Our distinctives

Christ Covenant Church holds to the historic Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) and the Heidelberg Catechism, the ecumenical creeds including Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed (381) and the definition of Chalcedon (381), and is robustly Calvinistic. We believe that the sovereignty of God is a precious and powerful truth, more than a mere theoretical doctrine but instead a truth in which to root our lives and fellowship.

Christ Covenant is not only Reformed but also Evangelical. We pray that God’s name will be praised by every tribe, tongue, people, and nation as the gospel of Jesus Christ is proclaimed worldwide. We labor to bring the nations into joyful worship of the Living God so that they can discover and glorify Christ as all in all. We are committed to Spirit-empowered proclamation of the gospel here in North Idaho, in North America, and throughout the world.

We see ourselves as standing on the shoulders of our fathers in the faith who have passed down a glorious gospel to us and as being connected to the true catholic church of Jesus Christ.

Worship is not centered on our feelings, proclivities, or tastes. Worship is centered on God and His glory. Accordingly, we worship through biblical forms and historical expressions that place the glory of the Triune God in the very center of our praise. Covenant renewal is a form of Christian worship in which our church corporately renews our covenant with God on the Lord’s Day. The liturgy is formed around the structure of biblical worship and sacrifice, and includes the following parts:

The church is a covenantal body, and the most basic unit of this covenant body is the family. At Christ Covenant, we encourage husbands and fathers to embrace their covenantal responsibility as heads of their homes and to nurture their wives and children as they grow in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. We encourage wives and mothers to submit joyfully to their husbands, to be workers at home, and to nurture their children in Christ. Moreover, children are taught to love the Lord their God, to obey their parents, and to seek God’s blessing upon themselves and their descendants. The local church should assist and equip parents for spiritual leadership in their homes but never replace them. Family worship is, we believe, a key to godly homes, and accordingly, we strongly emphasize that fathers lead their families in daily worship in the home.

Members of Christ Covenant come together under God to encourage one another to love God and each other, seeking to edify one another by using their gifts, assisting one another by providing for needs, and together serving the church and community at large. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). This is fundamental to our corporate witness before the world.

In faith, Christ Covenant seeks to provide an inheritance to our children’s children. This inheritance is spiritual, physical, financial, educational, economical, and experiential. We maintain a hopeful optimism concerning the kingdom of God, which asserts that Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords, and has been given all authority over the heavens and the earth. We, therefore, are called to go and disciple all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey all that Christ has commanded us. We do this in the expectation that every knee will bow to King Jesus.