Here are some answers to common questions we receieve. If you have questions about our service please email Pastor Hurd and he is always glad to answer your questions.
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What do you mean when you say Heritage Covenant Church is “a reformed Presbyterian Church?” Reformed from what? |
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To be reformed means one who, in Christian belief and practice, looks back to the beliefs and practices of the church reformers of the 1400 and 1500’s. Principal characters in the Reformation period were John Knox, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Urlich Zwingli who themselves were looking back to the early church fathers with a desire to correct the errors that had infiltrated the Roman Church of their time. To be reformed today, therefore, is to always be looking back with an eye for how the church should be growing in Christian fidelity today and tomorrow.
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Can anyone participate in the Lord’s Supper? |
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Any confessing and professing Christian believer and their children may participate with us in the Lord’s Supper unless there is evidence or knowledge of life or faith practice that is inconsistent with the Christian confession. |
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Christian believer and their children? Isn’t some kind of profession of faith required of young children before they take the Lord’s Supper? |
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How the sacraments of the Church, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, as popularly practiced within the Christian community, are administrated today reflects the extent of influence Rationalism and the Enlightenment period has played upon the Church the last 200 years or so. Today's individualism, expressed through Arminianism, has rushed through the doors opened by the Enlightenment replacing what our country was founded upon, historic and covenantal Calvinism.
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Why do you use real wine and leavened bread for the Lord’s Supper? |
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Pastor Gene Franklin wrote, “The imagery in the covenant meal is rich in pictures that will help us more deeply understand the grace and mercy of God. The elements themselves speak volumes to the love and generosity of God. Think of the bread, produced by the labor of many, as the result of the mercy of God in sunshine and rain, the miracle of the harvest, the image of the Kingdom of God in the leaven. The wine is always the symbol of joy and of the Holy Spirit, the richness of God’s blessing on the harvest.
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What is your position on who qualifies for Christian baptism? |
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We acknowledge all forms of baptism that are administered by a Christian Church in the name of the Triune God. Because Paul draws a comparison between the Old Testament practice of circumcision with the New Testament practice of water baptism (Col 2:11) and because Paul declares the children of at least one believing spouse to be holy (1 Cor 7:14), we believe that a covenant child should be baptized as soon as possible and an adult upon his profession of Christian faith. |
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