A Reformed Baptist is a confessional Christian who wholeheartedly subscribes to the Second London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689, embracing its robust, covenantal, Calvinistic theology. This includes a distinctly Baptist covenant theology that sees the New Covenant as entirely new, not a mere administration of the Covenant of Grace, thus restricting its membership to the regenerate and requiring believer’s baptism. Reformed Baptists affirm the Five Solas of the Reformation, the doctrines of grace, and practice the regulative principle of worship, insisting that only what is commanded in Scripture is permitted in public worship. Ecclesiologically, they believe that Christ rules His churches through the Word, by the Spirit, through elders, with the final authority vested in the gathered membership**. A Reformed Baptist is not merely a Calvinistic Baptist, but one who confesses a full-orbed, historic, and covenantally consistent theology rooted in the 1689 Confession, committed to the purity of doctrine, worship, and church life.

**At Heritage we call this being elder led and congregationally governed

We are a confessional church . That means that our statement of faith is the 1689 London Baptist Confession.
In short, it means we hold to the absolute authority of Scripture, the centrality of God, the sovereignty of grace, the primacy of preaching (expository), and the regulative principle of worship.

We worship God the Father, Son, and Spirit together through the preaching and receiving of the gospel from the Bible, singing, praying, taking the Lord’s Supper, observing Baptism as the outward sign of faith in Jesus, as well as the giving of our finances to fuel the mission of Jesus’ church.

We are a church the prizes and prioritizes expository preaching. In expository preaching, the God-breathed Biblical text is the slave master that dictates and decides what the preacher is to deliver to God’s people from the pulpit. That is to say, the point of the message preached is derived explicitly from the careful examination and correct interpretation of the selected text itself, with all things considered; the historical, grammatical, literary, and doctrinal contexts, etc. More than that, expository preaching seeks to clearly, accurately, and plainly, expose, expound, illustrate, and apply that text to demonstrate and herald the necessity, relevancy, and efficacy of the truth extracted in such a way that God’s people are stirred in their affections and invoked to respond in both faith and obedience to Christ. In short, expository preaching is God’s man urgently and emphatically preaching God’s message by the power of His Spirit for His glory and honor and the good of His people.

In addition to gathering for worship every Sunday, we have Fellowship Groups that typically meet at least once per week. If the local church is like a family, the Sunday gathering is like a family reunion and Fellowship Groups are like an immediate family. Each week we gather in these smaller groups to share a meal, pray, study the Bible, discuss the previous week’s sermon, and generally seek one another’s good. To get plugged in to a Fellowship Group, come to a worship gathering, email [email protected], or call us!

The family integrated church is one intentionally designed to eliminate unnecessary age-segregated structures from the church’s ministry. Children typically attend all of the corporate worship gatherings with their parents rather than attending a separate children’s ministry or, in some cases, even a nursery.

We share the Gospel publicly and often.