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The Mission Statement of Christ the King Reformed Episcopal Church
The mission of Christ the King Reformed Episcopal Church is to preserve, teach, and live the historic Christian faith in communion with other branches of Christ’s Church to advance His Kingdom in all the earth.
The Mission Statement of the Reformed Episcopal Church
Built upon the foundation of the authoritative Word of God, the Holy
Scriptures, the Reformed Episcopal Church declares her first priority to
be that of evangelism, the bold and unadulterated proclamation of
salvation by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 8:4). In
keeping the faith once delivered to the saints, the Reformed Episcopal
Church, however, does not believe evangelism to be the end, but rather the
beginning of her divinely given vocation. Thus, she is deeply committed
to discipleship, the work of training evangelized men and women
in Christian living (St. Matthew 28:20). This inescapably means that the
Reformed Episcopal Church sets a high priority on biblical worship.
When the Gospel is truly proclaimed and the mercies of God are made
known, redeemed men and women must be led to offer their bodies as a
living sacrifice, which is their spiritual service of worship (Romans
12:1). Thus, the Reformed Episcopal Church understands the Christian life
to be necessarily corporate. The Gospel call of salvation is not only to
a Savior, but also to a community of those who have been saved (I
Cor. 12:27), which community, being indwelt by Christ's Spirit, transcends
both temporal and geographic bounds. Therefore, the Reformed Episcopal
Church is creedal, following the historic Christian faith as it
was affirmed by the early undivided Church in the Apostles' (A.D. 150)
and Nicene Creeds (A.D. 325), sacramental, practicing the divinely
ordained sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper as outward and
visible signs of His inward and spiritual grace, confessional,
accepting the doctrines and practices of the English Reformation as found
in the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and episcopal, finding
unity with the Church of the earliest Christian eras through submission
to the government of godly bishops. In this fashion, by embracing the
broad base of doctrine and practice inherent in the historic Church
of the Reformation, the Reformed Episcopal Church has a foundation for
effective ministry in the name of Christ to a world which is lost and
dying without Him.
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