New Hope Community Church is a Christian Reformed church. We trace our spiritual heritage back to the Reformation and adhere to such timeless creeds as the Heidelberg Catechism.

To be "reformed" means that we believe the following:

That the Scriptures, (the Holy Bible) are the inerrant and infallible Word of God. We believe that the Scriptures constitute the entire revelation of God; that the Bible is complete and perfect, and that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, it is the way God speaks to his people today. In other words, His will for mankind is revealed through His written word, and the illumination of that word by the Holy Spirit in our hearts and minds.
That we are saved by grace alone. This means that even though we are undeserving of salvation, God in His infinite love and mercy has seen fit to bestow upon us His grace and to redeem us, to forgive us of our sins and to reconcile us into an eternal relationship with Him. We believe that this incredible salvation is a free gift of God and does not depend in any way on our own merit.
That we receive this gift throught faith alone. It is through the simple act of belief that God has "confounded the wise" of this world and brought about the salvation of those who will simply place their trust in Him. We place the accent on "faith alone." It is not faith, plus our own good works, it is not faith plus anything, but faith alone that leads us to an understanding of God's plan for our lives and his salvation of our souls.
That we are saved by Christ alone. Jesus said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." This means that "salvation is of the Lord," and of the Lord only. There is absolutely no other way. We believe that Jesus Christ was the divine Son of God, the Messiah who is at the same time fully God and fully man. We believe that Jesus was God incarnate, who out of his great love for us humiliated himself by taking on the nature of a human, placing himself under the Law. We believe that Jesus lived a perfect life without sin and that his death on the cross and resurrection from the dead was effective for the salvation of those who place their trust in him.
That God is one in essence and three in person: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is greater than the Son only in the sense that he is "unbegotten." The Son is eternally begotten of the Father. This does not mean there was a time when the Son "was not." It does not mean that the Son is a creature, created by the Father. We believe that the word begotten refers to the filial relationship between the Father and the Son. This means that the Father and the Son are equal in power, omniscience, and glory; both are infinite and eternal, both are completely and truly God. Likewise, the Holy Spirit is fully God and is co-equal with the Father and the Son. The evidence that the Holy Spirit is God was revealed through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Christ himself indicated the Spirit to be a co-equal person of the Godhead by stating that it was better for him to leave so the Spirit would come (John 14:15-18). The Holy Spirit remains as a gift to those who have been called by God (Acts 2: 38-39).