| CLEAR IN PURPOSE: In the next few minutes we'd like to take� this oportunity to for you to get to know us better.� Our purpose is simple: --- to bring glory to God though our church and individual lives. --- to make known to our comunity and beyond the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. COMMITED TO GOD: We are called to demonstrate the love of God and the relevance of Christ's message of deliverance to a society that is weary� of sin.� We enjoy meeting together� to worship� our Creator and Redeemer.� In worship, God's people adore Him, bring� Him thanks, ask for His help and receive the blessing of His presence.� Through the preaching of the gospel, God� announces his saving acts and calls people to believing and obedient response to His Word. GROUNDED IN SCRIPTURE: The twentieth century has witnessed the progressive rejection of authority.� However, we believe God's Word, the Bible is the authoritative Word of God, the only infallible rule for our faith and conduct.� We believe that the Bible alone gives us the correct knowledge of who God is and how we may please him.� It teaches that God the Father gave up His Son Jesus Christ to death on the cross to pay the penalty for the sins of His people.� We want to share with you the joy that comes from a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ. PRESBYTERIAN IN CHARACTER: Belief.� Our church is not new.� We trace our historic roots to the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation and its seventeenth-century doctrinal statement, the Wesminister Confession of Faith, together with its Larger and Shorter Catechism.� Our denomination understands the importance of defending and maintaining the truths of God's Word.� In fact, in 1936 The Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) was established as a testimony to the Bible when its authority was denied.� Our minister, elders and deacons sincerely recieve and adopt these Westminster Standards as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures and known as the Reformed faith. GOVERNMENT: From the time of Abraham in the Old Testament, God's church has been led by wise elders, men gifted by God and called to govern his church.� The word presbyterian comes from the New Testament Greek word presbeuteros, meaning elder.� Harrisville Orthodox Presbyterian Church follows this Biblical pattern for church government.� Our elders along with our pastor form a session to care for the spiritual welfare of our members.� Matters of a common concern for church in a region,� such as establishing new congregations and ordaining ministers, are regulated by a body of ministers and elders called a presbyteries.� Annually, representatives of our denomination's twelve presbyteries form a general assembly to give the whole Church direction and advice. WHY THE NAME ORTHODOX? Everyone knows that an orthodontist is concerned about straight teeth. Th ortho in orthodontist comes from the Greek word straight. The dox in orthodox comes from the Greek word for thinking. So, in an Orthodox Presbyterian Church you will find straight teaching following the long accepted pattern given in the Bible. We are a church that believes what the Bible says and we try to put it into practice. TAKE THE NEXT STEP: If you are looking for a church that..........honors God as the sovereign Lord of the universe, lives by the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, insists upon the absolute authority of God's Word.......we invite you to join us in glorifying God through the worship, work, and witness of THE CALVARY ORTHODOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN HARRISVILLE PENNSYLVANIA. |
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