradition)
• Soli Deo Gloria – all to the Glory of God alone
  

There is much about which Protestants disagree amongst themselves
(e.g. baptism, communion, church government). But we rejoice in the substantial agreement which we enjoy: the orthodox doctrines of the Apostles Creed and the solas of the Protestant Reformation. 

b. We are a Reformed church. This means that our doctrines are Calvinistic, summarized in the Westminster Confession of Faith and its Shorter and Larger Catechisms. Sometimes referred to as the “doctrines of grace,” these convictions shape our outlook on all of Christian life and living.

• Our worship is Reformed, governed by the regulative principle of worship. We only do in worship that which God Himself commands in His word, or, to put it more concretely: in worship we read and preach the Bible, sing the Bible, and pray the Bible. Our worship is simple, spiritual, and reverent.
• Our form of church government is presbyterian. The word presbyterian is derived from the Greek word for elder, indicating a representative form of church government in which the people elect elders who exercise godly leadership.
• Our ethics are Reformed, giving to the law of God its proper place (in the context of salvation by grace) as a guide for Christian living. This “third use of the law,” as it has been called by Calvinists, has given the Puritan and Presbyterian heritage to which we belong a moral rigor and integrity that has been admired by the generations.
  

Thus we are catholic, Protestant and Reformed in our beliefs and practices. We embrace the best of the universal church, while enthusiastically practicing the distinctives of the heritage of Reformed Protestantism.