CHRIST THE KING Anglican Fellowship is a mission work of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
Having received the Christian faith and ministry from the Apostles through an English and Reformational heritage, we are committed to making disciples for Jesus Christ in the Anglican Way, by continuing in the Apostles teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers entrusted to us. We value biblical-orthodoxy, reformed-catholicity and Christ-centered-ministry; and we aim to gather, encourage and equip Christ-followers to proclaim Christ and to pursue God’s Kingdom.
Having received the Christian faith and ministry from the Apostles through an English and Reformational heritage, we are committed to making disciples for Jesus Christ in the Anglican Way, by continuing in the Apostles teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers entrusted to us. We value biblical-orthodoxy, reformed-catholicity and Christ-centered-ministry; and we aim to gather, encourage and equip Christ-followers to proclaim Christ and to pursue God’s Kingdom.
Our Vision is to be a faithful Christian community, filled with Holy Spirit and zealous for good works.
Our Mission is to boldly proclaim Christ, pursue God's Kingdom and make disciples for Jesus Christ.
Our Strategy and Commitment Is to walk in the Anglican Way, by continuing in the apostles teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers entrusted to us.
Our Values include biblical-orthodoxy, reformed-catholicity and Christ-centered-ministry.
Our Distinctives include being apostolic, biblical, liturgical, traditional, conservative, covenantal, family-integrated and Anglican.
Our Theology is both catholic and reformed, being summarized in the ancient creeds of the undivided church, stated in the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion, and applied for worship and church order in the Book of Common Prayer (REC 2005) and the REC Ordinal.
Our Association with Christ's one, holy, catholic and apostolic church is by faith in Jesus Christ, participation in the holy sacraments of baptism and communion, and connection with the Reformed Episcopal Church (diocese of Mid-America).
Our Location is on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in Southeast Louisiana; and we hope to gather members from St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes.
Our Meetings are at 203 N. Jefferson Ave in Covington, LA, in the Methodist Church building. Our traditional Holy Communion Service begins at 5 pm each Sunday in the Sanctuary, and lasts until about 6 or 6:15; and then participants are invited to gather in the parlor to enjoy a time of fellowship, refreshments, discussion and prayer requests until about 6:30.
Our Mission is to boldly proclaim Christ, pursue God's Kingdom and make disciples for Jesus Christ.
Our Strategy and Commitment Is to walk in the Anglican Way, by continuing in the apostles teaching, the fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers entrusted to us.
Our Values include biblical-orthodoxy, reformed-catholicity and Christ-centered-ministry.
Our Distinctives include being apostolic, biblical, liturgical, traditional, conservative, covenantal, family-integrated and Anglican.
Our Theology is both catholic and reformed, being summarized in the ancient creeds of the undivided church, stated in the Thirty Nine Articles of Religion, and applied for worship and church order in the Book of Common Prayer (REC 2005) and the REC Ordinal.
Our Association with Christ's one, holy, catholic and apostolic church is by faith in Jesus Christ, participation in the holy sacraments of baptism and communion, and connection with the Reformed Episcopal Church (diocese of Mid-America).
Our Location is on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in Southeast Louisiana; and we hope to gather members from St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington parishes.
Our Meetings are at 203 N. Jefferson Ave in Covington, LA, in the Methodist Church building. Our traditional Holy Communion Service begins at 5 pm each Sunday in the Sanctuary, and lasts until about 6 or 6:15; and then participants are invited to gather in the parlor to enjoy a time of fellowship, refreshments, discussion and prayer requests until about 6:30.
Being Anglican we desire to cultivate a disciplined rule of life for ordering our time and being disciples of Jesus.
- We strive to gather each Lord’s Day for corporate worship and Holy Communion.
- We strive to engage in daily common prayer.
- We strive to offer our lives unto God through various forms of private devotion, work, relationships and recreations.
- We recognize baptism as the initiatory rite of formal entrance into the church of Jesus Christ; and this rite shall be made available to all unbaptized persons, regardless of age or mental capacity.
- We invite and encourage all baptized persons in good standing with the church to participate in corporate worship and to receive holy communion.
- We acknowledge that baptized minor-children, though having become members of the church, remain under the authority of their parents (or familial guardians); and children shall worship with their families and be nurtured, catechized and protected through family involvement and oversight.
- We affirm that God created the world, out of nothing, in the space of six days, and that God has called mankind to cultivate the earth and to establish godly culture.
- We recognize Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, as the head of the church and King over the Kingdom of God.
- We affirm the Holy Scriptures to be the Word of God, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice for the church.
- We utilize historic biblical Christian liturgies for the worship of God and the offering of corporate prayer, and to aid us in the expression of Christian theology and the formation of Christian identity.
- We affirm that men and women are made in the image of God and that they have distinct and complimentary roles to fulfill in the family and church for the sake of the Kingdom of God. Furthermore, we affirm that "the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God".
- We recognize and honor the three separate, yet complimentary, general spheres of authority that God has ordained for human society and flourishing, namely the family, the church and the civil-government.
- We recognize that God, through Christ, has established the church as a Holy Nation, divided into culturally distinct congregations and nations throughout the world, and that God intends for all the nations of the world to eventually acknowledge and come under the rule of Jesus Christ, to be blessed and to express distinct and glorious Christian cultures, to the glory of God and benefit of all.
- We recognize the ten commandments as summarizing the moral law that God has revealed for humankind.
- We acknowledge that the following things are unrighteous, ungodly, sinful and personally harmful: sexual immorality, homosexual practice, adultery, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, greed, stealing, swindling, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; and we furthermore acknowledge that those who persist in such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God, and should not be permitted to remain in good standing membership within any congregation of Christ's church.
- We profess, practice and celebrate the grace of God in Christ, acknowledging that God provides forgiveness of sins for all who repent of their sins, believing on Christ and obeying the gospel.
- We affirm that repentance is a saving grace, whereby a sinner, out of a true sense of his sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth, with grief and hatred of his sin, turn from it unto God, with full purpose of, and endeavor after, new obedience.
- We affirm that the Holy Spirit empowers God's people for faith, repentance and good works in this world, and we acknowledge that the evidence of the Spirit is not only outward obedience to God's word, but also love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
- We utilize traditional English language Book of Common Prayer liturgies and historic psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in our services.
- We support and promote the ministry of biblically qualified and apostolically ordained male clergy.
- We recognize the various God-ordained ministries of all members, and encourage all to serve faithfully according to their various callings and competencies for the benefit of the church, family and society.
- We promote, encourage and support Christian education for the home and school.
- We practice Christian hospitality.
- We promote an optimistic eschatology (i.e. doctrine of end-times), remembering that Christ is actively ruling and reigning and placing all enemies under his feet as he brings the Kingdom of God to fulfillment.
- We endeavor together to always Proclaim Christ and to Pursue God's Kingdom.
