Beliefs

What is our purpose?

By God’s grace and all for His glory, Christ the King exists to worship God, grow in our union with Christ and extend God’s Kingdom in Roanoke and beyond. The worship of the living God is the end of all of creation. We were designed to worship God. As a church, therefore, we exist to produce worshipers: people who see God rightly and savor God truly in every area of life. In order for this to happen, however, two things must occur: people must be rightly related to God and growing in relationship to Him. The key to establishing this growing relationship is the Gospel of grace. The Gospel is both: God’s mercy reconciling sinners to Himself and His redeeming power that restores every aspect of life. As a church we are committed to creating Gospel-centered avenues of ministry, which encourage real transformational growth. What does this produce, you ask? When people’s lives soften towards God through the Gospel’s power, they immediately begin to soften towards the people around them. As a result, they become Kingdom-extending agents, liberated by the Gospel to serve and engage the world around them with the life-changing hope of Christ.

Our Foundational Commitments

The absolute authority of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice.
A commitment to the historic Reformed Faith as expressed in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms of the Presbyterian Church in America, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.
The Church exists to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. The great end point of the church and all of his history is the glory of God.
The Gospel of Grace, revealed in the person and work of Jesus Christ, is alone the life-giving, transformative power, which creates, grows and finally brings the Church to her fulfillment and the purpose of her existence.