Christ Reformed Presbyterian Church

05/28/2025

Q. 64. What is the invisible church?
A. The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ the head.p

(p) Eph 1:10; Eph 1:22-23; John 10:16; John 11:52; Eph 5:23,27,32

05/24/2025

05/21/2025

Q. 63. What are the special privileges of the visible church?
A. The visible church hath the privilege of being under God's special care and government;k of being protected and preserved in all ages, notwithstanding the opposition of all enemies;l and of enjoying the communion of saints, the ordinary means of salvation,m and offers of grace by Christ to all the members of it in the ministry of the gospel, testifying, that whosoever believes in him shall be saved,n and excluding none that will come unto him.o

(k) Isa 4:5-6; 1 Tim 4:10; Eph 4:11-13
(l) Ps 115:1-2,9; Isa 31:4-5; Zech 12:2-4,8-9; Matt 16:18
(m) Acts 2:39,42; Matt 28:19-20; 1 Cor 12:12-13
(N ) Ps 147:19-20; Rom 9:4; Eph 4:11-12; Acts 22:16; Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32; Rom 10:10-13,17
(o) Matt 11:28-29; John 6:37

05/14/2025

Q. 62. What is the visible church?
A. The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the world do profess the true religion,h and of their children.i

(h) 1 Cor 1:2; 1 Cor 12:13; Rom 15:9-12; Rev 7:9; Ps 2:8; Ps 22:27-31; Ps 45:17; Matt 28:19-20; Isa 59:21
(i) 1 Cor 7:14; Acts 2:39; Rom 11:16; Gen 17:7

05/07/2025

Q. 61. Are all they saved who hear the gospel, and live in the church?
A. All that hear the gospel, and live in the visible church, are not saved; but they only who are true members of the church invisible.g

(g) John 12:38-40; Rom 9:6; Matt 22:14; Matt 7:21; Rom 11:7; 1 Cor 10:2-5

05/04/2025

“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”‭‭. I Corinthians‬ ‭7‬:‭14‬ … baptism done biblically is such a beautiful and moving thing. What a special moment God has created.

12/29/2024

Q. 60. Can they who have never heard the gospel, and so know not Jesus Christ, nor believe in him, be saved by their living according to the light of nature?
A. They who, having never heard the gospel,z know not Jesus Christ,a and believe not in him, cannot be saved,b be they never so diligent to frame their lives according to the light of nature,c or the laws of that religion which they profess;d neither is there salvation in any other, but in Christ alone,e who is the Savior only of his body the church.f

(z) Rom 10:14
(a) 2 Thess 1:8-9; Eph 2:12; John 1:10-12
(b) John 8:24; John 3:18
(c) 1 Cor 1:20-24
(d) John 4:22; Rom 9:31-32; Phil 3:4-9
(e) Acts 4:12
(f) Eph 5:23