FAQs

The Lord’s Supper is observed every Lord’s Day at King’s Covenant Church. We believe that all those all those who are baptized, including children, ought to come to the Lord's Table. All those who are part of the Covenant Community, initiated through baptism, ought to eat the Covenant Meal. Therefore we disciple our congregation that, by eating the Bread and drinking the Wine, you are acknowledging that you are a sinner, without hope except upon the sovereign mercy of God, and that you are trusting in Jesus Christ alone for salvation. So, by participating with us, you are communicating to us that you are in Covenant with God, being active in a congregation who are covenantally bound to the Triune God through Word and Sacrament. If you have any doubt about your participation, please speak to the Elders before or after the service. Since the Elders of King’s Covenant Church are responsible for the table, when a baptized child begins taking the Lord’s Supper, we ask a parent to notify one of the Elders. 

This is a very common objection we receive. By it, people mean that our worship looks too much like the Roman Catholic Church. But, the objection confuses the form rather than the substance of the thing. A liturgy is just the order of how the Lord’s Day is done. All churches have a liturgy: there are things that happen before the sermon and after. The question is not whether but what. Therefore, we believe that a liturgy ought to be biblically rooted. We are convictionally Reformed and Always Reforming to the word of God. Covenant Renewal Worship is based on Biblical patterns. Worship is dialogical in nature. God call us to worship Him, so we come. We confess our sins to Him, He pardons us. He speaks to us when the word is rightly preached, we are consecrated through His word. He calls us to sit at His table, and we commune with Him and one another. He commissions us to go out, obey His commands, and proclaim Him to the world. It is this pattern by which we renew Covenant with God, reorientating ourselves to His Covenant Promises through the Means of Grace: Word and Sacrament; not a Magisterium or perpetual re-sacrificing of Jesus. Lastly, we ought not do things based on whether or not the Papists do it or not, but whether or not it is warranted in Scripture. Being “anti-Catholic” is not the grounding for how the Lord’s Day ought to be ordered, but God’s inspired, inerrant word.

We believe that the Holy Spirit works in and among His people, according to His good pleasure, particularly when they gather together, devoting themselves to God in Word and Sacrament. Spontaneity often does not  equate to spirituality, but rather continually returning to the same patterns over and over again, like a person returning to a well. If this were not the case, why teach and engage in the Spiritual Disciplines (or Habits of Grace)? Therefore, it is not a less Spirit-guided prayer if a man diligently labors the day before to write a prayer that will be appropriate to a particular part of corporate worship, for a particular people, trusting God to guide him in what he needs to say and pray for his people ahead of time. In fact, it would seem that the person insisting on spontaneous prayers as being more Spirit-filled is the one, in practice, limiting the work of the Holy Spirit. The same principle applies to corporate readings and responses during worship.  The pastor and elders work hard to prepare the spoken and sung elements of worship so that they accurately reflect the teachings of God’s Word and are appropriate to the various segments of the Lord’s Day Service. The words of the leader and the congregational responses are drawn from the Scriptures, so that the congregation is worshipping God with language that God has given to his people. If Jesus is truly the Word of God, and man is designed to think God’s thoughts after Him, and worship Him in Spirit and in Truth (see John 4:23, 24), then it is most appropriate for God’s people to use the language of the Scriptures as much as possible during the Lord’s Day Service.

While we fully believe and teach that children are to be baptized as a Covenant Member, and ought to recieve Communion as a Covenant Member, we understand that many are not at the same theological conviction as we are. Therefore, we will not force our members or vistors to go against their conscience. If you believe that baptism is only for believers, we will gladly baptize your children upon their confession of faith. Likewise, when you feel they are ready, then we will gladly give them Communion as well. While we do hold to upholding conscience, we also maintain our right to brotherly debate these points of view.