Welcome friend,

It is with great excitement and anticipation that we warmly welcome you to Reformation Heritage Baptist Church.  At Reformation Heritage Baptist Church, you will experience the warmth of expository preaching and teaching that derives the sermon theme, principle headings, message contents, and applications from the Scripture text itself.  Our goal is to glorify and enjoy God, and equip our members in a thoroughly Biblical worldview by interpreting Scripture using Scripture and making application of Scripture to all of life.

We believe that healthy churches are a direct result of sound doctrine and love clearly taught and modeled in the church and home.  This means healthy doctrine produces healthy lives, and provides a practical means to addressing the problems we face in our homes, community and workplace.

We believe in a covenant context for our membership, which looks to one another to bear the burdens of our church ministry.  We believe every member is uniquely gifted to minister under the leadership of our elders, empowered by the Holy Spirit and equipped for every good work through the Word of God.

We are a fellowship committed to Scripture alone as the authoritative revelation of God.  We believe salvation is found in Christ alone, by grace alone through faith alone, revealed authoritatively in Scripture alone.

We invite you to visit soon.  Our elders are available to meet with you to discuss any concerns you may have in finding a church home.

We look forward to meeting you and for the opportunity to serve you and your family.

Servants of Jesus Christ,

The Elders

Reformation Heritage Baptist Church

Church Plant

In February 2008, we established a new church plant in Belmont, North Carolina in order to fill a gap in providing healthy Biblical teaching through healthy doctrine, and communicate it through expository preaching and teaching in the Reformed perspective.  We believe it was important to become a duly incorporated church, having filed our Articles of Incorporation with the State of North Carolina.  We believe in partnering with our sister churches in the Charlotte-Metropolitan area to provide accountability and support for the cause of the gospel as a domestic mission church.  We believe healthy churches encourage healthy families, and that healthy doctrine makes for healthy lives.  As a church plant, our members share in the tasks of a small and new church.

Southern Baptist

We are proud to be members of the Southern Baptist denomination, and identify with the wealth of theology of the founders of our denomination.  Our desire is to maintain our Southern Baptist affiliation while embracing our Reformed heritage upon which the Southern Baptist Convention was originally established in AD 1845.

Reformed Theology

We adhered to the rich heritage of Reformed theology, believing justification by Christ alone through grace and faith alone as the only basis for our salvation.  We are therefore Calvinistic and Covenantal in our theological perspective.  We believe Scripture alone provide us with the only inerrant and infallible authority of God; and Scripture interpreting Scripture provides us with our only infallible interpretation of Scripture.

Covenant Theology

We believe that the church exists in a context of covenant relationship with God, who has incorporated us into His family on the basis of His grace given through Jesus Christ.  We believe that God deals with all of mankind on the basis of covenanting with it.  Therefore, our covenant response to Him is either as covenant keepers or covenant breakers.  We further believe that the covenant of God’s grace teaches us that God has taken upon Himself all that is required for the salvation of His elect, and warrants their salvation by the Word of His power.        

Confessional Theology

By returning to the roots of our Southern Baptist Convention, we seek to maintain and adhere to an historical confessional statement.  We believe that it is the right of any ecclesiastical body to adopt a system of beliefs according to their conscience and understanding of the Scriptures.  Our congregation has adopted the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith as the summary statement of our belief.  We therefore affirm the following excellent uses for such a confession: The Confession serves as a summary of beliefs from which all preaching and instruction will be delivered, giving assurances that we will remain orthodox in our convictions. We do not, however, require any member, other than the officers of the church, to fully understand or adopt in full the Statement of Faith as their own. Hence, the Confession serves as a standard by which Reformation Heritage Baptist Church teaches doctrine.

Expository Teaching/Preaching

We employ the method of expository preaching and teaching believing that Scripture itself supplies us with a sermon’s main theme, principle headings, message content, and its central applications.  We believe verse by verse exposition to be our primary means of preaching and teaching.  However, we do make use of topical sermons and teachings in expository manner by deriving from the Bible’s own system of theology its comprehensive teachings on a particular topic - believing the Scripture itself provides us with the only true authoritative perspective for our thoughts, attitudes, motives, and emotions.  All of our teaching and preaching follows this methodology.

Missions/Evangelistic Oriented

We believe in furthering the cause of the Gospel through equipping, supporting, and involving ourselves and our resources in missions and evangelism.

Services

Worship

We meet weekly on Sunday mornings at 10AM for traditional worship services.  We adhere to the Puritan Regulative Principle of worship which means the Bible prescribes and teaches with clarity or by good and necessary inference all that belongs in the order and elements of worship.  We believe that God alone authoritatively sanctions how we are to worship Him.

Wednesday Nights

We provide more indepth doctrinal studies in our Wednesday evening services.  Our format is similar to college classes, in which we teach systematic theology and Biblical theology.

Friday Nights

We meet each week at an elder’s home at 8PM for informal teaching and theological discussions.  This is an informal and relaxed setting that provides us all opportunities to ask hard and difficult questions, discover applications for our doctrine in our homes, community, and workplaces, and/or simply listen to others who discuss such topics.

Having, as we trust, been brought by divine grace to repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and to give up ourselves to him, and having been baptized upon our profession of faith, in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, we do now, relying on His gracious aid, solemnly and joyfully renew our covenant with each other.

We will work and pray for the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

We will walk together in brotherly love, as becomes the members of a Christian Church, exercise an affectionate care and watchfulness over each other and faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require.

We will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, nor neglect to pray for ourselves and others.

We will endeavor to bring up such as may at any time be under our care, in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, and by a pure and loving example to seek the salvation of our family and friends.

We will rejoice at each other’s happiness and endeavor with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows.

We will seek, by Divine aid, to live carefully in the world, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and remembering that, as we have been voluntarily buried by baptism and raised again from the symbolic grave, so there is on us a special obligation now to lead a new and holy life.

We will work together for the continuance of a faithful evangelical ministry in this church, as we sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines. We will contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel through all nations.

We will, when we move from this place, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.

May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all. Amen.