Sadly, in our radically individualistic age, the family has been undermined from without and from within. Many have sought to undermine our modern culture’s individualistic impulse through various collectivist schemes. Sadly, these schemes not only destroy individualism, but they destroy all other mediating institutions, the family included.  Neither radically autonomous individualism nor collectivistic statism is biblical. Both views undermine the biblical concept of covenantal sphere sovereignty. No individual exists as an island unto themselves; we all exist as individuals born, by God’s grace, into specific families.  We firmly believe the church must respond to our confused age, not by becoming collectivists or libertines but by becoming more consistently and biblically covenantal in our faith and practice.

The local church can rightly be considered a family of families covenanted together under Christ. It is the local embodiment of the one visible covenant community across all of history. For this reason, we seek to keep households together in the life of the church, encouraging and respecting the authority of the husband/father as covenantal head over his family. For this reason, we practice family-integrated worship. This means we believe the family should stay together and participate in the entirety of corporate worship.

Furthermore, we believe families should act as a unit within the body. As such, we believe heads of households should vote on behalf of their families when needed.

Additionally, sharing a fellowship meal after corporate worship each week is integral to our congregation acting as a family of families.