Our

place in the

worldwide Christian Church...

We are an apostolic church.

We confess Jesus Christ and the faith of the

apostles as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. We

believe the authority of the Bible is supreme in all matters

of faith, doctrine, and conduct, and it is to be trusted. “Where is

it written?” was and is the Covenant’s touchstone of discussion with regard to faith and practice.

We are a catholic church.

The word catholic literally means universal. This means we understand ourselves to be a

part of the community of believers that began with Jesus’s first followers, is alive today, and

will continue until Christ comes again.

We are a Reformation church.

We stand in the mainstream of a church renewal movement of the sixteenth century called the Protestant

Reformation. Especially important is the belief that we are saved by God’s grace alone, through faith alone, not by anything that we can do. The Covenant Church is also shaped by Pietism, a renewal movement that originated in seventeenth-century Europe and emphasized the need for a life that is personally connected to Jesus Christ, a reliance on the Holy Spirit, and a call to service in the world.