Welcome to our parish

As an orthodox Anglican congregation, New Creation Church Anglican is committed to faithfully carrying out the mission Jesus Christ has given to his church: to proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins, that is the law and the gospel, (Luke 24:45-49) through the ministry of Word and Sacrament. 

The mission should never be confused with or diminished by our own temporal priorities, however well-intentioned they may appear to us; our own pragmatic methods to add to Christ means of grace; or our own desire to conform to the spirit of the age; lest the world, the flesh, and the devil silence the words of eternal like (Luke 8:1-15). Accordingly, we are a church that is: 

Like other churches of the Reformation, we understand the Holy Scriptures to be the final inerrant authority for all doctrine and practice in the church. Committed to Biblical orthodoxy, all that we believe, teach, and confess is grounded in the proper distinction between the Law and the Gospel. Therefore, we are unashamed to preach the fullness of God’s Law and we are bold to preach Christ crucified for sinners! 

We gather to receive Christ’s gracious gifts for His Family the church through the ordinary physical means of the external Word of the Holy Scriptures, the pure gospel of Holy Absolution, and the Sacraments of Holy Baptism and Holy Communion. In these means of grace, we have Christ’s certain promise that the power of the Holy Spirit is alive and active to create, strengthen, and confirm our faith through this transitory life and to deliver to us the forgiveness of sins. In them we are assured of the Father’s favor and goodness towards us, that we are living members incorporated into the mystical body of Jesus Christ, the blessed company of all faithful people, and are also heirs through hope of Christ’s everlasting kingdom!

Like the early church we affirm the principle of “lex orandi, lex credendi”, which means that what a church does on a Sunday morning not only reveals what they believe about God, but it also forms the beliefs and practices of those who attend. As orthodox Anglicans, we worship using ancient liturgies, prayers, and cycles saturated with Holy Scripture and rooted in the early church as well as the best of 2000 years of sacred music so that the Word of Christ may dwell in us richly as we join in worship with His redeemed from every generation. Our worship extols godly and decent order,(4) beauty, and truth in contrast to the sin and chaos, banal sterility, and hypocrisy of our fallen world. Through our worship we enact the drama of redemptive history and tell anew our family story.

Every Christian has a confession; as orthodox Anglicans we believe it is important that a Christian’s confession be explicit to ensure that it is biblical. Thus, our confessions are intentionally Ancient, Catholic, and Biblical. We look to the early church as a benchmark to inform our understanding of the apostolic faith given to us in Holy Scripture rather than following the latest spiritual fads or bestsellers. We confess the historic faith of the undivided church as declared in the three Catholic Creeds: the

Apostles’, the Nicene, and the Athanasian. And we subscribe with a good conscience to the Anglican formularies of the Reformation; including the Book of Common Prayer 1662, the Ordinal attached to the same, and Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion 1571; as clear and accurate summaries of the Christian doctrine and life found in Holy Scripture, containing in them nothing contrary to it. 

Our faith centers on the sinless life, saving death, and glorious resurrection of Jesus Christ for the full pardon and remission of all our sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life eternal. By this Gospel we have been redeemed from sin, death, and the devil by grace alone, through faith alone, on account of the finished work of Christ alone. Thus, we believe that our paramount mission here is to proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins to all nations through the Spirit-powered Word and Sacrament ministry Christ has given to His church. It is from the font, the pulpit, and the altar that the kingdom of God is realized in the world. By this Gospel we have also been united to Christ our Savior in a new life of faith and obedience. Here we by daily repentance drown the Old Adam putting to death the deeds of the flesh and by faith turn to trust anew in the sufficiency of Christ to forgive all our sins and to delight in the commandments of God so that we love and serve our neighbors according to them.

(1) Following the command of our Lord in St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians 14:40, we are instructed in the introduction to the Book of Common Prayer 1662 to “let all things be done decently and in order” in the worship of Christ’s church.