ABOUT US

Origins

​​Our name, the English Reformed Church, is unique because it acknowledges that originally we were members of the Church of England in SA.  In 1984 we withdrew from that denomination to become the English Reformed Church and have followed what we believe to be the clear teaching of the Bible on the government and practice of the Church of Jesus Christ. We endeavor to follow the biblical maxim that the reformed church is always reforming. ​

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Reformed Commitment 

We hold wholeheartedly to the theology of the Reformers who rediscovered “the faith once delivered to the saints” and the practical application of Christian truth to everyday life by the Puritans, seeking to glorify and enjoy God not only in Sunday worship but in every area of life. We are glad adhere to The Westminster Confession of Faith, its related Catechisms, and the Three Forms of Unity. They provide an excellent summary of biblical teaching, and establish our experimental and unashamed Calvinism. We are not innovators; we seek to preach the whole counsel of God to our dying world. Our sermons are mostly consecutive and applicatory expositions of God' Word so that he may be savingly known and glorified in and by his chosen people.

Many pressings issues arise in this 21st century; we are persuaded that proclaiming the Supremacy of Christ is God's answer to them all. "God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not counting their sins against them; and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation." All that we lost in Adam when he wilfully sinned in Eden, incurred God’s displeasure and plunged the whole human race into sin, misery and death, is more than recovered in Jesus Christ. Our Saviour's perfect life and substitutionary death provide complete atonement and righteousness. God's eternal and sovereign love has ensured that all who are joined to Christ by faith are cleansed from all their sins and clothed in his righteousness; a great salvation that cannot be merited in any way by any man.  His grace is sufficient; believers live by faith in the Son of God who loved us and gave himself for us, and by the gracious working of the Spirit of Christ we put our sins to death. Hallelujah! What a Saviour!    

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Objectives

​​We belong to Christ and so also to one of another; he has brought us together and we are a local expression of his body - he is the only Head.  Our duty and delight is to fulfill the Lord's desires and purposes. We must:

1. Meet for the regular worship of God, delighting in him through his Word and Sacraments, and in praise and in prayer.

2. Grow in the faith, and be conformed to the image of Christ so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ at last.

3. Take up the interests of God our Father, seeking first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.

4. Promote the wellbeing of all of Christ’s people; pray for the Church's mission and holiness, assisting his people to serve him by means of the bookshop and the theological college a the Lord enables us.

5. Bring the gospel to all those without Christ by preaching him, by the witness of our lives and with our mouths, and by means of tracts, books and online sermons.