What We Believe
SCPC is a community of faith committed to God, caring for one another and communicating the gospel of Christ to the world. SCPC is a member of the Presbyterian Church in America, which was founded in 1973. The PCA is committed to the historic reformed doctrinal standards; and to the inspiration, inerrancy and authority of the Scriptures in all matters of faith and practice. The PCA has a confessional theology framed by the Westminster Confession of Faith that was commissioned by Parliament in 1643 and adopted by Scotland in 1647.
The PCA's representative form of church government is led by elders (presbyters) who are elected by church members. This form of government extends to the 77 regional presbyteries, and to the annual General Assembly. This connectional relationship among churches by their elected elders continues the historic church’s polity begun in Acts 15. That first assembly of elders in Jerusalem maintained the church’s doctrinal beliefs and provided unity in the body of Christ.
The PCA national office consists of four ministries:
Mission to the World, the PCA missionary sending agency has 600 foreign missionaries in 60 nations; and 160 chaplains in the military and in hospitals.
Mission to North America, which oversees our church planting efforts of over 100 churches a year.
Christian Education and Publications, which oversees our printing house, Great Commission Publications.
Reformed University Ministries, which is on over 100 college campuses.
Other PCA institutions include:
Ridge Haven, conference center in N. Carolina
Covenant College, a Christian liberal arts college located near Chattanooga, Tennessee
Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
- We are committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord of every part of our lives and to a Christian worldview that governs the way we live.
- We believe that the Bible is God's inerrant Word, and we accept the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms as being a summary of what the Bible teaches.
- "Reformed" defines the doctrinal beliefs of the Presbyterian Church in America(PCA), which hold that the purest forms of Scriptural doctrines are found in the Calvinist Creeds, particularly in the Westminster Confession of Faith.
For more information, visit our denominational website: www.pcanet.org
