"We are beggars, telling other beggars where to find bread."
That's a fitting way to sum up the Christian life. When the reformer Martin Luther, died, his last reported words were, "We are beggars; this is true." As Christians, we believe that we are utterly dependent upon the grace of God for everything, and we praise God that He sent Jesus Christ as the Bread of Life to feed us by His grace.
Our Beliefs
At Bread of Life, we believe that the Bible is God's holy and perfect word and the ultimate authority for our faith. We believe that Jesus Christ is the Second Person of the Triune God, who came in human flesh, lived a perfect life, died on the cross to take the penalty for our sins, was resurrected after three days in victory over sin, death, and hell, and ascended into Heaven so that we might be given eternal life as a free gift. We believe that God saves us based on His grace alone through faith alone in Jesus. As Christians, we now respond to God's free gift of salvation with thankful lives of loving obedience.
As Christians, we believe the Bible alone is the ultimate source of authority in our faith, but a question every Christian has to answer is, "What does the Bible teach?" We believe that the message of the Bible is faithfully summarized in the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, as well as the Westminster Confession of Faith and its Longer and Shorter Catechisms. These robust and time-honored statements of faith help to shape how we as people can follow Jesus in the here and now of the modern world.​
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Bread of Life, is part of a wider body of churches called the "Orthodox Presbyterian Church," which started in 1936 in response to the mainline Presbyterian Church no longer requiring that ministers believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, the miracles of Christ, Christ's penal substitutionary atonement, Christ's physical resurrection, as well as other core doctrines of the Christian faith. We are called "Orthodox Presbyterians," because we hold to the historic truths of the Christian faith. When we say we're "Orthodox" we simply mean "Biblical"- not Eastern Orthodox. We are very committed to the doctrines of grace that were rediscovered during the Protestant Reformation.
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We would love to talk more with you about what we believe; please join us for worship or send us an email.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God."
Ephesians 2:8